Leading for Innovation

Will I RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE UPON PROGRAM COMPLETION?

• Participants will receive an École des Ponts Business School certificate of completion.

WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION?

• English

WHAT ARE THE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS?

• Minimum 7 years of work experience at the start of the program (exceptions can be made for high-potential recent graduates from graduate-level degree programs).
• Proficiency in business English.

WHAT ARE THE FEES AND FINANCING OPTIONS?

Regular tuition fee: €10.700

• Early-bird rate (valid for those who apply before April 28): €7.900
• This fee includes:
  • 5-day in-person program
  • 1 online follow-up session
  • Lunches, tea & coffee during the in-person immersive workshop days
  (lunches are an integral part of the program)

WHAT IS THE PROGRAM DURATION?

• The program consists of 43 hours delivered over 5 days (Monday-Friday) as an in-person immersive workshop.•
• The program hours are: from Monday to Thursday from 9am to 6pm; Friday from 9am to 4pm.
• Participants must commit to fully attending in person all five days.
• A short essay (1-2 pages) about the current innovation challenge the participant is facing is required.
• An additional online follow-up session will be held about one month after the program. The participation will be on a voluntary basis.

WHAT IS THE CLASS SIZE?

• 20 - 50 participants

WHERE WILL I STUDY?

• In-person immersive workshop (5 days) Paris, France
• Follow-up session (voluntary): online

HOW IS THE CAMPUS ACCESSIBLE? CAN YOU ACCOMMODATE DISABILITIES?

• The school and the programs delivered are accessible to all. Should you have any challenges or disabilities, please get in touch with Ms. Gabrielle CESSLIN (cesselin@pontsbschool.com) so that we can make special arrangements or adjustments for you.

DO YOU HOLD THE 'QUALIOPI' LABEL OF QUALITY?

• École des Ponts Business School is Qualiopi Certified. Quality certification was issued for the following category: training actions.

HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU?

• For questions on the program content, please contact Chiara Ghidelli: chiara@architectz.eu.
• For questions on the campus, registration, tuition and group discounts, please contact François Blanchet: blanchet@pontsbschool.com

WHAT IS THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE PROGRAM?

Launching for the first time in Paris in 2025, “L4i • Leading for Innovation” is brought to École des Ponts Business School by Maurizio Travaglini and Architects Of Group Genius. It is an immersive and collaborative leadership development experience, designed to enable executives and managers to reframe their perspectives on how to face situations of complexity and uncertainty, while evolving their approach to real innovation-related challenges.“Real Life” over “Case Studies”

• Participants’ real-life experiences are the subject of their work and reflection. They will choose and bring to the program an innovation-related challenge that is critical to them, using it as both a “live case study” and a tool for their development. Practice over Theory
• Learning modules are primarily focused on active experimentation. Participants will apply new approaches to their work, using theory and frameworks to help ground their new learnings.Collaborative over Individual
• The approach to teamwork and co-design is unusual and extremely collaborative. Participants will join a social process of developing new ways of thinking, being, and acting, together with their peers who face similar challenges and are on a similar developmental journey.Emergent over Fixed
• The pedagogy is designed to expand the participants’ capacity to improvise. Participants will work in a learning environment where they will grapple with complexity and uncertainty, and learn how to better approach them in a protected space.

ADMISSIONS – HOW CAN I JOIN THE PROGRAM?

To submit your application:

• Complete this form to share some details about you and your current work.
• We will review your application and contact you about the next steps.
• You can decide to join as an individual participant, or with a small team. Sending two or more representatives from your organization may amplify the program’s impact.

WHAT IS THE SCHEDULE OF THE PROGRAM?

• June 2025 - Program Preparation
  Participants are required to write a short essay (1-2 pages) about the challenge they will choose to bring to the program. This constitutes the starting point of the work they will perform during the in-person immersive workshop.
• Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 4, 2025 - In-Person Immersive Workshop in Paris, France
  A full week aimed at supporting participants’ efforts to increase their capacity for innovation, as well as in their organization and their team(s). This journey of discovery will help participants better understand how to increase their capacity for deep work, deal with complexity, diagnose adaptive challenges, create the context for high-performing teams, lead new experiments, and develop a better approach to creative problem-solving.
• Fall 2025 (date to be confirmed) - Online Follow-up Session
  An optional half-day to consolidate your learnings, share your experimentations and get feedback from your peers.

WHAT IS YOUR TEACHING METHODOLOGY?

• The L4i pedagogy is based on a combination of practice and reflection supported by a variety of theories and frameworks. It’s grounded in the work on “Collective Genius” by prof. Linda Hill (Harvard Business School) and “Adaptive Leadership” by Prof. Ron Heifetz (Harvard Kennedy School), and enriched by the studies of Prof. Amy Edmondson, Prof. Robert Kegan, Dr. Brené Brown, Sir Ken Robinson, Richard Pascale, Matt and Gail Taylor.
• Participants will shift from active work in small groups to individual assignments (writing, journaling, mapping, reading) to facilitated plenary conversations, where collective “sense-making” will push everyone’s thinking to a higher level.

HOW WILL YOU ASSESS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT?

• The acquisition of skills will be assessed by the teaching team through tutored activities and workshop productions.
• Certificates will be given to participants who successfully complete the in-person session.
• Participation in the online follow-up session is voluntary.