Association

The founder

Didier Chauffaille founded Benvivo to make kindness, respect for the living world, and cooperation concrete drivers of change for individuals, organizations, and territories.

Why Benvivo?

Benvivo is the culmination of a commitment to well-being, better living, and a future that is more respectful of the living world.

His journey is grounded in a humanist vision of work and organizations: setting a clear direction, supporting human fulfilment, and placing performance within respect for the living world, ethics, and the long term.

BENVIVO kindness, cooperation, living world
The culmination of a commitment

Benvivo, a humanist project for sustainable better living together.

Created in Pau in 2021, the Benvivo association, joined in 2024 by the Benvivo endowment fund, works to awaken the awareness of today’s and tomorrow’s leaders and decision-makers.

Its ambition is to create harmony around management and governance, promote kindness as an essential factor of performance, and develop sustainable better living together within organizations and territories.

Benvivo’s missions

Awaken, connect, and transform.

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Awakening awareness

Benvivo raises awareness among leaders and decision-makers about health, quality of work life, and respect for the natural environment at territorial level.

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Creating lasting harmony

The association works on management and governance to develop sustainable better living together across every form of organization.

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Making kindness a driver

Benvivo promotes kindness as an essential factor of performance and aligns its actions with the Sustainable Development Goals.

2019
The birth of Benvivo

An award, followed by the determination to turn a conviction into a collective project.

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.

This ambition took shape with the creation of the Benvivo association in 2021, followed by the Benvivo endowment fund in 2024. The project connects leaders, organizations, and territories around a deeply humanist vision.

The founder’s words

Listen to Didier Chauffaille present his vision of kindness and better living together.

This video gives direct space to his voice: his vision of respect for the living world, cooperation, ethics, gratitude, and the transformation of organizations and territories.

Milestones

From personal commitment to the creation of a collective project.

Entrepreneurs d’avenir

He joined this national network dedicated to ethics, human values, and a more responsible way of doing business.

Kind Leader Award

This distinction, received at Préventica, sparked the desire to create a project entirely dedicated to kindness.

Creation of the Benvivo association

In Pau, Benvivo became a collective project designed to raise awareness and promote sustainable better living together.

Creation of the Benvivo endowment fund

The endowment fund strengthens the project’s ability to support humanist actions aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

SDG Pioneer — SME category

He received the National SDG Pioneers Award, a distinction organized by the UN Global Compact France network.

Observatoire de l’immatériel

He continued his commitment to intangible value, responsibility, and the sustainable transformation of organizations.

Commitments and research

A journey at the crossroads of social responsibility, territories, and research.

ELANOVA Polymeris ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine IDESO Entrepreneurs d’avenir Pacte mondial de l’ONU Observatoire de l’immatériel ISO 26000 ODD

A pioneer of CSR, Didier Chauffaille became involved early in reflections on the ISO 26000 standard with the French Ministry of Labour and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region. Since 2009, his journey has included networks dedicated to ethics, social responsibility, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

His commitments extend through Entrepreneurs d’Avenir, IDESO, the UN Global Compact France network, the Observatoire de l’immatériel, ELANOVA, ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and Polymeris. He is also pursuing doctoral research at LIREM/UPPA on kindness and sustainability across individuals, organizations, and territories.

Articles & press releases

Learn more about Didier Chauffaille, his commitments, and Benvivo.

A selection of public resources connected to his journey, awards, and the birth of Benvivo.

Continue the movement

The 40 Recommendations extend this vision into concrete paths.

They extend the Benvivo spirit through 40 reproducible actions across ecology, society, the economy, and health.

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