Olivier Truong | ESCP Business School

Olivier Truong

Campus : Paris

Olivier is a Senior Fellow at ESCP. He is also an affiliate professor of organizational change and leadership at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and a lecturer in negotiation at Sorbonne University. As a speaker and consultant, he supports organizations in their transformation, accelerates change, and enhances performance. He is also a certified executive coach. His mission is to help individuals make sense of their professional journey and fully unlock their potential. As a management professor, his expertise is built on three key pillars: Extensive experience as a leader and operational manager in the corporate world. A strong academic background, having started his career in research in the humanities, social sciences, and organizational psychology. A specialization in management based on care and trust. Over his 25-year career, Olivier has held leadership and operational roles in both start-ups and large corporations, most recently serving as an Executive Committee member at an international logistics company. He was involved in the creation of start-ups in email marketing and geomarketing and has worked for PwC, Vivendi, Groupe La Poste, La Banque Postale, and GeoPost. In 2020, he founded his consulting and coaching firm, Care and Connect. For several years, he has been a management expert at APM (Association Progrès du Management), where he has trained over 1,200 CEOs and business leaders. He has co-authored several influential books on leadership, including: The Ways of Management (Eska, 2015) Daring to Care in Organizations: Utopia or Reality? (Eyrolles, 2017) – Winner of the 2018 DCF Award for Best Management Book. I Manage with Caring (Eyrolles, 2019) – Selected as a "Gem" book by HEC in 2020. I Manage Through Trust (Eyrolles, 2020). Out of Meaning (Dunod, 2021). The Secrets of Engagement (EMS, 2025). He holds: A Master’s in Management from ESCP (MiM 1996). A Master’s in Coaching and Consulting for Change from HEC (2003). A PhD in Management Science from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Summa cum laude, 2007). A Certificate in Leadership and Negotiations from Harvard Kennedy School (2013). A Master’s in Organizational Change from INSEAD (2013). A Certificate in Leadership for Senior Executives from Harvard Business School (2021).

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Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

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

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

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach

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Legacy imprints and categorization shifts: how interpretations of job demands and resources change in abrupt transitions to virtual work

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Trash to Treasure: Design Principles for Developing Cascading and Repurposing Business Models through Systemic Stakeholder Collaboration

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Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams

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Enabling local solutions to global challenges: The interplaybetween paradox knots and paradox salience in a Non-Governmental Organization working in Uganda

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What makes a good review article? Empirical evidence from management and organization research

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The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations

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The buffering role of anti-violence human resource management practices in shaping how police officers cope with workplace violence

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Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics

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