Professor David Sluss – Leadership and Company Growth

David’s big focus right now is high growth companies and helping them tackle the challenge of scaling up.

David M. Sluss, Ph.D. is the “Leading@Scale” Chaired Professor and Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior at ESSEC Business School (FT Ranked Top 10 Globally for Executive Education).

David has travelled the globe for more than 25 years empowering leaders to SCALE UP their careers, their resilience, and their ability to inspire change and hyper-growth within their organizations.

David shares both his award-winning research and heart-felt personal stories from his own career – from starting a record company at 19 years old to being a partner of a consultancy scale-up at the age of 28 to helping organizations build resilient leadership during traumatic & uncertain times.

He focuses on his never-ending quest to provide evidence-based practices. Practices that professionals and leaders can implement immediately in their career and work.

He works with leading global organizations such as: Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola, Danone, Google, and many others… He actively advises hyper-growth startups and scale-ups.

He has published high-impact thought leadership in Harvard Business Review and similar outlets.

David’s Talks and Topics

Future Forward – Scaling up your team’s resilience during uncertainty

Scaling up your team’s resilience is now a “must-have” leadership competency.

Your team and organization needs resilience to (1) respond constructively during a crisis, (2) “bounce forward” (while others are held back) and (3) build agile capabilities.

Based on his Harvard Business Review article and more than a decade’s research, David provides in-person and virtual keynotes (and masterclasses) on how to build your leader’s and team’s resilience.

High-potential leaders and professionals will learn how to:

• Create an “resilience dashboard”
• Encourage and facilitate resilience-building conversations among team members
• Build a customized “perspective broadening” learning question inventory
• Invest in role “crafting” so your team meets the challenges of the “new normal”
• Diagnose leader “patience level” and enact “patience boosters” during & after crisis

Scaling organizational change for hyper-growth

Scaling change and transformation is more than a project – it is the new organizational way. Scaling transformations require strong change leadership capabilities such as strong vision, governance capabilities, and an ability to harness the creative power of those across your organization.

Scaling transformations require you to put the “right” people, in the “right” places, and at the “right” time for organizational innovation and transformation.

Your high-potential leaders and professionals will learn to:

• Create an emotionally-compelling & analytical change “origin story”
• Diagnose the organizational cultural facilitators and barriers for change
• Identifying the “right” leaders for the change effort
• Build your team’s capability to collaborate across silos

Scaling up your career – Don’t wait to L.O.V.E. your job now!

Based on David’s FastCompany article and decades of new employee onboarding research, your high-potential leaders professionals will learn the L.O.V.E. framework to accelerate their career growth within their current role.

That is, they don’t have to wait to scale their career!

Your high-potential leaders and professionals will learn four key questions with inspiring examples for each:

• What more can I LEARN in the current role about process (as well as content) that aligns with my future career self?
• How can I craft my current role to OPEN new clusters of professional connections?
• How can I, in my current role, further provide strategic and/or operational VALUE and VISIBILITY for my future career self?
• How can I find ENJOYMENT in the relationships, tasks, or perspectives within my current role to better align with my future career self?

You people don’t have to WAIT until the next position or promotion or project. Your people can start scaling up their career’s (and their engagement) NOW.

Other keynote & masterclass topics:

• Scaling your organization through agile – the MVP (when P = process)
• Collaboration during “crunch time”
• Agile patience – Going slow to go fast!
• Leading change in the age of AI