Sylvie Gendreau is an author and executive coach who has advised senior executives across North America and Europe for over twenty-five years. Her essays explore how imagination and collective intelligence shape leadership; her speculative fiction asks what happens when science outruns conscience. The Atelier on Rue Daguerre opens her novel cycle The Thread.
A World Economic Forum Agenda contributor, she wrote a column on innovation for The Conversation France for two and a half years. Her opinion pieces have appeared in Management, Slate.fr, HuffPost, Ouest-France, Psychologies, La Presse, Les Echos, France Info, La Tribune and Contrepoints.
Founder of La Nouvelle École de Créativité and of the online publications Le Nouveau Leadership, Les Cahiers de l'imaginaire and The Innovative Mind, she taught creativity to doctoral students at Polytechnique Montréal for ten years.
Every talk is designed with the host. Two starting points: a keynote on strategic vision and collective intelligence, drawn from Seeing; a reading and conversation around The Thread, on what happens when science outruns conscience.
Sylvie Gendreau has spoken to audiences ranging from executive seminars of twenty to keynotes of 25,000.
Hands-on creativity workshops in the spirit of La Nouvelle École de Créativité. Each workshop is built around the group's own project or question: generating ideas, thinking collectively, turning imagination into decisions.
