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.

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Academic Articles

2024

GETZ, I., G. ARNAUD

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

JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATION DESIGN, 13 (4), 125–145

Other Intellectual Contributions

2024

GETZ, I.

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

JAPAN INNOVATION REVIEW

Other Intellectual Contributions

2024

GETZ, I.

Why Gore creates more innovation than Dupont

JAPAN INNOVATION REVIEW

Chapters

2023

GETZ, I.

Entreprise libérée et créativité

In: La créativité en situations : Théories et applications, N. Bonnardel, F. Girandola, E. Bonetto, T. Lubart Dunod, 173-184

Chapters

2023

POLI, E., G. ARNAUD, I. GETZ

Entreprise libérée et créativité

In: La créativité en situations. Théories et applications, Nathalie Bonnardel, Fabien Girandola, Eric Bonetto, Todd Lubart Dunod, 175-186

Academic Articles

2022

COUGOT, B., N. GILLET, I. GETZ, ET AL.

Impact of empowering leadership on emotional exhaustion

JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, 30 (8), 4234-4250

Books

2022

GETZ, I., L. MARBACHER

L'entreprise altruiste

Flammarion

Chapters

2021

GETZ, I.

Entretien

In: Comment bien vivre la fin de ce monde, Marc Welinski Editions Trédaniel, 209-236

Chapters

2021

GETZ, I.

L’organisation qui dit « oui » à ses salariés

In: Libérer son entreprise, Pierre-Yves Antras Actes Sud

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

GETZ, I., L. MARBACHER

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

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-02-EN