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Alain Gauthier’s current focus
as a consultant, facilitator, and educator is on executive team development as
a prerequisite for cultivating deep and lasting change in organizations. A
graduate from H.E.C. (Paris) and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, he has
served over the past 39 years a large variety of client organizations in
France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada and the
United States. He first worked as
a senior associate of McKinsey & Company in Europe, then as a partner of a
Paris-based consulting firm, and is currently Executive Director of Core Leadership Development in
Oakland, CA. Over the years, he has broadened his experience from strategic
management and organization design to leadership, team and network development.
His clients have ranged from large European and
American corporations such as EADS, CarnaudMetalbox, Hewlett-Packard, Schneider
Electric, and Shell to a number of not-for-profit healthcare and educational
institutions, several large international consulting firms, medium-size
industrial companies and service firms, as well as two young presidents
organizations. He is currently
engaged in the development of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
(GAIN), in partnership with several UN Agencies. Prior to his move from France
to California in early 1986, he was general manager of an international
publishing firm, while developing and teaching business policy courses at the
Lyons Graduate School of Business.
Over the
last sixteen years, Alain Gauthier has concentrated his consulting,
facilitating, and educational work on new approaches to collaborative
leadership development and organizational learning issues, such as how to:
· clarify, share and enrich an organization’s purpose
and vision of success as a prerequisite for more innovative strategies,
effective teamwork and stronger individual involvement;
· build or reinforce people’s commitment to their work
and organization, while acknowledging individual differences and approaches;
· arrive at a shared understanding of current reality
as a basis for challenging prevailing mental models, and redesigning structures
and systems to channel individual energies toward inspired organizational
performance;
· help develop creative leadership at all levels,
providing the atmosphere for accelerated individual growth and team learning;
· adopt a developmental perspective in growing an
organization’s human capital, starting with senior executives and using state-of-the-art
instruments to assess levels of development.
To this end, Alain conducts two major types of
seminars in North America and Europe: public leadership development courses and
in-house executive team-building sessions around shared visions and values, as
well as mental models and systems thinking. In both cases, the approach calls
for a preliminary clarification of one’s desired contribution and for an
understanding of the individual and collective structures that limit people’s
creative potential; it also combines systems thinking, personal dynamics and
dialogue in building a shared vision of success and assessing reality. Alain
has brought in approaches to complexity and living systems in two recent
programs Building Sustainable Partnerships at the Edge of Chaos and Rediscovering Organizational Vitality.
Alain also delivers presentations and keynote
addresses on organizational learning and leadership development in North
America and Europe, and is an active member of the Society for Organizational
Learning (SoL), the former MIT Organizational Learning Center. He is a founder,
key facilitator and Chair of the Development Committee of SoL France, and a
member of the Steering Committee of the Global SoL Network. Alain is also a
trustee of Pathways to Peace, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
peace-building activities.
Alain has supervised and prefaced the French
adaptation of Peter Senge’s highly acclaimed book The Fifth Discipline: The
Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, as well as two of its sequels: The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and The Dance of Change – The Challenges of
Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations. He contributed to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and is a co-author of two books: Learning
Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow’s Workplace and Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and
Transformative Leadership. Alain has
designed and taught courses at John F. Kennedy University for their
Organizational Leadership Program and is a visiting professor for the
International MBA Program at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in
Paris. He devotes approximately half of his time to work outside the United
States.
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Alain Gauthier |
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Alain Gauthier a une expérience de
consultant, de dirigeant et d’éducateur dans les domaines du management
stratégique, de l’organisation et du développement d’équipes dirigeantes.
Diplômé d’H.E.C. et M.B.A. Stanford, il a servi depuis 38 ans une grande
variété d’entreprises européennes et nord-américaines, tout d’abord comme
consultant chez McKinsey & Company, puis comme associé d’une firme de
conseil parisienne. Il est actuellement Executive Director de Core Leadership
Development à Oakland, Californie.
Parmi ses clients
figurent des groupes tels que CarnaudMetalbox, EADS, EDF-GDF, La Poste, Groupe
Schneider, Penton Media, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Dutch Shell, Sony-France
ainsi que d’autres entreprises de service, des établissements hospitaliers, des
instituts d’enseignement et des associations de chefs d’entreprise. Avant son
implantation en Californie fin 1985, il a été également directeur général d’une
société d’édition internationale, professeur de politique générale au Groupe ESC
Lyon et responsable de recherche à l’Institut de Recherche de l’Entreprise.
Après plusieurs années
de recherche intensive sur les entreprises d’avant-garde, Alain Gauthier
concentre depuis quinze ans ses activités de conseil et d’animation de
séminaires sur de nouvelles approches du développement du leadership et de
l’apprentissage organisationnel, telles que:
· stimuler l’élaboration
d’une vision partagée comme préalable à la mise en oeuvre de stratégies
innovantes, à l’unité d’action en
équipe et à l’implication d’une partie croissante du personnel;
·
clarifier et
faire vivre des valeurs partagées dans l’organisation tout en reconnaissant la
richesse des différences individuelles;
· procéder en équipe à un
examen lucide et systémique de la réalité, et mettre en place des structures
souples canalisant les énergies vers la réalisation de performances collectives
exceptionnelles;
· développer un leadership
créatif à tous les niveaux et établir un climat permettant aux membres de l’entreprise de renouveler leurs modes
de pensée et de fonctionnement, et d’apprendre en permanence, face à l’incertitude
et la complexité.
Alain Gauthier anime
actuellement aux Etats-Unis et en Europe des sessions interentreprises telles
que Fondements de l’Entreprise Apprenante ainsi que des séminaires sur
mesure tels que Vision et Unité d’Action, déjà suivis par plus d’une
centaine d’équipes de direction dont plus d’une trentaine en Europe. Dans les
deux cas, la démarche inclut une clarification préalable par chacun de sa vision
personnelle ainsi qu’une prise de conscience des cartes mentales et
comportements personnels et collectifs qui limitent la capacité créatrice et la
synergie en équipe; elle permet également d’explorer la complémentarité entre
approches intuitive et rationnelle dans la découverte de la vision et la
compréhension d’une réalité complexe.
Alain Gauthier a adapté
en français les trois livres de Peter Senge La Cinquième Discipline, Le
Guide de Terrain et La Danse du Changement, publiés aux Editions First. Il
est également coauteur d’un ouvrage collectif en anglais sur le même thème. Il
intervient comme professeur à l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Cycle
Management International), et a enseigné au CRC, au CEDEP et à l’université
John F. Kennedy en Californie. Il est membre de la Society for Organizational
Learning (SoL) aux Etats-Unis, membre du Comité d’Orientation du Global SoL
Network, co-fondateur et animateur de SoL France, et consacre environ 40% de
son temps à ses activités en Europe.
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Alain Gauthier |
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