Social Entrepreneur’s Profile

Christophe Dunand

Réalise 

For more than 30 years, Réalise has been demonstrating that an innovative model based on vocational training through practice can transform the career paths of people with few or no qualifications and change the mechanisms of the labour market so that they become more sustainable. 

The mission of the social enterprise before Corona:

Christophe Dunand has changed the way the Swiss social sector operates – making it more collaborative, bottom-up and oriented toward changemaking. He has introduced a nation-wide approach to connect some of the most excluded people (long-term unemployed and socially disenfranchised persons) to the labor market by addressing the challenges created by the Swiss government’s highly local regulation and control, demonstrating the power of innovation and experimentation to address social challenges, and building multi-sector networks across traditional siloes. Christophe’s architecture of the Swiss social sector has resulted in the federation and professionalization of social organizations, the establishment of the social enterprise as a viable structure, and the engagement of all sectors of Swiss society in driving change.