Partners

POTENTIALIFE

Potentialife is an innovative positive model created by Tal Ben Shahar, an internationally renowned expert in positive psychology and neuroscience and a best-selling author, and Angus Ridgway, a leadership development specialist who worked for twenty years at McKinsey & Company. Together, they have developed and conceptualised the SHARP model, an innovative change management process. This process, which integrates a training-action platform, uses new technologies and collective intelligence to encourage positive leadership development and the cultural development of companies.

For almost two decades, the Leadership Development Chair at EDHEC Business School has been convinced that there are incredible leadership resources in every individual. Its job is to train professionals and future professionals to exercise authentic leadership based on reflexivity. In 2016, the Chair organised the first French research conference on "The making of the reflexive manager", a conference accompanied by a special issue of the RIPCO Journal. The Chair is also, and above all, a laboratory for pedagogical innovation in leadership development, which tests, measures and develops ways of learning and strengthening one's leadership by relying on peer groups in management. The team thus shares with all its learners the spirit, concepts and practices of positive psychology.

EDHEC and Potentialife - who signed this partnership on 11 May 2022 - share the ambition of a modern and innovative pedagogy for self-development, which places the learner at the heart of the learning and transformation process, which proves to be a real source of agility for the company. The principle of this partnership is to mix pedagogical innovations with university and company networks to reinforce the respective impacts on students and companies. In concrete terms, Potentialife is already present in the "Emotional Intelligence" course of the EDHEC Master 1 and also occupies an important place in the "Positive and Reflexive Leadership" Certificate in the EDHEC Master 2 with a first class that will graduate on 21 April 2022.
 

NURTURING SCHOOL-BUSINESS INTERACTION ON THE ISSUE OF LEADERSHIP

"Make an Impact” with teams and leaders

Benefit from the expertise and pedagogical innovation of the Chair

• Change your representation of the world, your beliefs and your attitude thanks to products and methodologies that are unique in the world.
   
• Be supported in your leadership development strategy: integration of the Chair in the steering committees at corporate level.
   

Implementation of an annual action plan

Action-research programmes linked to the latest research work

• Co-hosting courses and seminars with EDHEC professors, interventions by leaders.
   
• Through unique programmes (Leadership Course, Reflective Leader Course, etc.), preparing teams for managerial positions and facilitating Management Committees: original training based on the latest research, customised training at preferential rates, Agility Leadership training.
   

Supporting EDHEC students and strengthening its employer brand

• Contribute to the EDHEC Group's programmes - 13 different programmes, annual "Inspirations for Leadership" conferences, co-writing of educational cases.
   
• Sponsoring student projects around managerial innovation, giving visibility to the partnership through the publication of educational tools accompanying students throughout their course (Learning Journals).