Caroline Verzat is a Professor in the Sustainability Department at ESCP Business School. Her research focuses on action research, which closely combines practical exploration and theoretical research for sustainability education. Her favourite research questions include: How can we educate future leaders to become responsible managers or entrepreneurs, giving priority to caring for the living world over profit maximisation? What are the characteristics of an emancipating educational environment? What is the impact of emotions on learning and on changing mindsets and behaviour fostering sustainability? How can actors be enabled to cope with hidden facets of learning and innovation (failure, hangers-on, conflicts, and the necessary time for long-term changes)? How can artistic techniques help students, managers and teachers reflect on unconscious or embarrassing questions that contribute to climate inaction and the neglect of critical ecological issues?

She is an alumna of École Normale Supérieure and ESSEC. She also holds a PhD in the sociology of Organisations (University Paris IX-Dauphine) and an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Entrepreneurship. She began her career as a consultant in management and organisation, and became a Lecturer in Management at École Centrale de Lille. In 2009, she joined Advancia, the first French school specialised in entrepreneurship, and she joined ESCP Business School in 2017. She is also a member of the Campus de la Transition, a training and research centre for social and ecological transition, and she is an artist specialised in collage-techniques.

 

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Academic Articles

2025

GARCIA QUEVEDO, D., A. GLASER, C. VERZAT

Enhancing Theorization Using Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis of Online Data

ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

Academic Articles

2025

VERZAT, C., N. PRIME

Découvrir ensemble notre commune responsabilité : Carnet de voyage en Afrique avec 18 étudiants du Nord et du Sud

NOTOS, n°7

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

GARCIA QUEVEDO, D., A. GLASER, C. VERZAT

Fast answers, shallow thinking: Reclaiming reflexivity in an accelerated AI world

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-23-EN

Other Intellectual Contributions

2025

GARCIA QUEVEDO, D., A. GLASER, C. VERZAT

Réflexivité et IA : repenser la prise de décision dans un monde accéléré

ECHOS (LES)

Academic Articles

2024

VERZAT, C., C. MAKAYA, A. JACQUEMIN

Artiste et entrepreneur pour la planète – Instituto Terra : s’inspirer de Sebastião et Lélia Salgado pour entreprendre aujourd’hui

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 63(4), 38-34

Chapters

2024

VERZAT, C., J. LECOQ

Learning to Live with Emotions for Transition

In: Pedagogy of the Anthropocene Epoch for a Great Transition, Cécile Renouard · Frédérique Brossard Børhaug Ronan Le Cornec · Jonathan Dawson Alexander Federau · David Ries Perrine Vandecastele · Nathanaël Wallenhorst Springer

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

VERZAT, C., N. PRIME

Europe–Afrique : le voyage apprenant pour découvrir ensemble le leadership responsable

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-66-FR

Academic Articles

2023

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE, N. CARRE

Situations problématiques d’accompagnement, posture herméneutique et place des émotions

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 2023/3

Academic Articles

2023

VERZAT, C., F. BORNARD, S. FOLIARD, S. LE PONTOIS

À la recherche des émotions cachées dans l’accompagnement entrepreneurial

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 56(3), 65-78

Conference Presentations

2023

GARCIA QUEVEDO, D., A. GLASER, C. VERZAT

NLP for Qualitative Analysis: Leveraging Deep Learning to Capture Contextual Meaning

Academy of Management (AOM)