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From Fabric to Common Ground

Building on Fabric. Becoming Common Ground.

Since 2018, Fabric has helped teams put collective intelligence into practice. Its historical track record spans over 1,000 projects with more than 70 client organisations and entities.

Common Ground builds on this experience with a clearer offer around alignment, decision-making and adaptive organisation. We combine structured methods with close attention to human dynamics, helping leadership teams work through strategic and organisational challenges while attending to the people involved.

During 2025 and 2026, we have deepened our practice and explored new methods, including AI that listens and contributes during facilitated conversations. This helps groups examine blind spots, consider new possibilities and move towards action, with people keeping the judgement and decisions.

Collective intelligence remains at the heart of our work. Through internal facilitators, coaching and practical team methods, we help organisations spread these skills and ways of working across all levels.

Common Ground expresses what we help create: shared understanding and a foundation for acting together.

The brand is evolving; the legal company remains Fabric.

Fabric's track record

projects
1,000+projects
client organisations and entities
70+client organisations and entities

Senior practitioners

Portrait of Mickaël Drouard

Mickaël Drouard

Co-founder

Co-founder of Fabric, now leading its next chapter as Common Ground, Mickaël helps leadership teams turn collective intelligence and empowerment into daily organisational practice. He works across strategic alignment, decision-making and adaptive governance, combining organisational design with attention to human dynamics. He co-authored Adaptive Governance (Pearson, 2021, French edition) and hosts the podcast Pyramid to Circles. His international career includes Scandinavia, Switzerland, China, France and Belgium.

Portrait of Eric-Axel Zimmer

Eric-Axel Zimmer

Co-founder

Axel is an organisational development consultant who designs and leads collaborative processes to help organisations adapt. His approach combines design thinking, collective intelligence and methods inspired by Holacracy to address operational challenges while working with group dynamics. His international experience and Canadian, Belgian and American background inform his approach to collaboration.

Our senior practitioners are supported by a network of experienced consultants and facilitators, brought together for each engagement.

Selected organisations we have worked with

  • Orange
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Mobius Executive Leadership
  • Inner Development Goals Foundation
  • Bayer
  • Ipsen
  • Total
  • SNCF
  • Sanofi
  • EDF
  • Volvo Trucks
  • Axa
  • ENGIE
  • Dior
  • European Commission

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