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Profile:
Isaac Getz is a professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School (Paris•London•Berlin•Madrid•Torino) Paris campus, France. He was also Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in Computer Science, and then obtained a M.Sc. in Management Science, and Ph.D.s in Psychology and in Management.
Dr. Getz conducted and published research on diverse topics related to innovation, leadership, excellence, transformation, and freedom and responsibility culture. In 2000, the leading French business review l'Expansion named him among the best 8 professors of Management in Europe.
Dr. Getz is an active speaker on the topics of the freedom and responsability culture, change, liberating leadership and environment for innovation, and gave executive conferences, keynote speeches and training seminars for hundreds of multinational companies and for such organizations as Aspen Institute, Demos Europa, Telecom Italia Nobel Prize Colloquia, Association of European Regions, and Stanford Executive Briefings, as well as for innovation summits with the leading public authorities of Europe, USA, and Africa.
Dr. Getz’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Strategy+Business, Financial Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro, les Echos, La Tribune, Il Sole 24 Ore, Het Financieele Dagblad, De Gelderlander, Il Tempi, France 2, TV5, RAI, CNBC, Fox and other leading media on four continents. He is also a regular contributor to WSJ Opinion pages.
In 2003-2004, Dr. Getz has co-authored a book InnovationsPOWER in German (also in French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish) which details the key role of idea management in improving corporate innovation, and sustainable growth. It was one of the 3 finalists for the Annual Manpower Best Book Award in France.
In 2009, he co-authored with Brian Carney a new acclaimed book Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth with Crown Business/Random House. Editions has appeared already in Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, China, India, and most recently in France under the title Liberté & Cie (Fayard).
In 2010, his “Liberating Leadership” California Management Review article based on the book’s research won the Syntec Annual Award for the best academic article in the category Management/HR/Organization.
