Balance ton héroïne explores the paths of women. Domitille Kiger's runs through the highest world level of freefly, an artistic discipline where you fly in teams of three. But the episode quickly moves past the portrait: it shows a leader who, faced with an imbalance, chose to build a solution rather than note the problem. That is also what her keynote carries “De l'Audace”: performing together assumes you first create the conditions for performance.
Balance ton héroïne · Domitille Kiger
Creating the frame that was missing
For a long time, in world records, Domitille saw women given fewer opportunities than men. They were sometimes judged in advance, suspected of cracking under pressure, and therefore kept out of the big attempts. Rather than accommodate that, she put herself into organizing women's world records: a frame where they could progress technically, build confidence, then go back to performing in mixed contexts. The leadership lesson is clear and transferable: you do not get a group's performance by excluding people on assumptions, but by building the conditions where everyone can show what they are worth.
Taking a collective to afeat, under pressure
What she puts forward most in keynotes is those large formation records: bringing a group together and taking it to a demanding feat achieved together, in a tense environment. Leading, here, is not pushing harder, it is orchestrating. Supervising, training, coordinating, so that at the decisive moment everyone holds their role. The result is never the work of one individual, it is that of a prepared collective.
Putting risk on the scale
The podcast title lands well, because Domitille weighs things. She refuses the race for intensity and owns a clear calculation: when she puts on the scale what skydiving gives her, this life, this freedom, this career, against a moderate statistical risk, it is worth it. BASE jumping, where the danger becomes vital, does not pass the same test. That is exactly the mechanism of “De l'Audace”: telling the risks that destroy from the risks that propel, and taking on only the second kind.
- Conditions created so that everyone progresses, rather than exclusions based on assumptions.
- Confidence that gets built in a protected frame, before performing on demanding ground.
- A collective taken to a feat under pressure, with no race for intensity.
- A relationship to risk that is owned: knowing what is worth it, and what is not.
This episode illustrates one of the five topics of the “De l'Audace” keynote: Leadership under pressure →