IORIGIN — Between worlds

Paris, France · 48.85° N

• Sciences Po Paris — Master's, political science & business law, 2010–2016. Cum laude.
• La Sorbonne — M.Phil, philosophy of science & technology, 2010–2014. Magna cum laude. Where the transhumanism thread begins.
• University of Pittsburgh — exchange year, 2012–2013. Philosophy of science. GPA 4.0. The first American chapter.
• ThinkH+ — founded 2015: “the first think tank on augmented humanity.” Law, ethics & regulation of transhumanism; chief editor of its review, Brainstorm.

IITHE ADVOCATE — The letter of the law

Philadelphia — University of Pennsylvania

• Licensed to practice law in France — CAPA, 2018. Called to the French bar.
• LL.M., Penn Carey Law, 2018–2019 — as a Fulbright Scholar. Wharton executive-leadership coursework · Penn-Wharton Innovation Award, 2019.
• Published in Dalloz, 2018. “Le déséquilibre significatif dans les contrats commerciaux : nouvel outil de lutte contre les GAFA” — AJ Contrat.

IIITHE PEACEMAKER — Both sides of the table

Philadelphia courts → Paris Court of Appeal

• Negotiation under Stuart Diamond (Getting More) · mediation practice at the Philadelphia courts.
• MCR GROUPE — Chief Learning Officer & negotiation coach, 2019–2022. Advising companies and individuals through sensitive deals.
• Four hours. A $1,500 dispute, two years in court — mediated and settled in four hours: “and we made them friends again.”
• The long game. A year of patient, honest conversations helping someone in grief accept professional help. His proudest work.
• Mediator, Paris Court of Appeal — 2024 to now. Court-appointed peacemaking, for real stakes.

“Negotiation is to human interactions what mathematics is to science: its language.”

Stuart Diamond — Getting More

IVTHE BUILDER — The modern scribe

Paris — OpenAI Forum · Wharton AI Studio · Scalefree

• OpenAI Forum Paris Leader — 2025–2026.
• Board member, Wharton Alumni AI Studio — designing AI tools for mental health.
• Business intelligence consultant — Scalefree. Data modeling by day, agentic AI systems by night.
• Built: Octalysis Explorer · Data Vault Foundations (14 interactive chapters) · Wharton AI Use-Case Repository (77 cases) · Active Listening AI · Easy Local LLM.

“Learn to wield AI, not fear it.”

Lorenzo Colombani

VTHE GAME MASTER — Serious things, the fun way

Paris — Make Working Fun SAS

• Founded Make Working Fun SAS, 2022–2026. “Learn serious things the fun way.” Gamified training, AI tools, mental-health tools, audio stories.
• LifeQuest — a Skyrim-style quest journal for real life. Quests, XP, and all — plus quest-shortcuts and a Skyrim quest journal for the terminally organized.
• “What It Feels Like” — an idle game that teaches empathy for depression.
• Professor — ESCP Business School, 2022–2023. Teaching law and international law.

VITHE STORYTELLER — In his own words

Medium · Dalloz · SoundCloud

• Aristotle Was a Data Engineer
• AI Detection Tools Are Astrology for Academics
• Is AI Intelligent? Descartes Answered, 4 Centuries Ago
• The Sound of a Dead Language
• When AI Assistants Play Dirty
• “Responsabilité sociale des entreprises” — Revue Française de Gestion, 2017
• “Why Is France So Conflictive?” — Penn independent study, supervised by Stuart Diamond
• Audio stories: “What Is It Like to Be French?” (Socrates in Paris) · “Mr. Howard C. on AI & Descartes”

VIIASSEMBLY — Seven trades. One person.

Paris — now

Certified Lawyer · Mediator · Negotiator · AI Builder · Business Intelligence Consultant · Writer · Teacher — all practiced at once. A dispute to defuse, a deal to close, a system to ship: the interesting work starts with a conversation.

“People do not expect you to be like them — they expect you to be yourself, and be authentic.”

Lorenzo Colombani · Mediators Beyond Borders interview