No managers, no meetings, no problem

Do you spend your day in meetings? Is it possible to build a successful, regulated, and rapidly growing company by challenging traditional management hierarchies and rituals? Alan is a health insurance company serving over 30,000 businesses and 1 million members in France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. What truly sets us apart is that we've grown to over 700 employees without traditional managers and with virtually no recurring meetings. This model, our competitive advantage, is how we run a large-scale, regulated insurance company every day. In this presentation, I'll take you to the heart of this radical model and share: The traditional hierarchy-free organization: How we replaced managers with coaches and separated operational leadership from individual development. The written and asynchronous culture: How decisions are made transparently in Slack, GitHub, and Notion, not in conference rooms. Distributed Ownership: How 700 people set their own goals and hold each other accountable without top-down control. The Systems That Enable Scalability: The rituals and mechanisms that make this model work day-to-day. Our Lessons Learned: What we did wrong, what we're still perfecting, and why this model isn't for everyone. This presentation will share the honest truth—what works, what doesn't—and offer concrete principles you can apply to your own organization to gain speed and transparency.