Some passions stay hobbies, and others redraw an entire life. Domitille Kiger's freefly belongs to the second category. This light episode, built around the crush, says something at bottom that is very useful to organizations: lasting commitment cannot be decreed, it comes from wanting to. That is also one of the convictions of her keynote “De l'Audace”.
Crush · Domitille Kiger
The crush that changed everything
One summer, her mother suggests she try a new activity. It turns out to be skydiving, then very quickly freefly, the artistic discipline where you fly in teams of three, judged on technique, execution and the creativity of the choreography. Domitille falls for the movement, the sensations and the community that comes with it. What could have stayed an experience would become a way of life, then a career as a world champion.
Committing because you want to, not because you have to
This is where the episode meets the corporate world. Domitille has a simple conviction about desire: you do not impose it, you cultivate it. She speaks of it in terms of passing things on, the image of seeds you plant that, when the time comes, grow on their own. The idea holds for any team: the most solid commitment is not the one you obtain through constraint, it is the one that comes from wanting to, when each person moves because they found their own reason to.
From personal passion to collective performance
That individual crush, Domitille turned into elite team performance, then into material for keynotes on leadership and daring. The loop is coherent: a passion lived fully gives the energy to push past your limits, and that energy becomes contagious for a collective. Performing together, the promise of “De l'Audace”, often starts with a sincere desire someone knew how to grow.
- Lasting commitment comes from wanting to, not from constraint.
- Cultivating desire rather than imposing it, so that each person moves on their own.
- A personal passion turned into elite collective performance.
This episode illustrates one of the five topics of the “De l'Audace” keynote: Employee engagement →