Why should we focus on career and self-development?

At first, we start with a career plan, which becomes our goal or dream. We follow our plan to move forward. But of course, dreaming is not enough, we have to put in a lot of hard work to realise our dream. So self-development impacts our career, but at the same time, our career affects self-development. They complement each other, and this determines whether our career is successful or not.

There will be a Food for Thought session on Career Development during which there will be the opportunity to discuss the following questions:

1. Why should you take care of your career and self-development: VUCA and Employee autonomy
2. A career is led by a dream and by your values - What is yours? Sharing personal experiences
3. Who will know if you don't tell? Stakeholders management
4. Self-development is related to learning, from Confucius to HEC
5. Best practices with EMBA alumni, what you have learnt following the program and specific zoom on the Capstone project

Speakers:

Anne-Claire de Lavigerie

Corporate Experience:

After spending 13 years as Head of the Sales and Marketing division and as a board member of major companies such as Procter and Gamble, Group Hachette and EMAP France, Mrs. de Lavigerie has become Associate Director of “Etudes et Conseil”. Since 2002, she has been designing customized in-company training programs, and has spent 13 years as a consultant, specializing in the following fields: Management, Communication and Cooperation, Cohesion among board members, Change Management, Innovation Processes and Executive Coaching.

Research Interests:

Mrs. de Lavigerie is a Lecturer at the ESCP Europe, HEC Executive, SciencePo, Tongji and Xiamen University, and her research interests include Negotiation, Leadership, Management, Public speaking and assertiveness. She has been an advisor to the HEC Chinese executive MBA for 4 years. She also contributes to the Encyclopedia of Executive Governance (“Circular thinking in management” 2007, Eyrolles) as well as The Expansion Management Review (“The seven sins of top management”, December 2006 issue; “Les pièges de la pluri-intervention”, March 2009 issue). In China, she has published an article in Connections on “Initiative in China”. She also designs customized In-company training programs, integrating corporate culture and intercultural stakes.

Specialty areas

Management and Communication

1. Dynamics and cohesion (boards of directors, project teams, operational teams)
2. Leadership, team motivation and coaching
3. Intercultural communication and management

Coaching and Managing Change

1. Facilitating innovation processes (new organization, new team or new mindset to set up…), identifying stakes and developing awareness, proposing adapted change methodology
2. Communicating and training efficiently
3. Executive coaching at C-level (transition coaching, professional development and mature leadership)

Alumni:

Rachel Ji (HEC EMBA Participant)

Rachel Ji joined Bertelsmann in 2000, consecutively leading Corporate Communications and Human Resources for Bertelsmann’s largest division in China. She set up the Corporate Human Resource function when Bertelsmann China Corporate Center was established in 2008. She has been dedicated to HR strategic and operational initiatives for new business entry, existing businesses’ restructuring and transformation, as well as 50 local internet portfolios invested by BAI, the corporate investments. She has also made significant contributions to employer branding and talent development, which have brought great value to the business. She is a member of the Bertelsmann Management Representation Committee, which is responsible for inter-cultural development across countries in the corporate world.

Clothilde Yang (HEC EMBA Participant)

Since 2002, Clothilde has worked for L'Oreal as PR director in Communication & Corporate Affairs. Her responsibility includes corporate image, government affairs, media relations, new media spread, enterprise social responsibility, staff internal communication. Clothilde has 14 years work experience in public relations and brand communication. She has also worked for L'Oreal France for 2 years.

Nicolas Amouroux (HEC EMBA 2014 Participant)

"The EMBA was a great opportunity to enlarge my skills for the transition from R&D to General Management" 

After receiving an Engineer degree from ESPCI and PhD from College de France Paris in the field of Material Science in 1998, Nicolas Amouroux had several assignments in R&D for Arkema, a French Chemical Major in France and Japan. He was involved in development of Performance Polymers for Automotive & EE. Since 2012, and has been General Manager of Resichina, Changshu, the Chinese subsidiary of Kem One Innovative Vinyls dedicated to manufacture and sales of Soft Plastics for Car Interior Decoration.

Event information:

Contact：Nancy WANG

Telephone：021-64373150, 135 6448 2515

E-mail: nancywang@cciparis.net

This event is free and will be delivered in English. You are welcome to bring guests.