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== Overview ==
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🌩️ '''Response to criticism and leadership approach.''' Across these episodes, observers have noted that Buberl tends to respond to controversy with a calm, analytical style, emphasising data and long-term objectives rather than rhetorical confrontation.<ref name="rra" /><ref name="lejdd" /> When facing investor scepticism about strategic moves such as the XL acquisition, labour opposition to restructuring, or activist campaigns on climate policy, he has typically increased communication with stakeholders, adjusted disclosure where necessary and held to the core elements of his strategy.<ref name="rra" /><ref name="atlas" /> Commentators have argued that the sustained improvement in AXA’s financial performance during his tenure has helped convert some initial critics into supporters, and French business media have written that by the early 2020s he had “silenced the sceptics” and secured a renewed mandate with an undisputed legitimacy at the top of AXA.<ref name="lejdd" /><ref name="boardsteward" /> Summarising his philosophy, Buberl has said that if a leadership team holds strong convictions and remains united behind them, it can “master even the stormiest times”, a maxim he has linked to his experience steering AXA through strategic upheaval and external shocks.<ref name="rra" />
== Notable quotes ==
{{Insert quote panel | image = thomas-buberl.jpg | {{Quote | text = I started from 80% life insurance and I knew I need to get away from it and so we changed the company from 80% life insurance to 10% life insurance keeping the same revenue.<ref name="RRA2022">{{cite AV media | people = Buberl, Thomas | title = Trust Your Gut: AXA’s Thomas Buberl Talks Transformation and Reinvention | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWkmAa7mrY | publisher = Russell Reynolds Associates | date = May 2022 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} We need to shift our business model from when I started 100% paying claims to... 2030 or beyond... making the claims payment the exception.<ref name="FCLT2025">{{cite AV media | people = Buberl, Thomas | title = Thomas Buberl on the Evolution of Insurance: From Response to Prevention | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FckGWVOcvs | publisher = FCLTGlobal | date = February 2025 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} If we continue to focus on prevention, if prevention becomes a mandatory part of the insurance solution, then climate can be properly priced again and will remain insurable.<ref name="FCLT2025" /> {{mini separator}} Technology will play an important role because prevention... will be very costly and almost impossible [without it].<ref name="FCLT2025" /> {{mini separator}} Our strategic question is and was: Are we becoming a balance sheet provider... or should we become an orchestrator of a community of insured people who we can help live a better life?<ref name="AMBest2019">{{cite web | title = CEO Interview: The Next Chapter | url = https://news.ambest.com/articlecontent.aspx?refnum=286548&altsrc=43 | website = AM Best | date = 2019 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} I discovered the insurance sector as the sector that I really enjoyed because of it being in the middle of society and having a massive impact on society.<ref name="Lancaster2024">{{cite AV media | people = Buberl, Thomas | title = An Interview with Thomas Buberl, AXA CEO | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjW_bDfBK20 | publisher = Lancaster University Management School | date = January 2024 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} You need to have a conviction that what you do is right in the long term even though it's maybe perceived as being a surprise in the short term.<ref name="RRA2022" /> {{mini separator}} When you have your first day of office the counter goes back to zero and you start at the bottom again.<ref name="RRA2022" /> {{mini separator}} Do not look back what your predecessors have done and try and copy them; be yourself, you will find the right answer.<ref name="RRA2022" /> {{mini separator}} Culture for me is the glue that keeps an organization together.<ref name="RRA2022" /> {{mini separator}} My task is not to command and control the execution of the integration. My task is to create an environment, to create an inspiration.<ref name="AMBest2019" /> {{mini separator}} One must reinvent themselves in life; for me, retirement arrives on the day of death.<ref name="YouTube2025">{{cite AV media | people = Buberl, Thomas | title = 20 minutes avec le PDG d'AXA | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0MwHFZaiSU | publisher = YouTube | date = July 2025 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} The best choices are made in naivety because if we think too much, we don't take risks.<ref name="YouTube2025" /> {{mini separator}} Every day can and must be an adventure.<ref name="YouTube2025" /> {{mini separator}} In a very uncertain time when things are foggy you don't know what to do next by definition and that's why my mantra is just follow your guts.<ref name="RRA2022" /> {{mini separator}} Integrity is very important to me. Being truthful to yourself, listening to feedback, being able to be confronted with things you should change.<ref name="AMBest2019" /> {{mini separator}} If you make a big plan about your career I can assure you it will not plan out like this.<ref name="Lancaster2024" /> {{mini separator}} The risk of social fracture seems even more serious than the climate threat.<ref name="CincoDias2025">{{cite web | title = Thomas Buberl (AXA CEO): “The risk of social fracture seems even more serious than the climate threat” | url = https://cincodias.elpais.com/companias/2025-01-20/thomas-buberl-ceo-de-axa-el-riesgo-de-una-ruptura-social-me-parece-aun-mas-grave-que-la-amenaza-climatica.html | website = Cinco Días (El País) | date = January 2025 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} A withdrawal from the EU would be a major defeat for France. The Franco-German axis is central to Europe.<ref name="Bilanz2017">{{cite web | title = AXA Chief Buberl: “A Le Pen victory would be a disaster” | url = https://www.bilanz.ch/beruf/axa-chef-buberl-ein-sieg-le-pens-ware-ein-desaster-127741 | website = BILANZ | date = April 2017 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} The weaker Europe becomes, the weaker we become overall.<ref name="Bilanz2017" /> {{mini separator}} The AI revolution is more touching those tech companies than it probably will touch the old giants from Europe.<ref name="Carmignac2025">{{cite web | title = Edouard Carmignac: A Conversation with Thomas Buberl, CEO of AXA | url = https://www.carmignac.com/en/articles/edouard-carmignac-a-conversation-with-thomas-buberl-ceo-of-axa-3306-11458 | website = Carmignac | date = April 2025 | access-date = 2025-12-28}}</ref> {{mini separator}} Apple started with a little garage and sort of nearly killed IBM... nothing should be taken for granted.<ref name="Carmignac2025" /> | author = {{Thomas Buberl/attribution}} }} }}
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