Isaac Getz is an author, conference speaker, and Professor in Leadership and Organizational Transformation 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 organisations 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 Business Book Award in France and has been published in 15 countries.
In 2016, Isaac authored La liberté, ça marche!, a finalist for the same 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. In 2025, they expanded on this theme with the publication of The Caring Company: How to Shift Business and the Economy for Good through Wiley—a book that garnered international media acclaim. It has been shortlisted by Thinkers50 for the Beakthrough Idea Award.
Regarding his philosophy of the liberated company, he recently co-authored, with Gilles Arnaud, “The Liberated Company: A Theoretical Concept” in the Journal of Organization Design, offering an in-depth examination of the research developments since the concept’s initial introduction.
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.