Leadership

RACHEL AMATO

PROFESSOR AFFILIATED TO HEC PARIS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Dr Rachel Amato is an Affiliate Professor at HEC Paris Executive Education. She is an experienced management consultant specialized in organizational change and leadership development, an executive coach working with managers and teams and a certified MBTI practitioner.

Rachel has carried out research in the field of organizational change, in particular a study of leadership transitions with Ashridge and HEC Paris: “Leaders in Transition: the dramas of ordinary heroes”, which gave rise to several books.

Rachel has completed a Ph.D. at HEC Paris, holds a Master of Arts (hons) from Oxford University, an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP – France) and an MPhil in organizational sociology from Paris University VII (France).

PATRICK SEASSAU

CONSULTANT IN MANAGEMENT, FINANCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
Patrick Seassau spent 15 years in Investment Banking in London before moving 10 years ago into Learning and Development for Executives, more particularly in the world of finance. He set up several development programmes for the top-executives of major institutions and is strongly involved in the design of distance-learning programmes (MOOC). He is a certified MBTI practitioner Steps I and II.

Patrick is a graduate from HEC Paris (France) and Harvard Kennedy School (Boston) where he studied Leadership development (Art and Practice of Leadership Development).