Isaac Getz
Author, conference speaker
advisor advisor to a select circle of leaders, Professor at ESCP Business School
Main Topics:
Innovation, employee engagement, motivation, Gen Z & Gen Y, leadership, corporate transformation, public service institutions, corporate purpose and social responsibility.
Professional Profile:
He specializes in the areas of leadership and organizational 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) and of The Caring Company (2025) 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, Gen Z & Y, corporate transformation, and corporate purpose. He has given executive conferences, keynote speeches and training seminars for hundreds of companies, organizations, 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 Allergan AbbVie, 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 organizations 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, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Strategy+Business, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Monde, CNBC, RAI 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 for 2019.
Marconi Institute for Creativity, part of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, gave Isaac Getz the 2020 Marconi Creativity Award.
Thinkers50 shortlisted Isaac’s work for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award on corporate liberation in 2019 and on the caring company in 2025.
Education:
- DHDR (post Ph.D.) in Management
- Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Science
- M.Sc. in Management Science
- M.Sc. in Computer Science
Selected Works:
Freedom, Inc. with Brian Carney, 2009/2016 (in 15 languages; in Italian — Freedom, Inc., GueriniNext, 2018)
Leadership Without Ego with Bob Davids and Brian Carney, 2019 (also in French and Spanish)
The Altruistic Enterprise, 2019 with Laurent Marbacher (in French and Chinese)
The Caring Company, 2025 with Laurent Marbacher
A lesson in creating successful companies that care. Strategy+Business, Issue 100, pp. 28-31, Autumn 2020.
The COVID-19 test: is your company perfect for its business ecosystem? With Laurent Marbacher. In Ecosystems Inc.: Understanding, harnessing and developing organizational ecosystems. Wargrave, UK: Brightline/Thinkers50, 2020, pp. 74-78.
The transformation: How Michelin redefined the twenty-first century industrial corporation. In The Transformation Playbook: Insights, Wisdom and Best Practices to Make Transformation Reality. London: Brightline/Thinkers50, 2019. pp. 169-173.
Liberating leadership: How the initiative-freeing radical organizational form has been successfully adopted, California Management Review, 51, 32-58.
Le vostre idee cambieranno tutto! Il valore delle piccole idee, with Alan Robinson, Il Sole 24 Ore Libri, 2005 (also in French, German, Dutch, and Spanish).
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