Corinne Guichart and Alain Steinberg, the founders of #inextremis, in a bright Brussels office corridor

A senior-led Brussels agency for complex European communication.

Founded in 1994, #inextremis is a senior-led Brussels agency for European institutions, associations and mission-led organisations. We combine strategic judgment, facilitation, creative intelligence and delivery; the founders stay close to the work, with trusted specialist capacity built around each brief.

The people behind the work

A deliberately concise, senior-led team.

The founders stay close to the work. Specialist capacity is brought in around the brief.

Alain Steinberg, co-founder and director of #inextremis, standing by a window overlooking a Brussels avenue

Co-founder and Director

Alain Steinberg

Alain works alongside European organisations on strategic communication, institutional branding and the translation of complex issues into clear, credible systems. He leads the framing of assignments, facilitates decision-making and provides senior continuity at the moments that shape the work.

Corinne Guichart, co-founder and creative director of #inextremis, seated in the studio with a coffee and notebook

Co-founder and Creative Director

Corinne Guichart

Corinne brings creative direction and design judgment to the systems, publications, campaigns and identities through which complex organisations become clearer and more recognisable.

Ingrid Bénites Guntendorfer, creative and digital lead at #inextremis, in the studio

Creative and Digital Lead, and UX Support

Ingrid Bénites Guntendorfer

Ingrid supports the digital and creative development of projects, helping turn agreed direction into clear, engaging and usable experiences.

Around the core

Specialist network and working languages.

Specialist network
Depending on the assignment, the founders and Ingrid coordinate trusted specialists in web development, graphic production, print and video. Translation is coordinated with a dedicated language-services provider. This keeps senior responsibility visible while giving each project the expertise and capacity it actually needs.
Working languages
English is our principal working language. We also work directly in French and coordinate additional languages with our translation provider.
The #inextremis team at work in the Brussels studio, gathered around long white desks with laptops and screens

What we bring

Senior enough to challenge. Close enough to deliver.

External support is most valuable when it adds judgment, coherence, specialist craft, capacity or continuity — while strengthening the communication lead’s role rather than displacing it.

Communication teams now create more content, manage more channels and use AI-supported tools internally. External support is most useful when it adds judgment, coherence, specialist craft, capacity or continuity.

Senior judgment
A direct view of the decision, its risks and the smallest useful way forward.
Facilitation
A process that brings leadership, teams, members and working groups into productive participation.
Creative intelligence
Narrative, structure and design thinking used to clarify substance rather than decorate it.
Continuity
A coherent line from the first question through implementation, review and handover.
Integrated delivery
Strategy, branding, content, design and production connected across channels — or applied to one focused assignment when that is what the client needs.

Your organisation retains ownership of its strategy, expertise, editorial judgment and decision to publish. We work with your team, not around it, and make responsibilities and approval points explicit.

A #inextremis working session in Brussels: a team member presenting an example monthly content agenda on screen to colleagues around a meeting table

Experience that serves the present

Three decades turned into usable judgment.

For more than three decades, #inextremis has worked across institutional communication, associations, mission-led organisations, complex sectors, European campaigns, identities, strategic and anniversary publications, digital platforms, video, brand launches and flagship events. The history matters because it has produced judgment, range and continuity that clients can use now.

EUMEPS, WWF, LightingEurope, FIEC, ASECAP, ILSI Europe and WCO are among the organisations supported through this integrated approach.

Framework-contract experience includes ESMA, ECHA, the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the Council of Europe and Europol.

#inextremis is accustomed to confidential working environments, including assignments for NATO, Eurocontrol and UNEP. Confidential material is handled according to the requirements of the client and the assignment.

Institutional readiness

Used to framework contracts, public procurement and confidential environments.

Institutional reliability is part of the work, not a line added to the proposal.

Framework-contract experience includes ESMA, ECHA, the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the Council of Europe and Europol.

#inextremis is accustomed to confidential working environments, including assignments for NATO, Eurocontrol and UNEP. Confidential material is handled according to the requirements of the client and the assignment.

The agency has delivered assignments through public procurement at European, Belgian and regional levels, including work for CREG, citydev.brussels and BRUGEL.

Looking for senior support that can stay close to the work?

Bring us the question, tension or defined assignment. We will help identify a proportionate starting point and stay close enough to connect the decision to the delivery.