The people behind it
About PAQ Anyway
Built by two people who've been doing the work, not watching from a distance.
The people behind it
Built by two people who've been doing the work, not watching from a distance.
Co-Founder
Laurence Paquette is a French Canadian marketing leader based in Denmark, where she has lived for the past 20 years. She spent 15 years at Vestas, the world's largest wind energy company, across six roles from Market Analyst to Vice President of Marketing and Brand.
She built brands, led global marketing, and worked at the intersection of strategy, policy, and commercial impact. Her work includes building the Covento brand from zero, standing up the MarTech stack across Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe AEM, and leading campaigns that earned international coverage in TIME, Variety, and The Economist.
Today, she works with startups, scale ups, and enterprise organisations as a Fractional and Interim CMO, helping companies build stronger marketing functions, sharper positioning, and work that actually lands.
She is also a keynote speaker on brand, leadership, authenticity, inclusive culture, energy transition, and renewables, and an executive coach for senior leaders navigating growth, transition, and visibility.
Alongside her corporate career, she built an organic audience of more than 85,000 across platforms, becoming a trusted voice in the conversation around marketing, leadership, and modern working life.
Co-Founder
Filippa Rosenquist is a Swedish media and communications specialist based in Copenhagen and the operational brain behind PAQ Anyway. While Laurence is the front-of-house voice, Filippa is the one making sure everything actually runs, from content and copy to systems, social media, newsletters, admin, and creative production.
Her background spans media production, storytelling, video editing, and copywriting, with a particular strength in building the kind of content infrastructure that makes a business look and sound like itself at scale.
She brings a sharp editorial eye and a production-minded approach to everything she touches. If Laurence is the idea, Filippa is the execution. Together they have built PAQ Anyway into something that works, creatively and commercially.
On stage
Laurence has delivered keynotes and facilitated workshops for global organisations, conferences, and leadership programmes. Her sessions are grounded in real experience: leading campaigns that shaped policy, building and leading global teams, navigating major transitions, and learning what leadership looks like when there is no script.
She speaks on brand strategy, marketing leadership, inclusive leadership, the energy transition, neurodiversity, and authentic communication. The focus shifts depending on the audience, but the approach stays the same: practical, honest, and grounded in real world experience.
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Coaching
Laurence works one-on-one with senior professionals who are at an inflection point. The kind of moments where you know something has to shift, but the usual frameworks don't quite fit.
Her coaching approach draws on her own experience navigating identity shifts, career transitions, and the particular pressures of leading as a non-traditional profile in large organisations. She brings honesty, no pretense, and a genuine commitment to helping you find clarity, on your terms.
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Forthcoming
Lead Anyway, Laurence Paquette's first book, publishing with De Gruyter in autumn 2026, is a leadership book for people who have never quite fit the mold. It is for the quiet ones, the overthinkers, the neurodivergent professionals, and anyone who has spent years adapting themselves to leadership models that were never built for them.
Part manifesto, part personal reflection, part practical guide, Lead Anyway challenges the idea that leadership belongs only to the loudest, boldest, or most conventional people in the room. Grounded in lived experience, research, and practical tools, it offers a more honest and sustainable way to lead: without pretending to be someone else.
Published by De Gruyter — Autumn 2026
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