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Learning partners / Faculty & speakers

As a collaborative learning community, CEDEP works closely with its experts and learning partners. Our independence means we are free to bring together experts and faculty from many of the world’s top business schools and our extensive network of partners to work with our members.

Professors and Programme Directors co-design the leadership development programmes and collaborate in open exchange to leverage our collective intelligence.

Serge Airaudi

ORGANISATIONS & CULTURE​
Serge Airaudi is a researcher, consultant, and expert in organizational management and Japanese culture. He advises senior executives in the areas of strategy and management, and has carried out numerous consulting assignments with companies engaged in strategic agreements, alliances, acquisitions and establishments in Japan.

Patrick Amiel

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Patrick Amiel is an entrepreneur and co-founder of 321founded, a start-up studio that helps global organisations design, build and scale successful new ventures. Patrick’s expertise and passion for entrepreneurship drove him to create 321founded to provide French entrepreneurs with the tools to create the growth drivers of tomorrow.

LIRI ANDERSSON

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DIGITAL
Liri Andersson is the founder of this fluid world, a boutique business consultancy that helps global brands, and their people build relevance and resilience into their business.

ALBERT ANGEHRN

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & CHANGE COLLABORATION
Albert Angehrn’s activities concentrate on the impact of information and communication technologies and networks on learning, change, and collaboration processes within and across organisations, and on the design of innovative solutions to management learning, including the design of advanced simulations, intelligent agents, and virtual learning spaces.

ADRIEN ANGLIVIEL DE LA BEAUMELLE

COACH & FACILITATOR
Adrien Angliviel de la Beaumelle is a professional facilitator. He discovered facilitation 20 years ago and developed a passion for this job. He delivers large-scale events, support of transformation, and change management, and is at ease in face-to-face and online environments.

FRANK AZIMONT

GROWTH STRATEGIES, STRATEGY EXECUTION, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Frank is a scholar trained in sociology of markets, in marketing and in management. He received a PhD from Lancaster University in market studies. He is programme director at CEDEP, one of the leading European executive education centres. He currently spends most of his time working with executives, facilitating groups of leaders around market-oriented strategies.

MURIEL BARNIER

SAFETY
Muriel Barnier is the SPE CEDEP Safety Leadership Program Director and founder of Lime Core, a company dedicated to training and communications in HSE, Leadership and Employee Engagement.

MILTON BENNET

CULTURE & POLITICS
Dr. Milton J. Bennett is an American sociologist known for originating the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity that has been used to guide training and research in the field since 1986. The framework describes the different ways in which people can react to cultural differences.

NANA VON BERNUTH

LEADERSHIP & COLLABORATION
Nana von Bernuth is a Professor and Business Coach with a focus on Innovation, Strategy, and Leadership. Her passion lies in helping participants to transform learnings into action.

HÉLÈNE BOVAIS

ORGANISATION & RELATIONSHIPS
Hélène Bovais teaches sociology of organization, organizational theory and change management for senior executives in different institutions. Her research focuses on cooperation, paradox management, action theories and decision-making. She currently collaborates with Harvard Business School on a research program dedicated to hybrid organizations.

EDWARD BUCKINGHAM

STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP
Edward Buckingham’s areas of expertise are strategy, international business and operations management. His research focuses on the boundaries of the firm and the strategic implications of operating in developing countries.

PATRICK BUTLER

RISK MANAGEMENT
Patrick Butler advises and coaches Executive Committees and boards of global and national financial services firms to enhance their Compliance functions, build effective Conduct and Culture Enhancement programmes and strengthen risk management practices at all levels. He founded Calitor in 2012, through which he has helped clients such as Barclays Bank, RBS, Natixis and Commerzbank.

LUC DE BRABANDERE

PHILOSOPHY
Luc de Brabandere is one of the world’s leading business philosophers. After a background in mathematics and information technology, Luc graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2003.

LUCIEN DE BUSSCHER

TRANSFORMATION
Lucien de Busscher is a senior partner with EY Consulting in Belgium. He as worked for EY since 2004 and is the EY Consulting Life Sciences Lead for the region.

THÉO COMPERNOLLE MD., PhD.

LEADERSHIP, BRAIN-TECHNOLOGY, STRESS-RESILIENCE.
Dr. Theo Compernolle specialises in stress management, and has become an expert on the emotional and relational aspects of leadership and enhancing the resilience of executives, executive teams, organizations and families with a business, especially in times of conflict, stress and change.

ANDRÉ COMTE-SPONVILLE

PHILOSOPHY
André Comte-Sponville is one of the most widely read and translated French philosophers in the world.

EDITH CORON

COACH, INTERCULTURAL
Edith Coron is a senior executive coach, coach supervisor and facilitator. She brings to her work the scope and depth of more than thirty years of an exceptional global professional career, spanning four continents and stretching from her early years as a war correspondent in Central America to her certification as the first qualified coach supervisor in mainland China.

PASCAL COPPENS

INNOVATION & CHANGE
Pascal Coppens is an expert in all things innovation, change and trends in China, rooted in his deep understanding of the country as a sinologist.

MOIRA CREEDON

FINANCE & VALUE CREATION
Moira Creedon is a consultant and lecturer in Financial Management working with managers and entrepreneurs worldwide to help build and implement robust sustainable strategies for their businesses and create value by making the right decisions.

IVÁN CUESTA

PURCHASING, INVESTORS GOVERNANCE
Iván Cuesta is an entrepreneur, board member, researcher and lecturer. His field of interest spans from purchasing, strategic supply operations, life science startups, to corporate governance.

NICK VAN DAM

Leadership Development, Corporate L&D and Human Resources.
Dr. van Dam is an internationally recognized thought leader, advisor, researcher, facilitator, and best-selling (co-) author of more than 27 books on Leadership Development, Corporate Learning and Human Resources Management. Nick has over 25+ years of international business experience as a former Partner, Global Chief Learning Officer, HR-Executive, and Client Advisor at McKinsey & Company as well as at Deloitte.

CAM DANIELSON

LEADERSHIP & CHANGE
Cam Danielson’s work focuses on assisting leaders and management teams to revision future direction and opportunity amid the turbulence of personal, organizational, and societal change.

PHILIPPE DELQUIÉ

DECISION MAKING, INNOVATION
Phillippe Delquié’s teaching and research interests are in the area of decision, risk and multicriteria analysis.

EDOUARD DEMEIRE

MARKETING & SIMULATION
Edouard Demeire is a regular lecturer and visiting professor in academic institutions such as the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBSEM), ESCP Europe and CELforpharma, the Center for Executive Leadership in Pharmaceuticals of which he is a founding partner.

VINCENT DESPORTES

GEOSTRATEGY, STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP
Major General (r) Vincent Desportes turned to higher education, strategic thinking and international affairs, after a career in the French and U.S. Armed Forces. In this context, he worked in the United States between 1998 and 2003.

YVES DOZ

STRATEGY & STRATEGIC AGILITY
Yves Doz is the Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation at INSEAD and Visiting Professor at Aalto University (formerly Helsinki School of Economics).

JOHANA DUNLOP

BUSINESS & SUSTAINABILITY, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Johana Dunlop has been deeply committed to business, environment and society issues since 1997. Her expertise is both strategic and technical and applies to many aspects of social and environmental performance in relations to large international business.

FRANÇOIS DUPUY

ORGANISATIONS & SOCIOLOGY
François Dupuy is a sociologist who continues to operate frequently in academic and consulting positions.

ANTOINE DUVAUCHELLE

STRATEGY, INNOVATION & LEADERSHIP, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Antoine (Tony) Duvauchelle is an entrepreneur and adjunct professor at INSEAD. He’s co-founder of LiveCase, an educational technology business creating next generation gaming and simulation products for education and training.

INGRID ERAS

LEADERSHIP & EMOTIONAL INTELIGENCE
Ingrid Eras is a Senior Human Resource Leader with extensive experience directing HR functions as well as special integration and work stream projects in support of major acquisitions.

PAMELA FUHRMANN

COACH & CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP
Dr. Pamela Fuhrmann facilitates development experiences through leadership programs, retreats, and coaching in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Her expertise is developing the full capacity of each individual through fostering greater awareness of their internal environment and personal operating assumptions in order to be more capable of working with complexity, uncertainty, and change.

CLIVE GALLERY

FINANCE & VALUE CREATION
Clive Gallery is a Visiting Professor of Finance and Operations at the Sorbonne School of Business. Over the last 10 years he has become a renowned specialist in the optimisation of value relationships with key clients and suppliers to improve both top and bottom line performance.

CHRISTOPHE GILLET

INNOVATION & TRANSFORMATION, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Christophe Gillet is a transformation agent, an innovation activist and a corporate anxiolytic. He has developed expertise in Leadership of Change, Management of Innovation and Mental Models, as well as ‘new style’ Resilient Organisations.

JULES GODDARD

ORGANISATIONS, BEHAVIOURS & PHILOSOPHY
Jules Goddard is a Fellow of London Business School, formerly Gresham Professor of Commerce; Mercer’s School Memorial Professor of Business Administration at City University; Visiting Professor of Marketing at École des Ponts Paris Tech; Unilever Distinguished Scholar, AGSM at UNSW, Sydney.

ALAIN GOUDSMET

LEADERSHIP, TOP TEAM
Alain Goudsmet is an internationally renowned expert in the field of mental coaching with more than 20 years of experience guiding individuals and teams in their pursuit for top mental, emotional, and collective performance. Alain’s background is both in the world of sports and business.

THOMAS HELLWIG

LEADERSHIP, TRANSFORMATION & COACH
Dr. Thomas Hellwig is a medical doctor, executive coach, and professor of leadership. He is an experienced teacher and programme director at CEDEP.

YVES HENRY

LEADERSHIP & PIANIST
Yves Henry is a renowned pianist and composer, who started his musical journey at the age of 4. He gave his first concert at “Salle Pleyel” (Paris) in 1970 and played the 1st concerto of Beethoven with the Philharmonia of Berlin the day of his 13th birthday.

CHRISTOPH HEROLD

BUSINESS STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP
Christoph Herold is Chief Development Officer at CBTL GmbH, a leading e-learning provider, where he is responsible for developing and driving business strategy and the development and design of core e-learning products.

JASON HUNTER

INNOVATION & BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY
Jason Hunter is founder of F&W Strategy and Senior Global Consultant for the Blue Ocean Strategy Network. He’s led successful strategy and innovation initiatives to some of the world’s most recognizable institutions including General Electric, L’Oréal, KPMG, Starwood Hotels, Volvo, Pearson PLC, Toshiba, Samsung, Diageo, and the World Bank.

DAVID HUTCHENS

COMMUNICATION & STORYTELLING
David Hutchens is an author, business writer and learning designer who creates communication solutions for The Coca-Cola Company, Wal-Mart, IBM, GE, Nike, Bank of America, and others. He is chairman of Storytelling in Organizations, a special interest group of the globally renowned National Storytelling Network.

DOMINIQUE JACQUET

FINANCE, VALUE CREATION, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Dominique Jacquet is a professor of finance who nurtures his teaching practice by combining academic excellence and deep and permanent ties with the companies he has worked for.

ADRIAN JOHNSON

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Adrian Johnson is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and a technology and media entrepreneur.

MILO JONES

GEOPOLITICS, POLITICS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Milo Jones is an expert with demonstrated performance in strategy development, consulting and finance.

ERIC KACOU

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Eric Kacou’s passion is enterprise solutions to poverty for Africa and the rest of the developing world. Eric is actively engaged in consulting and investing across Africa.

PHILIPP KRISTIAN

TRANSFORMATION
Philipp Kristian is a global thought leader, keynote speaker and executive educator known for connecting the dots between trust, innovation, future and transformational leadership.

GEORGES LANDES

COACH, COLLABORATION, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Georges Landes is passionate about people and team dynamics. His work focuses on designing and delivering transformational team workshops, so teams own their stories and keep transforming themselves towards achieving their successes and happiness, hence, impacting positively in their organisation.

DEAN VAN LEEUWEN

STRATEGY & COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
Dean Van Leeuwen is a successful entrepreneur and leadership and strategy consultant. He founded TomorrowToday UK and is co-founder of TomorrowToday Global, a futurist and leadership development consultancy that has delivered strategic leadership insights in over 50 countries for the past 15 years.

JASMINE MANET

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & LEADERSHIP
Committed and curious, Jasmine Manet founded a company called Vocation during her studies at HEC, a career guidance service that has helped more than 20,000 students and graduates.

MARK MCCARTHY

SALES LEADERSHIP, STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Mark is a co-founder of Meta-LUCID (founded 2007), a firm of consulting practitioners specialising in designing and implementing talent management strategy to increase management and leadership capabilities and capacity for organisations.

JENS MEYER

INNOVATION & CHANGES, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Jens’ interest focusses on innovation and change. His approach is to explore managerial beliefs, reveal cognitive biases and propose means and measures to adapt to, transform or overcome these. He has developed and taught courses on a variety of subjects including, Blue Ocean Strategy & Value Innovation, Fair Process & Change Management, Cyber-Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Innovation in the context of Business Start-ups), and Business Intelligence.

DOMINIQUE MOÏSI

GEOPOLITICS
Dominique Moisi is founding member and Senior Advisor of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) Paris, a French political scientist and writer.

NICK OBOLENSKY

LEADERSHIP & COMPLEXITY
Nick Obolensky is a global thought leader in the field of organisational leadership development. His speciality is improving organisational-wide leadership capability, innovation and enabling effective strategy and change.

SANDRINE OEUVRARD

BUSINESS COACH, COLLABORATION, CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Sandrine Oeuvrard is the founder of Archipel Connect, a coaching company that supports individuals, teams and organisations in their cultural transformations.

VÉRONIQUE OLIVIER-MARTIN

COMMUNICATION & SCRIBING
Véronique Olivier-Martin is an illustrator and facilitator. She has over 15 years of specialized experience in the use of visualisation to stimulate collective intelligence.

SÉBASTIEN OLLÉON

ORGANISATION & MANAGEMENT
Sebastien Olleon’s focus is on organisational analysis and change management, with a passion for passing on practical knowledge in an academic and playful way.

SUDHANSHU PALSULE

STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION
Sundhanshu Palsule is one of the leading thinkers in the field of transformative leadership and leading in complexity. His work on leadership brings together the latest research emerging from neurology and psychology, and his own exploration of human thinking and behaviour over thirty years.

GINO PEREMANS

COAH, CHANGE & ORGANISATION
Gino Peremans is a transformational executive coach who was captured by ‘systems’ and ‘change’ during his studies. He went on to specialize in Belgian’s public sector and Human Resources, and started working as a consultant to drive change processes in Human Resource Management.

CHRISTINA PRITCHARD

STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP
Christina is a co-founder of Meta-LUCID (founded 2007), a firm of consulting practitioners specialising in designing and implementing talent management strategy to increase management and leadership capabilities and capacity for organisations

CHRISTIAN RAUCH

INNOVATION & ARTS, SCIENCE, LEADERSHIP
Christian Rauch is founder and director of STATE Festival, a public forum and annual festival for science, art and technology in Berlin and works as a Technology Transfer Manager for a German nanotechnology research institute.

SIMONE EVA REDRUPP

CULTURAL & INTERCULTURAL
Simone-Eva Redrupp is a high-energy, polyglot facilitator, consultant, and Adjunct Professor. With a lot of humour, she coaches international leaders to leverage cultural differences as assets in addition to helping multicultural teams improve their cross-border collaboration in a global environment.

ISABEL RIMANOCZY

SUSTAINABILITY
Isabel Rimanoczy has made it her life purpose to promote change accelerators. Aware of the complex challenges our planet (and us in it) are facing, she works alongside those who can make an impact on a greater scale.

BÉATRICE ROUSSET

ORGANISATION & MENTAL MODELS
With a career of 20 years within large organizations almost always in leadership development, Béatrice Rousset is experienced coach and facilitator. She has worked with hundreds of individuals from all kind of countries.

ANIL SACHDEV

ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, SPIRITUALITY & BUSINESS
Anil Sachdev is the Founder and CEO of Grow Talent Company Limited and the Founder and Chairman of School of Inspired Leadership-SOIL. Grow Talent was the leader in HR consulting and brought Great Places to Work and Right Management to India as partners.

LOÏC SADOULET

ECONOMY & STRATEGIC AGILITY, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Loïc Sadoulet is an Affiliate Professor of Economics at INSEAD. He has been teaching at INSEAD since 2000 in executive development programs, the MBA and executive MBA programs.

STEFAN SCHEPERS

POLICY & INNOVATION
Stefan Schepers is Secretary General of the High Level Groups on EU Policy Innovation, a unique think tank model for constructive engagement between the public and private sector, the alignment of views and the development of innovative solutions for common strategic issues.

ANDREW SHARMAN

SAFETY, STRESS
Andrew Sharman holds Masters degrees in international health and safety law, and in organisational psychology.

PHILIPPE SILBERZAHN

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & MENTAL MODELS
Philippe Silberzahn is a recognised expert in innovation, entrepreneurship and corporate transformation. His work focuses on how organisations manage situations of radical uncertainty, from a managerial and entrepreneurial perspective.

GERLINDE SILVIS

COACH, CEDEP PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Gerlinde Silvis is an organisational consultant and executive coach with over 30 years of experience as a senior executive in financial services.

JOE TABET

INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT, FACULTY FOR GOOD
Joe Tabet is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at INSEAD. He joined INSEAD in 1993 to launch the Healthcare Management Initiative (HMI). His initial research was in the area of managing services, focusing on the complex aspects of managing professional organisations (healthcare, consulting etc.) more specifically addressing the challenging aspects of improving the quality of services.

DOMINIQUE TURCQ

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, STRATEGY & DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
Dominique Turcq’s field of expertise is on people management in the changing workplace, in light of new technologies, political, economic and societal changes.

RICK VERA

COACH
Rik Vera is a business coach, advisor, author and global inspirational speaker on the impact of the digital economy on people, society and business. He shares his knowledge and expertise to audiences and managers worldwide on how they can think, move and act in a complex world that is being reshaped by technology.

GUIDO VERSWIJVEL

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MARKETING & FINANCE
Guido Verswijvel is owner and Managing Director of Gucy, active investor, and strategic advisor for the ambitious and growth-oriented entrepreneur/enterprise. Based on his profound knowledge and practical expertise in marketing as well as finance, he can help to address the major strategic challenges that companies face from both angles.

LUK VAN WASSENHOVE

OPERATIONS
Luk Van Wassenhove’s research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, quality, continual improvement and learning.

WIM WUYTS

STRATEGY & TAX
Wim Wuyts is global tax transformation leader who is passionate about learning and executive education. Wim is the CEO at WTS Global, founder of the International School for Tax Leadership, and author of several books and publications on tax and business leadership.

NADYA ZHEXEMBAYEVA

CSR & SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker and author — specializing in reinvention. She has been called ‘The Reinvention Guru’ in Ventures magazine and ‘The Queen of Reinvention’ from TEDx Navasink.