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Isaac Getz

Speaker Isaac Getz Leading thinker on organisational transformation


Languages
English, French
Duration
45 to 90 minutes
Formats
Talk, Keynote, Workshop, Panel discussion

Biography

Isaac Getz is an author and international speaker. He helps leaders and organisations rethink how performance is built in a world marked by complexity and structural uncertainty. A professor at ESCP Business School, he studies the forms of organisation capable of freeing people’s intelligence, initiative and responsibility in order to create sustainable performance.

A pragmatic thinker on organisational transformation

His talks draw on several decades of observing and studying several hundred organisations in highly varied contexts, as well as on direct involvement in numerous transformations.

He helps leaders understand why some organisations remain robust, engage their employees, innovate over the long term and strengthen customer loyalty — while others struggle to do so.

From trust to sustainable performance

Co-author of Liberté & Cie, a book that did much to raise awareness of organisations built on trust and autonomy, Isaac Getz has since broadened his work to reflect on companies capable of building authentic relationships with their customers, suppliers and local communities.

This approach is at the heart of his book The Caring Company.

Books that have become standard references

Author of best-sellers translated into fifteen languages, he co-wrote, among others, Liberté & Cie, L’entreprise libérée, Leadership sans ego and The Caring Company.

His books have helped spread a demanding vision of management: less needless control, more trust; less ego in leadership, more care for customers, suppliers and local communities.

An international speaker, practical and grounded in reality

An international speaker, he addresses executives, executive committees, HR directors, managers, companies, public administrations and organisations undergoing transformation.

His strength: connecting concrete cases and real-life situations he has observed to help organisations bring lasting change to the way they work.

Sustainable performance emerges when organisations liberate people’s intelligence and initiative.

— Isaac Getz
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Conferences

Isaac Getz’s talks help leaders and organisations see their current challenges in a new light: resilience, robustness, engagement, innovation, customer loyalty, transformation and sustainable performance. These challenges often seem unrelated. Yet they frequently share a common source: the conditions the organisation creates — or fails to create — for its people to put their intelligence, creativity and initiative to work for customers and for the company’s vision.

01

High-Performing Organisations in Times of Uncertainty

How initiative builds robustness.

In an unstable environment, organisations can no longer rely on optimisation, procedures and control alone. Isaac Getz shows how the most robust organisations develop, as close to the ground as possible, people’s ability to decide, act and collaborate.
  • Understanding why optimisation can also weaken organisations
  • Strengthening local initiative to build organisational robustness
  • Identifying concrete action levers for leaders
Ideal for CODIR, DRH, managers, organisations en transformation
Format Talk, keynote or masterclass · 60 to 90 min
02

Leading in Uncertain Times

Why trust outperforms control.

When the environment becomes uncertain, the natural reflex is often to tighten control. Isaac Getz shows why this reflex quickly reaches its limits, and how trust, responsibility and decision-making close to the ground allow organisations to cope better with complexity and uncertainty.

  • Understanding why control can slow down action in uncertain times
  • Transforming the leader’s role: less controlling, more creating the conditions for trust
  • Building an organisation able to detect weak signals and act quickly on the
  • ground
Ideal for Executives, managers, leadership teams, organisations undergoing transformation
Format Talk or masterclass · 45 to 90 min
03

Engagement, Autonomy and Performance

How transformation brings out the best in people.

Engagement cannot be decreed, nor can it be driven by training courses or motivation programmes alone. Isaac Getz shows how organisations can transform themselves to allow people to put their ideas, initiative and energy to work for performance.
  • Moving beyond engagement driven by incentives alone
  • Connecting autonomy, responsibility and performance
  • Creating the concrete conditions for taking initiative
Ideal for Executive committees (CODIR), HR directors, managers, transformation teams, organisations seeking to strengthen engagement
Format Talk, keynote or masterclass · 60 min
04

Customer Loyalty and Sustainable Performance

Why loyalty starts inside the organisation.

Companies often seek customer loyalty through tools, processes or customer relationship programmes. Isaac Getz shows that lasting loyalty is often born elsewhere: in employees’ ability to act with judgement, freedom and speed for the good of the customer.
  • Understanding why transactions alone do not create loyalty
  • Connecting employee engagement and the customer relationship
  • Giving teams the freedom to truly serve the customer
Ideal for General management, customer, sales and HR departments, service organisations
Format Talk or masterclass · 60 to 90 min
05

Rethinking Corporate Purpose

Why performance follows care.

Drawing on his recent work on The Caring Company, Isaac Getz shows how some organisations move from a logic centred on transactions and self-interest to authentic relationships with their customers, suppliers and local communities — and how sustainable performance can follow.
  • Moving beyond a purely transactional logic
  • Making unconditional care for customers, suppliers and local communities a lever
  • for sustainable performance
  • Rethinking the company without reducing purpose to abstract rhetoric
Ideal for Executives, executive committees, companies engaged in strategic reflection on their mission and purpose
Format Talk, keynote or masterclass · 60 to 90 min

For which events?

Isaac Getz speaks at the key moments where people, performance and impact matter.

  • Seminars and conventions
  • Leadership committees and strategic talks
  • Product launches
  • CSR and climate events
  • Institutions, schools and universities

Possible formats

Formats adaptable to your goals and context.

  • Inspiring talk
  • Impactful keynote
  • Participative workshop
  • Panel
  • Webinar

Why choose them?

A unique experience serving strong, useful messages.

  • Field experience backing the message
  • Authentic and inspiring stories
  • Human, demanding and accessible approach
  • Tailored content aligned with your stakes
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Videos

A selection of content presenting his key ideas: the liberated company, leadership without ego, altruism and organisational resilience.

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Unleashing Talent to Unleash Performance 16:26
Short format

Unleashing Talent to Unleash Performance

A clear introduction to the concept of the liberated company and to trust as a driver of engagement.

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The Altruistic Company: Doing Good to Do Better 21:28
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The Altruistic Company: Doing Good to Do Better

Isaac Getz explains how strategic altruism can transform corporate culture.

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Leadership Without Ego 20.08
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Leadership Without Ego

A reflection on the servant leader’s stance and the power of leadership centred on others.

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Leadership Without Ego: The Strength 1:00:32
Conference clip

Leadership Without Ego: The Strength

How to build cultures able to embrace crisis and turn uncertainty into collective action.

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Serene Leadership for Adult, Engaged and High-Performing Employees 16:21
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Serene Leadership for Adult, Engaged and High-Performing Employees

Isaac Getz shows that the liberated company begins with humble leadership.
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The Caring Company: Why Caring Becomes a Strategy for Performance! 23:21
Interview

The Caring Company: Why Caring Becomes a Strategy for Performance!

Isaac Getz shows how caring companies create lasting value by putting people before profit.
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Isaac Getz explains that successful organizational transformation requires more than change projects: it starts with leaders transforming themselves, letting go of ego, and creating a culture of freedom, trust, and responsibility. 04:17
Interview

Isaac Getz explains that successful organizational transformation requires more than change projects: it starts with leaders transforming themselves, letting go of ego, and creating a culture of freedom, trust, and responsibility.

Isaac Getz shows that true transformation starts with humble leadership.
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Publications

  • Liberté & Cie
  • L’entreprise libérée
  • Leadership sans ego
  • L’entreprise altruiste
  • The Caring Company
  • Vos idées changent tout
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