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High-Performance Coach · General Manager · Speaker
High performance, experienced from the inside.
Representing France. Playing in the Champions League. Reaching finals. Winning a title with Paris Volley. Then taking on a different responsibility: helping others reach the next level.
DESJEPS Performance Sportive · Graduated top of his class · 2012
More than 30 years in high-performance sport
A player experiences high performance from the inside. A coach has to create the conditions for an entire team to reach it. Frédéric Havas has held both responsibilities — and then taken on the leadership of a professional sport organisation.
1992–2008
138 caps for France. European Championships and World League campaigns. At club level, the Champions League with Soria and Paris, European competitions with Sète, and finals in France and Spain. A career that gives preparation, competition and pressure a very practical meaning.
2008
After becoming French champion with Paris Volley, he ends his professional playing career and starts coaching Marseille in the men’s Ligue B. The challenge changes: prepare, recruit, develop players and give the team a direction. A player’s experience becomes a resource for a coach’s work.
2015–2021
His career also includes years of volunteer coaching with young players at Saint-Cloud and Levallois, from under-9 to under-13 teams. Alongside professional sport come the first skills, the first matches and the enjoyment of learning together. Talent development starts here, too.
Levallois · 2018–2024
Two promotions. Three titles. One journey at Levallois.
When he arrives in 2018, Levallois’ women’s team plays in Nationale 2. Working with the players, staff and club, Frédéric Havas helps build its progression through recruitment, individual development, team preparation and sporting organisation. N2 champions in 2019, the team wins the Elite championship in 2022 and earns its first promotion to Ligue A, France’s top division.
« I’m happier than in 2008 »After Levallois’ promotion, he compares that joy with winning the title as a Paris Volley player.
Frédéric Havas, in L’Équipe · 9 May 2022 · translated from FrenchIn 2024, Levallois wins the French women’s Ligue A championship. Frédéric Havas is still at Levallois, this time as General Manager. After N2 and Elite titles as a coach, another milestone in his career.
FFVolley · 2023–2024 season honoursSee the team. Understand the whole organisation.
Performance also depends on decisions around the court: recruitment, budgets, staff organisation and the place given to player development.
2023–2024
Levallois
General Manager during the club’s 2024 French women’s Ligue A championship season. Oversight of professional volleyball activities, budgets and organisation, connecting the club’s sporting ambitions with its resources.
2023–2024
Levallois
Supporting young players, organising development programmes and coordinating with the federation. Thinking about the pathway to high performance as well as the current team.
2024–2025
Béziers · Women’s Ligue A
Recruitment, preparation and leadership of the professional team. Coaching remains at the heart of his work.
A career on the court, reinforced by qualifications in coaching and sporting performance.
Work together
A team to develop. A project to build. Experience of high-performance sport to put to work for your people.
01Clubs & federations
Rebuild a team. Structure recruitment. Develop players.
Connect sporting decisions, individual development and staff work around a shared project.
Coaching role · Sporting project leadership · Work with a coaching staff
From Nationale 2 to Ligue A. N2 champions in 2019 and Elite champions in 2022 as a coach, followed by the Ligue A title in 2024 as General Manager.
02Universities & development programmes
Develop players. Support coaches. Compare approaches.
Work on the court and exchange ideas on preparation, player development and team culture. The format is agreed with the institution, in line with its programme and requirements.
Volleyball clinics · Coach workshops · Programme exchanges
Coaching young players and professionals, leading Levallois’ training centre, and graduating top of his class in the DESJEPS Performance Sportive programme.
03Companies & events
Bring strong personalities together. Clarify roles. Make decisions under pressure.
Connect situations experienced in professional sport with the challenges facing your team.
Talk · Workshop · Conversation with a leadership team
Three successive responsibilities in high-performance sport, from international competition to coaching a team and leading a professional club.
04Sports companies
Question a product. Understand its use. Explore a partnership.
Examine your proposal from the perspective of players, coaches and clubs: practical value, constraints and everyday use.
Practitioner feedback · Product workshop · Partnership conversation
The perspective of a former international player, coach and General Manager, with experience of recruitment, budgets and the organisation of professional volleyball.
Your context is the starting point. Let’s find the right format together.
Let’s talk about your projectEntrepreneurship & speaking
As the founder of Havas Coaching, developed between 2009 and 2019, Frédéric Havas also knows the work of building a business. As a sport consultant for Eurosport, Canal+ and Sport en France, he has analysed and explained volleyball on air. In 2014, he spoke at the Salon SME / TPE at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
Building teams · Moving from player to coach · Developing talent · Deciding under pressure
Direct conversations, clear responsibilities and serious work. An approach to projects that also leaves room for people.
What’s next matters.
Through ALEAD, Frédéric is developing a project around athlete development, volleyball and international pathways. Launch is planned for 2027. It follows the same thread: helping talent understand and prepare for the next step.
Discover ALEADYes. Coaching remains his core work. Clubs and federations can contact him about a coaching role, building a team or a sporting development project.
Yes, to share his experience of teams and management through a talk, workshop or conversation. The content is shaped around your context, using examples from professional sport.
Volleyball clinics, coach exchanges and workshops on player development and team culture. The format is defined with the institution, in line with its programme and requirements.
Frédéric Havas / ALEAD
Tell me about your team, your organisation or your event. Let’s start with a conversation.