ABOUT
Inès Duckit
A journey, a voice, a trajectory.
I was born in Guatemala, in a country marked by thirty-six years of civil war. I grew up in France, adopted, with that particular feeling of having had to build myself between several stories, several silences, and several ways of being seen.
For a long time, I believed I had to understand the rules in order to find my place. So I studied international law, then marketing and advertising. I worked in major groups – TF1, WPP, GrandVision, Legrand – where I learned how narratives are built, how decisions are made, and why some voices remain absent for far too long from the places where they should matter.
At 31, I began my transition.
Not as a break from my professional life, but as a way of finally inhabiting it fully. By becoming a visible trans woman in the corporate world, I came to understand something essential: the issue is not only the place given to people. Very often, the issue lies in the frameworks themselves, when they force certain lives to shrink, to justify themselves, or to remain outside.
People talk a lot about inclusion. I sometimes use this word because organisations understand it. But I also know what makes it ambiguous: it can suggest that there is a centre, already legitimate, with the power to open a place for others. That is not my vision.
My subject is not inclusion. My subject is transforming the frameworks that exclude.
Today, I am Communications Director France at Legrand Group, President of the Legrand Rainbow network, a speaker and an entrepreneur. I work with companies, institutions, media and brands to help them look differently at queer, trans and LGBTQIA+ issues. Not as peripheral subjects, but as very concrete questions of governance, work, health, employer branding, social innovation and collective performance.
What interests me, fundamentally, is not boxes. It is the lives that are sometimes forced to fit inside them. What is projected onto a person before they are even listened to. What is sometimes denied to them before their competence, complexity and legitimacy are even recognised.
I do not speak only from my own journey. I also speak from what I observe: those who do not yet have the safety, the codes, the degrees, the expected appearance or the social legitimacy to be heard. My role is not to be a symbol. My role is to open spaces, make realities visible, and help organisations move from intentions to action.
My speaking engagements have been featured by Le Monde, Le Parisien, Capital, TF1, France Inter and France Culture. I was also recognised as an LGBT+ Role Model Leader by L’Autre Cercle in 2023, then as a European LGBT+ Role Model Leader by the EPBN in 2026.
But titles, media coverage and distinctions are not the goal. What matters is what this voice makes possible: helping someone feel less alone, helping a team understand better, helping an organisation finally take its share of responsibility.
I do not sell diversity. I work to create frameworks in which people can fully exist, without being reduced to an identity, a box or a symbol.
And I deeply believe that organisations have everything to gain from this: more clarity, more courage, more accuracy, more humanity.