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# Isaac Getz — Keynote Speaker

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> **Profile URL:** https://londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profile/isaac-getz/
> **Profile last updated:** 2026-08-12
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## Booking Information
- **Bureau:** London Speaker Bureau
- **Speaker profile (booking & enquiries):** https://londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profile/isaac-getz/
- **Speaking fees:** On request — contact London Speaker Bureau for a current quote.
- **Availability:** Worldwide, in-person and virtual keynote engagements.
- **Languages spoken:** English, French (this profile may not list every language in which the speaker can present; ask London Speaker Bureau to confirm.)
- **Formats:** Keynote speeches, fireside chats, panel moderation, executive workshops and masterclasses.

## Speaker Headline
Author, Conference Speaker, Senior Advisor and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School

## Biography
Isaac Getz is an author, conference speaker, senior advisor and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School. He specialises in the areas of leadership and organisational transformation and has been instrumental in the modern corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions in Europe and Canada. Getz is the co-author of the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc. (2009) with Brian Carney, which has been translated into fifteen languages. He is also author of the award-winning Liberated Company (2017), co-author of Leadership without Ego (2019) with Bob Davids and Brian Carney and co-author of The Altruistic Enterprise (2019) with Laurent Marbacher. He is a columnist in Harvard Business Review France and Le Monde and won the best Op-Ed 2017 award. Dr. Getz is a sought-after public speaker on the topics of innovation, employee engagement, motivation, leadership, corporate transformation, and corporate purpose. He has given executive conferences, keynote speeches and training seminars for hundreds of companies, organisations, and summits including multiple TEDx events, Peter Drucker Global Forum in Vienna, Stanford Executive Briefings, and World Knowledge Forum in Seoul. Getz has been a senior advisor for several major corporations including Decathlon, Michelin, and Suez. Getz’s work has been instrumental in the rise of the corporate liberation movement in Europe and Canada. Since 2012, hundreds of companies and institutions have transformed their command-and-control organisations into freedom-and responsibility-based ones. Major adoptees include Michelin, Airbus, Decathlon, EDF, the French Social Security, and several Belgian ministries and French municipalities. He is a Professor at the top-ranked ESCP Business School (Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Torino, Warsaw). He was formerly a Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford. Getz’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Strategy+Business, Le Monde, CNBC, Fox, Nikkei and other leading media around the world. A study by the French National Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) on the world’s most influential living management authors ranked Getz at N°4. LinkedIn ranked Isaac in their Top 25 Influencers in France. Thinkers50 shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award. Marconi Institute for Creativity, part of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, gave Isaac Getz the 2020 Marconi Creativity Award.

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## Topics & Areas of Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence
- Future of Work
- Gen Z
- Leadership
- Millennials
- Motivation
- Organisation
- Performance
- Teamwork
- Transformation
- Wellbeing

## Popular Talks by Isaac Getz
### Management and Transition in The Age of AI
Tens of thousands of today’s jobs will soon disappear, replaced by new roles tied to AI. To avoid major social and human crises, businesses must act now to rethink the work models of those whose jobs are at risk. One key lesson from past failures in similar transitions is that this rethinking will not happen on its own. I am an AI enthusiast, having explored it first as an engineer and later as a cognitive science researcher. But enthusiasm alone is not enough. If companies continue their top-down approach—outsourcing tech-driven projects to experts without involving the very employees whose work is being disrupted—they are setting themselves up for failure. Unless business leaders reshape their organizational models to actively engage employees—including in the AI-driven transformation of their own roles—this technology is destined to fail for them.

### How to Attract and Retain Young Generations?
In 2025, millennials and Generation Z represent nearly 75% of the workforce. Yet, they are much less inclined than their elders to join companies or even to stay there. According to 2023 Deloitte survey, 34% of millennials have turned down job offers from employers that did not match their values. Many among them are freelancers, with 35% stating they would never become employees again. At the risk of compromising their survival, companies are intensifying their efforts to attract and retain these young talents, from improving working conditions to adopting social missions. However, these strategies show their limits. Investing in high benefits and modern work-spaces offers a temporary and non-differentiating solution. Even pursuing a deep social and environmental mission does not guarantee the adherence of the young, who remain skeptical about the real impact of corporate actions. In this conference, Isaac will reveal and illustrate the key elements of the approach of companies that have chosen to focus above all on trust and self-direction rather than control and subordination, an approach that aligns with the aspirations of younger generations.

### Building corporate dynamics for world class innovation and growth
“Innovation is a must win battle,” declared one corporate CEO, and his EVP then implemented a process to manage innovation. However, the battle is still raging—why? Processes are primordial when people’s roles can be strictly defined, as in supply chain management. But in innovation people come before processes. As Isaac discovered in his work with some of the world’s most innovative companies, their leaders believe in exactly that; hence, instead of directly managing innovation they build an environment in which everyone can take initiative and run with it. In this session, I will reveal and illustrate the key elements of this approach to innovation before detailing the greatest leaders’ lessons in building an environment for innovation and how they can be applied in organizations of all sizes, types, sectors, and geography.

### Transformation leadership for highly resilient and high-performing organizations
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need,” said the first visionary CEO of 3M, William McKnight. Yet, the rigid structure of many companies constitutes exactly these fences, albeit unknowingly. In such companies, when a new opportunity arises or complications loom, employees are unable to take initiatives, despite the fact that many—being on the ground—have real, viable solutions. Transformational leaders—in companies of all sizes, types, sectors, and geography— have decided to eradicate these fences and build organizations that free people, allowing them to act for the best of the company. Through cases I observed, I will draw lessons on how transformational leadership can build an environment that allows employees and their companies to perform exceptionally, whatever challenging the situations they face are.

### Building a culture of self-motivation, engagement, and performance
“How do you motivate people? You don’t. Man is, by nature, motivated,” wrote the legendary Douglas McGregor. Yet, too often managers assume their employees aren’t competent or willing to do their best. Gallup surveys seem to prove them right: average employee engagement remains low all over the world. However, some leaders have realized that employees behave as competent and responsible adults—at home. These leaders then resolved to build a workplace in which people’s fundamental psychological needs are met—just like at home—and as a result, their employees have become self-motivated and engaged. This, in turn, has propelled these employees’ and their companies’ performance to the top of their sectors and kept them there throughout both good and bad times. I will illustrates, with personally observed examples, the steps these leaders followed, steps others can draw on to build similar self-motivated and top-performing organizations

### The secrets of consistently high-performing businesses — in good times and bad
All companies strive to achieve high performance, yet high performance eludes most. My research shows that this isn’t paradoxical—it’s logical. What’s more, I have studied over a hundred companies, which did not set out seeking high performance, yet were consistently achieving it. This does sound paradoxical, but there is more. These private and listed, local and international companies, spanning all sectors and continents, drive high performance regardless—enjoying exceptional performance in both fair weather and throughout storms. I will reveal the secrets of how these companies “square this circle” and will share lessons for you to takeaway and use tomorrow to transform your company into a similarly, exceptionally performing business—whatever the future holds.

## Testimonials
> “Isaac Getz spoke during a masterclass with the leaders of the company. His speech, followed by a question-and-answer session, allowed us to deepen our thinking and actions around our transformation process and the role of the leader in its critical phases. The first session was very positive and well received so we decided to continue discussions in a separate session with the executive team. Isaac’s capacity to listen, his experiences with a diverse range of companies and the quality of his exchanges were appreciated by all participants who left with a deeper grasp of the issues and challenges of the transformation.”
> — – Thierry Lhullier, General Manager and Director of Operations, UPSA *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

> “It was a pleasure to have you address our top leadership team today. As time passed, the momentum was built. Attendants liked the simplicity of approach and explanation.”
> — – Sanjay S. Singh, Global Chief Human Resources Officer, UPL Ltd *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

> “Isaac Getz gave speeches both to the top 200 executives of SUEZ and to our Business Unit Heads of HR. Isaac is an outstanding speaker and delivers his content in simple language with a great sense of humour, much appreciated by our international audience. I am an advocate of Isaac’s work on freedom and trust-based companies. We must promote trust and empower employees. Through his concrete examples and concepts, Isaac changed our thinking on how to transform our organisation. He has also started advising parts of our company as we work through this transformation.”
> — – Isabelle Calvez, former EVP of Human Relations, Suez *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

> “Isaac spoke at our annual conference for the country’s pharmaceutical industry leaders. His warm style, humour and, of course, his both professional yet human content won over the audience. In a novel and practical way, he made the audience see the importance of the respect and freedom of employees that leads to the best results. They are eager to meet him again and to hear his new advice for an altruistic enterprise determinedly moving towards freedom and sharing”
> — – Layla Sentissi, Executive Director, Moroccan Federation of the Pharmaceutical Industry *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

> “I have been fortunate enough to listen to Isaac speak on his favorite subjects – liberated companies and altruistic enterprises – many times. I feel very grateful to have been given this opportunity. In a French or international context, I have taken part in his keynotes for leaders in France, Romania and Canada. I have always drawn deep learnings from him and feel that I’m far from the only one in the room to feel that. His very direct and practical, hands-on style, accompanied with a touch of very dry humour, perfectly delivers the deep messages and takeaways he looks to share. I recommend everyone to attend one of Isaac’s conferences. You will get something out of it.”
> — – Jean-Baptiste Dernoncourt, CEO, Carrefour Romania *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

> “We are very grateful for your participation in the first Innov4Change conference day for change agents across the African continent. Our audience/participants found your speech truly inspiring and helpful to their work. Your speech also helped to shape the Innov4Change conference and give it meaning. Thanks again for your time and generosity.”
> — – Mireille Kayijamahe, Co-director of Well Grounded, NGO supporting national civil society organizations in Africa *(via London Speaker Bureau)*

## Videos
- [Thinkers50 Brightline-Isaac Getz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pCGOuO3NI)
- [(Updated) What happens when you give all the authority to the employees?│Isaac Getz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlHz3CMLAc0)

## Frequently Asked Questions
**How do I book Isaac Getz for a keynote speech?**
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**What are Isaac Getz's speaking fees?**
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**Is Isaac Getz available for international events?**
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## How to Book Isaac Getz
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*Profile last updated: 2026-08-12*