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Keynote SpeakerIsaac Getz

A leading thinker and practitioner of organisational transformation

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.... Read More

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.

“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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

Popular Talks by Isaac Getz

  • Leadership, corporate culture, transformation, the future of work
  • Engagement, motivation, autonomy, collaboration, well-being
  • Generation Z, millennials, employer attractiveness
  • Performance, resilience, anti-fragility, excellence
  • Creativity, innovation, initiative
  • Customer delight, growth
  • Purpose, optimism, force for good, reinventing capitalism