Preserving resources
In an industrial environment, his ecological commitment translates into strong attention to water, waste reduction, and organized waste sorting.
Association
The founder
Didier Chauffaille carries a simple belief: business can be a place of performance, transmission, ecology, and human fulfillment.
Why Benvivo?
Because a company only truly transforms when it cares for what makes it alive.
Didier Chauffaille’s journey is not only a succession of roles, awards, and responsibilities. It tells a way of leading: demanding, human, grounded in reality, attentive to people as well as resources.
EMAC
industry, territory, transition
A field of experience
At EMAC, his ideas take the shape of concrete action.
As CEO of EMAC, a French leader in custom rubber compounds based in the Basque Country, Didier Chauffaille turned an industrial company into a place of experimentation for ecological, human, and managerial transition.
This story gives Benvivo its credibility: kindness is not merely declared, it is practiced inside organizations, factories, decisions, transitions, and long-term choices.
What he did differently
Concrete proof, not only convictions.
Giving teams a voice
His collaborative management approach seeks to involve people in decisions, recognize their experience, and support both health and quality of work life.
Transmitting sustainably
His vision of governance is built for the long term: preserving local roots, independence, jobs, and the human continuity of the company.
2019
The origin of the summit
An award, a meeting, then the desire to create Benvivo.
In 2019, Didier Chauffaille received the Kind Leader Award at the national Préventica trade show. On this occasion, he met Jean-Ange Lallican, founder of the France Solidaire et Bienveillante movement and events around kindness, including OhHappyBreizh.
From this meeting emerged the desire to create Benvivo: a space to connect leaders, organizations, territories, and people who want to make kindness a force for action.
The founder’s words
Listen to Didier Chauffaille explain why performance needs humanity.
This video gives direct space to his voice: his vision of business, transmission, responsibility, and kindness as a lever for transformation.
Milestones
A journey committed to CSR, quality of work life, and transitions.
Entrepreneurs d’avenir
He joined this national association focused on ethics, human values, and another way of doing business.
Aquitaine CSR SME Award
EMAC received the Aquitaine CSR SME Award, recognizing a responsible approach within an industrial company.
Kind Leader Award
At the national Préventica trade show, this distinction highlighted his approach to more human leadership.
Presidency of IDESO
He was elected president of IDESO, an association based in Pau dedicated to intangible value within industrial companies in Southwestern France.
SDG Pioneer — SME category
In October 2024, he received the National SDG Pioneers Award, SME category, organized by the United Nations Global Compact.
Institutional commitments
A leader connected to territories, industries, and transitions.
ELANOVA
Polymeris
ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine
IDESO
Entrepreneurs d’avenir
Résonance SQVT
ISO 26000
Lean
His interest in social responsibility and collaborative management led him to be consulted by the French Ministry of Labour and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region. He took part in reflections around corporate social responsibility, in the early days of ISO 26000, and became involved in Health and Quality of Work Life networks.
He is also a board member and Co-President of the Sustainable Development Commission at ELANOVA, a bureau member of Polymeris, and a member of the Executive Board of ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Articles & press releases
Go further on Didier Chauffaille, EMAC, and Benvivo.
A selection of public resources connected to his journey, awards, and the birth of Benvivo.
SDG Pioneers — UN Global Compact France
Open resource2024 SDG Awards and SDG Pioneers laureates
Open resourcePress release — 2024 SDG Awards
Open resourceDidier Chauffaille, EMAC, SDG Pioneer
Open resourcePioneer: Didier Chauffaille laureate of the UN Global Compact
Open resourceBenvivo: economy, ecology, CSR and kindness
Open resourceKindness takes shape in Pau
Open resourceSDG Awards and SDG Pioneers laureates
Open resource
Continue the movement
The 40 Recommendations extend this vision into concrete paths.
They translate the Benvivo spirit into simple ideas to change organizational culture: leading differently, cooperating differently, transmitting differently.