Axelle Bagot

Affiliate

Axelle Bagot

Leadership Studies, Sociology, Adaptive Leadership Group Dynamics, Systems Dynamics, Group Psychology Adult Development

BIOGRAPHY

Axelle Bagot’s work focuses on the exercise of leadership and social transformation in complex and challenging systems. As a professor, an executive coach and an organizational consultant, she combines insights from sociology, system dynamics, psychology and philosophy to create spaces in which people can expand their capacity for diagnosing and transforming themselves and larger structures. Axelle began her work in this area by advising elected ocials, policy makers and diplomats in her ten-year career in public service, working at the French Embassy in Syria, the Paris City Hall Department of International Relations and the City Hall of Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 2018, she co-founded her consulting rm, Leadership Lab International, which brings together researchers, leadership practitioners, and executive coaches to achieve human centered, strategic and sustainable organizational transformation.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCES IN SIMILAR PROGRAMS

Axelle has taught courses allowing graduate students and executives to think in
new ways about leadership, innovation and social change in several institutions,
including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Watson Institute at
Brown University, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Birmingham
Leadership Institute, the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, the African
Development University in Niger. She also teaches workshops for organizations
such as UNICEF, the Paris Peace Forum, the Young Southeast Asian Leaders
Initiative or the Albert Einstein Medical School of Sao Paulo. She is recognized for
her capacity to create non-traditional spaces for conversations about leadership
and risk taking where people are oered to challenge themselves and unlock their
leadership potential.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

OCP (Morocco), Golden Globes (USA), Malala Fund (UK), Microsoft (USA), MIT Solve (USA), Azalaï Hotel Group (West Africa), Aga Khan Foundation (USA), ABSA Barclays (Mauritius), Emmaüs Foundation (France)

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

USA, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Niger, Brazil, Spain, France

FILIATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

Distinguish Crisis from Disaster: 5 Notes for Making Decisions, May 2020, European
Business Review