His story

Co-founder and CEO of Humanava, Arnaud Collery is a speaker and coach. He works on leadership, team engagement and public speaking, through keynotes and interactive workshops.

After 20 years abroad, between Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Cape Town, he settled in Bordeaux in 2020. He founded Stand Up For Passion and co-founded Humanava, which supports managers and teams.

2026.

Humanava launches the pilot of its AI management simulation and is selected for CxSeed, an accelerator created by Classera and Super Charger Ventures. Arnaud travels to Saudi Arabia.

With Lilarious (Montreux Comedy), he runs a one-day confidence workshop for job seekers for France Travail, then casts and coaches Histoires de Dingues, a show in the Stand Up For Passion format presented during the festival. The partnership with LinkedIn Learning continues.

2025.

He completes a one-year team program with Decathlon and a training program for women in Tunisia with GIZ. Speaker at Touch Summit in Georgia.

2024.

Team program with Decathlon and training with GIZ in Tunisia. Public speaking training for UNHCR. One-man show The Art of Not Being a Hero at Le République theatre in Paris. Stand Up For Passion returns to New York with Thomas Pesquet.

2023.

Coach in residence at Club Med. Start of the partnership with LinkedIn Learning, producing leadership courses. Speaker at Dublin Tech Summit.

2022.

His book Réinventez votre vie is published (Éditions IDEO, in French). Talk at the Misk Global Forum on finding an authentic voice as a leader. Humanava receives the Bourse French Tech and films its video masterclasses.

2021.

Launch of Humanava. During the pandemic, Arnaud is coach in residence at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux.

In June, he hosts and speaks at VivaTech on wellbeing and technology (watch here), and is ambassador for the Vivre l’Entreprise trade show.

In May, Les Echos covers the launch of Humanava and its video masterclasses (read the article). In April, BSmart features the launch of Humanava, co-founded by Arnaud Collery and his wife Janet Nakano.

2020.

Arnaud Collery moves back to France, to Bordeaux, after 20 years abroad. He is ambassador of the quality-of-work-life show in Deauville and speaks on happiness at work at the VarUp 2020 entrepreneurs’ show.
2019.

In Geneva, Arnaud hosts, produces, casts and coaches the 25th Stand Up For Passion worldwide, at the UN High Commissioner, on diversity and inclusion. He runs a team-building session for UNICEF in Iran. He produces AI and Happiness, a Stand Up For Passion event at Google New York, then an event in Aruba for the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals.
2018.

Arnaud speaks at The World Happiness Summit in Miami. In April, he publishes “Mister Happiness” with Larousse (in French).
2017.

He hosts the French Tech World in New York City. He produces his fourth event at the French Consulate in New York, with 7 stories of inspiring women.
2016.

On the TEDx stage for the third time, Arnaud speaks at TEDx Maastricht. He is also coach and host for TEDx Champs-Élysées Women and coach for TEDx Monaco.
2015.

Arnaud speaks at TEDx Aruba and appears on BFM TV for the first time (he will return about a dozen times). He runs his first coaching sessions on happiness at work for Cartier, Chanel and Dior.
2014.

Arnaud launches Stand Up For Passion in New York City, a coaching and inspiring-events company. Between 2014 and 2020, he produced 25 Stand Up For Passion events around the world.
2013.

In Cape Town, he is entrepreneur in residence at 88mph, Africa’s first tech accelerator. He spends December with a tribe in Ecuador.
2012.

Arnaud wins an award as actor and director: Little Klaus Big World, best comedy at a charity film festival in Monaco, a film he shot over two years.
2011.

Arnaud volunteers in a village in Tanzania, teaching theater. This is where he discovers the power of storytelling.
2010.

He launches his third project in Japan, French Tuesday, as director, and spends a year organizing some of Tokyo’s best parties with top DJs.
2009.

Arnaud spends a year in China on a scholarship from the Chinese government and the European Commission.
2004 - 2009.

Arnaud is an actor and stand-up comedian in Hollywood. As a comedian, he performs at the Comedy Store, the Laugh Factory and The Improv, and on MTV, E! and NBC’s Last Comic Standing (quarter-finalist). As an actor, he appears in independent films, in series such as Gilmore Girls and in an international Mercedes commercial directed by Tony Kaye.
2001 - 2003.

Arnaud is head of investor relations at CFB Communication, Euronext’s communication arm in Paris.
2000.

Arnaud is a TV host on CNEWS.
Education

Finance and business; internships in Brussels with MEP Thierry Jean-Pierre, and finance internships in New York and Paris.
Studies

Arnaud spent a year in a US high school, then a year at a Japanese university.
Arnaud Collery

From his birth in Reims to 20 years abroad, Arnaud came back to France, to Bordeaux, to create Humanava, which supports managers and teams.