What I speak about:

  1. Dare to Un-Lead: relational leadership for a fragmented world. Why leadership must become a collective capacity, and how to build it.

  2. Change as a movement. How internal networks mobilize people more widely and sustainably than any change program.

  3. Leading the AI transition with people, not at them. What current research says about agency, networks and community when AI enters the workplace.

  4. Collective performance. Turning an organization into a resilient, high-performing network.

 

Speaking history:  

2026

  • How to Lead the AI Transformation, in a Human Way? - For a private client, Milan (Oct. 22, 2026)

  • How to Make Transformation Work - For a private client, Berlin (July 2026)

  • Emergent Transformation - A workshop for internal Transformation Leaders, with Emerging World (July 2026)

  • Relational Leadership and Leading Change in Complex Systems - A course for executive IT leaders - Mastère Spécialisé MSIT — Mines Paris-PSL  (June 2026)

2025

  • High Tech, High Touch - Roundtables for HR executives, Istanbul Turkey & Riyad KSA - With Amsterdam Tech (May 2025)

2024

  • What is Growth Leadership? - For a private client, Paris (Oct. 1, 2024)

  • Contribution to Agile World 2024, Munich (July 1-2, 2024)

  • How to Connect and Amplify your Organization’s Stories. Social Now, Lisbon (May 16, 2024)

  • Leadership Espresso, by ICG Integrated Consulting Group - online (Apr 11, 2024)

2023

  • Leadership & Momentum. Australasian Change Days, online (Aug. 24-25, 2023)

  • Women’s Equality Day LinkedIn Live, with the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Women of Color Affinity Group (Aug. 24, 2023)

  • Developing a Digital Culture: Can a Business Change Its Culture? For BrightTALK, online (July 27, 2023)

  • Global Voices: Engaged Leadership. For members of the Change Management Institute, online (June 22, 2023)

  • Embracing uncertainty. For a private client Global Patient Access event, Hungary (June 2023)

  • Powerful Together. For a private client leadership team meeting, Germany (May 2023)

  • We Can Work Better. For a private client leadership team meeting, Spain (March 2023)

2022

2021

  • Kotter Change Essentials Intensive. Two series of 8 executive courses each, for a corporate client. Throughout November-December 2021

  • Stakeholder Management, Influencing & Collaboration. A series of 4 executive courses, for a corporate client. Throughout November 2021

  • High-Performing Teams. For a corporate client, Paris Nov. 15-16

  • Understanding and leading change. A Masterclass for NextGen. Oct. 18, 2021

  • Community Leadership. For The Community Roundtable Connect 2021. Oct. 13, 2021

  • Activist-driven change. For ESCP Master’s students. Oct. 7, 2021

  • Leadership for High Performing Teams. For a corporate client. Oct. 5, 2021

  • Building and sustaining urgency. For a corporate client. Sept. 21 & 23, 2021

  • Courageous Leadership. For a corporate client. Sept. 22, 2021

  • Quality as a Movement for Change. For Darqa, Amsterdam September 17, 2021

  • Taking Action in a Constrained World. For a corporate client. July 13, 2021

  • Engagement Leadership. For Vilesta. June 1, 2021

  • Transformation and Impact. For a corporate client. May 25, 2021

  • Self-organizing teams. For the European Commission. March 2021

  • Work freed from power imbalances: a utopia? For a corporate client. Feb. 25, 2021

2020

  • How can we get better at being apart in 2021? Feb. 3, 2021. For Coolr

  • Cooperative Performance. For a corporate client. Jan. 28, 2021

  • On agency, seeing systems and changing. For Emerging World, Jan. 20, 2021

  • Engagement in a semi-virtual world. For a corporate client. Nov. 27, 2020

  • Elevating employee experience. Podcast with Josh Drean, Oct. 16, 2020

  • Corporate Activism. For a corporate client, Oct. 8, 2020

  • Communities and the future of work. For TheCR Connect, Oct. 7, 2020

  • Self-organizing teams. For the European Commission Learning & Development Panel, Sept. 23, 2020

  • Engagement Leadership. For the IOM Summit, online, Aug. 26, 2020

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2019

  • Change Leadership at Work. For Decathlon, Dec. 16, 2019 - Brussels, Belgium

  • International Career and Entrepreneurship. For UCLY ESTRI School for International Careers, Sept. 24, 2019 - Lyon, France

  • How to Make Change Happen. At IOM Summit, September 17, 2019 - Köln, Germany

  • Engaging people into change using John Kotter’s approach. For the Lean Enterprise Institute Poland, Wroclaw, June 12, 2019

  • Leadership is broken. Can digital help? Social Now 2019, Lisbon. June 5-6, 2019 | See the video and the slides here

  • Innovation workshop. At Innov8tors, Paris April 10-12, 2019

  • Passion: how it can boost (or not) your projects. For International au Féminin, Paris, March 12, 2019

  • Diversity, Inclusion & Change Agents. For a pharmaceutical company (London), Feb. 8, 2019

2018

  • How to foster innovation through a diverse workplace? French Founders, Boston, April 24

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2017

  • Cercle Inter'Elles (Paris, June 20, 2017)

  • ASAP Global Alliance Summit (San Diego, Feb. 28-March 2, 2017) "Comfort in Discomfort: Leadership & Innovation Lessons from an Uncommon Alliance"

2016

2015

  • The Future of Work Forum "Quality Mindset. Unleashing employee activism for change" (New York City, October 21-22 2015 - for the FOW Community)

  • French Marketers: "Agility, Transformation and New Business Models" (Boston, Oct. 5th 2015)

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2014

  • Rotary Club: "Les Réseaux peuvent-ils changer le monde ?" (October 28th, Annonay France)

  • Rencontres MET: Les nouveaux modes de collaboration en entreprise (Collaborative work in the enterprise - June 24th 2014, Lyon) | Video [FR]

2013

  • IntraNetwork Digital Workplace Working Group (September 12th 2013, Paris) about community building for engagement and corporate culture change.

“Celine Schillinger: co-creation, social networks & leadership transformation”

— 35 top women keynote speakers about all things innovation you need to follow right now | By Laurence Van Elegem, Nexxworks | March 2022

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