Getz Isaac | ESCP Business School

Isaac Getz

Full Professor of Leadership, organizational transformation, future of work, engagement, motivation, Gen Z and Y, innovation, customer care, CSR, corporate purpose

Department : Management
Campus : Paris

Isaac Getz is an author, conference speaker, and Professor in Leadership and Innovation at ESCP Business School. He has served as a Visiting Professor at both Cornell and Stanford Universities. Isaac is a prolific writer and speaker on topics including innovation, corporate transformation, leadership, liberated organisations, and caring companies. He has delivered executive conferences and seminars in hundreds of companies worldwide, as well as at the Peter Drucker Forum, the World Knowledge Forum, and four TEDx events. In 2009, Isaac published the article “Liberating Leadership” in the California Management Review, introducing the groundbreaking concept of the liberated company. The article received the Syntec Annual Award for Best Academic Paper. The same year, he co-authored Freedom, Inc. with Brian Carney, which won the DCF Best Book Award in France and has been published in 15 countries. In 2016, Isaac authored La liberté, ça marche!, a finalist for the DCF Annual Book Award in France. The following year, he published L’entreprise libérée, honoured with the Rotary Award for Best Business Book. He continued his collaborative work in 2018, co-authoring Leadership Without Ego with Bob Davids and Brian Carney, translated into French and Spanish. In 2019, Isaac partnered with Laurent Marbacher to write L’Entreprise altruiste, exploring organisations that thrive by unconditionally serving the members of their business ecosystems. An English book [on the same] futher developing this topic, The Caring Company, is [forthcoming] published in 2025. It has been shortlisted by Thinkers50 for the Beakthrough Ideas Award. Most recently, in 2024, he co-authored “The Liberated Company Theoretical Concept” in Journal of Organization Design with Gilles Arnaud, examining research developments since [the idea] this organizational philosophy was first introduced. Originally trained in Computer Science, he later earned an M.Sc. in Management Science, a Doctorate in Psychology, and a post-doctoral qualification (HDR) in Management.

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

The altruistic enterprise: How a company can actually succeed by doing good

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-02-EN

Research and expertise

Field of Expertise: Leadership; organizational transformation; future of work; engagement; motivation; Gen Z and Y; innovation; customer care; CSR; corporate purpose

News & events

Events

Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

Events

AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

2010

California Management Review article won The best academic article award in France

Best Business book award (twice)

Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award (twice)

Research and expertise

Field of Expertise: Leadership; organizational transformation; future of work; engagement; motivation; Gen Z and Y; innovation; customer care; CSR; corporate purpose

News & events

Events

Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

Events

AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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Academic Articles

2024

The Liberated Company Theoretical Concept: Current Issues and the Intimidating Complexity of Organizational Design

Other Intellectual Contributions

2024

What sets companies apart that can continue to innovate at low cost?

Other Intellectual Contributions

2024

Why Gore creates more innovation than Dupont

Chapters

2023

Entreprise libérée et créativité

Chapters

2023

Entreprise libérée et créativité

Academic Articles

2022

Impact of empowering leadership on emotional exhaustion

Books

2022

L'entreprise altruiste

Chapters

2021

Entretien

Chapters

2021

L’organisation qui dit « oui » à ses salariés

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

The altruistic enterprise: How a company can actually succeed by doing good

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

Events

Marconi Foundation Annual Award

2010

Best Business book award (twice)

Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award (twice)

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

Events