Expertise: Engagement Leadership, Transformation & Innovation

Céline Schillinger is an award-winning French entrepreneur, change practitioner, and consultant. She has over 30 years of field experience, working with both small and global organizations across several continents. A solid track record on transformation informs Céline’s vision of change, engagement, and leadership.

A blogger since 2013 and a TEDx speaker, she was knighted by the French government for her workplace change efforts. Lessons from her journey in change are captured in Céline’s first book, to be published in May 2022: Dare to Un-Lead: The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World.

 What got us here will not get us there. The context in which we now live, trade, and work in the 21st century has little in common with that of Frederick Taylor or Henry Ford. What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors that harm individuals and societies, and that must be reinvented. Dare to Un-Lead explores the opportunities we have to collectively transform leadership from a top-down hierarchical hegemony to one that is based on empowering people to lead together through the concepts of liberty, equality and community. Change agent Celine Schillinger combines her personal experience in working with others to enact digital-enabled, people-focused collective work practices with a deep analysis of leadership―studied through multiple lenses and timely sources of knowledge―to provide readers with original insights into why these practices work. The result is a series of evidence-based pathways for reinventing collective performance across organizations in a post-pandemic world. From large corporations to small businesses, the lessons learned in this landmark book, implemented individually and collectively over time, will make our workplaces more equal, our jobs more gratifying, and our economies more profitable. And that will make the world a better place.

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"It is a pleasure to work with Sandra and Connect Speakers. The conferences are stimulating and efficiently organised and there is always a lovely personal touch to ensure that all goes smoothly." Linda Yueh, Economist, Writer and Broadcaster