La Traversée likes stories of the turning point, those moments when you leave a mapped out road for another, more uncertain and more alive. Domitille Kiger's starts with a risky choice she owns, and leads to an idea that speaks to any organization: risk taking becomes possible the moment you know how to fall. That is exactly the line of her keynote “De l'Audace”.
La Traversée · Domitille Kiger
Daring to leave the familiar
Her first big crossing, she says, was a choice: leaving life in Paris, her studies and a career that could have been mapped out, to travel the world and jump from a plane. A bet on the unknown, a risk she has never regretted. That is the first lesson of the episode: the crossings that count almost always start with the decision to trade a certainty for a possibility.
Falling with style
The title is not just a nice turn of phrase. Domitille jokes by quoting Toy Story: in skydiving, you do not really fly, you fall with style. And falling can be learned. The very first thing taught is a position, flat, belly to earth, the only one from which you can deploy your canopy with confidence. In other words, the fall is not the accident you dread, it is a phase with its own technique and its right posture. Seen that way, falling stops being a failure and becomes a skill.
Trust in your ability to get back up
This is the transferable core of the episode. Domitille does not claim her path was free of trials or hard moments. What she describes is something else: every time, she kept trust in her ability to get back up. That trust is not the promise of never falling, it is the certainty of having the resources to start again. For a team as much as for a leader, that is what changes everything: you dare more when you know a fall will not be the end of the story.
Taking the risk because you know you can bounce back
The two ideas meet. If Domitille owns a career without the safety of a salaried job, it is not out of a taste for danger, it is because her resilience makes the risk bearable. You find the mechanism of “De l'Audace” here: telling the risks that destroy from the ones that make you grow, taking on the second kind, and knowing you will absorb the falls they involve. Resilience is not the opposite of caution, it is what makes daring possible.
- Risk taking built on resilience : daring, because you know you can get back up.
- Falling seen as a skill to master, not as a failure to run from.
- Trust in your ability to bounce back, more useful than the illusion of never falling.
- The courage of a choice that steps out of comfort, owned without regret.
This episode illustrates one of the five topics of the “De l'Audace” keynote: Risk taking in business →