Created 50 years ago, CEDEP is a not-for-profit executive education club, providing a unique and safe space to reflect, explore, collaborate, (peer)learn, grow and act. We are a strong ecosystem of leaders, organisations and faculty that co-designs programs to address strategic needs.
We empower leaders, enabling them to shape their organisations for a more sustainable, profitable, socially responsible and positive impact. We nurture a thought-provoking experience that tackles real life challenges in a collaborative environment.
Based in France, but operating globally, we deliver programs from various international locations, in person or online via live sessions, or hybrid with a blend of both. We are at the forefront of identifying and responding to emerging global trends with innovative, highly relevant and action-based learning.
To effectively navigate the complex, inter-connected and ever-changing business world, we need to challenge conventional perspectives. CEDEP’s raison d’être is to achieve this via transformational leadership development.
We believe in collective intelligence to embrace new perspectives and shape sustainable solutions. That’s why we’ve created a diverse community of innovative minds with different interests and fresh ideas. Our members build on shared values to imagine tailor-made programs together.
We design our programs to put people at the centre. To bring out the best in leaders, we allow them to escape the daily grind and to take the time to put things into perspective. It’s a moment ‘apart’ to reflect on their journey, try new things, and nurture their minds
We enable leaders to build the future they envision for their organisations. We address the real challenges they might face by adopting a hands-on approach to leadership training. We dare to question established ideas and go off the beaten track to empower leaders to shake things up.
At CEDEP, we offer a unique space where international members from diverse and non-competing industries exchange best practices and fresh ideas. While each leader is competitive in their respective fields, our emphasis is on creating a collaborative space. We carefully chose our members to maintain a trusted environment where each leader can speak freely, and be heard fully.
We are co-run and co-governed by our international member companies from diverse and non-competing industries who are actively engaged in our management, strategy and board within a unique spirit of trust and shared values. With an average membership duration of 15 years, we are built on long term, close relationships and operate as a collaborative learning community.
CEDEP members are diverse non-competing private and public companies therefore creating a safe space for sharing and collaboration. Members can freely express their current challenges and discover how they are tackled in other industries. Please get in touch if you:
• Believe in building or transforming your organisation through the development of your leaders
• Are looking to co-create programs tailored to your specific context
• Want to actively engage with CEDEP members to leverage our collective intelligence
• Wish to benefit from a large network of experts and professors from the world’s top business schools
Why join CEDEP? by Silas Egelund Volfing, Corporate VP of HR & NNE
A club member since 1969, Bekaert is a world leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. The company was founded in 1880 and now has 28,000 employees worldwide with headquarters in Belgium.
A club member since 2006, BioMérieux has been a global leader in in vitro diagnostics for more than 55 years. bioMérieux provides diagnostic solutions which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and ensure consumer safety. The company is headquartered in France.
A club member since 2008, Brambles is a supply-chain logistics company that specialises in the pooling of unit-load equipment and associated services, focusing on the outsourced management of pallets, crates and containers. Brambles operates in more than 60 countries with headquarters in Australia.
A club member since 2018, Daher is an aircraft manufacturer and an industry and service equipment supplier. The company designs and develops products and systems that respond to critical issues in the aerospace sector: Daher was founded in 1863 and is now present in 13 countries with headquarters in France.
A club member since 2020, Garrett Advancing Motion is the world’s leading pioneer of turbo technologies used by nearly every major global auto maker. The company was founded in 1936 and now has over 7,500 employees, 5 R&D centers and 13 manufacturing plants worldwide with headquarters in Switzerland.
A club member since 2016, ITT and sales offices is a leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and oil and gas markets. ITT is headquartered in the United States with employees in more than 35 countries and sales in approximately 125 countries.
A club member since 1969 and the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal has devoted itself business to beauty for over a century with a mission of offering all women and men worldwide the best of cosmetics innovation in terms of quality, efficacy and safety.
A club member since 2011, Moët Hennessy is the Wines and Spirits division of LVMH. The company has a range of 22 wines and spirits brands like no other in the world. The company has headquarters in France.
A club member since 2017, NNE is an international company specialised in pharma engineering that helps pharmaceutical companies bring products to market. The company has close to 2,000 professionals delivering global knowledge and best practices at 3 locations around the world, with headquarters in Denmark.
A club member since 1978. Renault is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches, aircraft and aircraft engines, and autorail vehicles. Renault has been linked to the Japanese manufacturers Nissan since 1999 and Mitsubishi since 2017, through the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, which is the world's leading automobile manufacturer.
A club member since 2008, Safe is an international industrial group founded in 1968 that produces technical components in cast steel and injection molded plastic for the transportation sector, for public works and mining machinery and for industrial furnaces. The company employs over 3k employees in 14 countries and 3 continents with its headquarters in Switzerland.
A club member since 1990, Tata Steel is among the top steel producing companies in the world. It’s one of the world's most geographically-diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world. Tata Steel operates in 26 countries with key operations in India, Netherlands and United Kingdom with its largest plant located In Jamshedpur.
A club member since 2005, Viridien (previously known as CCG) is a global geoscience technology leader. Viridien provides a comprehensive range of data, products, services and equipment that supports the discovery and responsible management of the Earth’s natural resources. The company has around 4,600 people worldwide with headquarters in France.
As a highly engaged and collaborative learning community, our members, faculty and experts from our broader ecosystem meet regularly at several CEDEP-organised events throughout the year. We also meet on an ad-hoc basis when and where convenient to support each other, share expertise and exchange ideas.
Composed of our members’ HR and L&D experts, the Committee meets to provide opportunities to share and learn from each other’s corporate leadership development programs, review the relevance of the programs designed for the community and discuss potential new ones according to their emerging needs. It is also a place to share new, exciting and unconventional content and present new faculty and community experts. The Committee is also an exceptional platform for networking. Members engage with CEDEP, meet new members, exchange and experiment together.
The Content Lab brings together members from the CEDEP community to cover current and emerging themes concerning business today. It is a day of reflection and experience sharing in a free environment, a valued time to look at how we can develop the business of tomorrow.
A small intimate group of senior academics from top business schools, with years of business acumen and personal experience, prepare and lead the day. They challenge and innovate current pedagogical methods, and identify new content for debate and research as leading themes for the CEDEP community. Themes are summarised and then developed further to produce content for future CEDEP programs.A small intimate group of senior academics from top business schools, with years of business acumen and personal experience, prepare and lead the day. They challenge and innovate current pedagogical methods, and identify new content for debate and research as leading themes for the CEDEP community. Themes are summarised and then developed further to produce content for future CEDEP programmes.
The Design Day brings together L&D experts from our member companies together with our specially selected faculty and experts. It is CEDEP’s engine to collectively create value-adding leadership development programs and go beyond the off-the-shelf offering.
Within the close and trusting relationship of our community, members are invited to share their challenges and business context. Together, we combine different ways of learning (teaching, experience, shock, play around with different components) to address development needs and promote deeper learning. The exercise is enriched by member experience, cross-industry knowledge and CEDEP’s distinctive way for opening minds and doing things differently.
Participants leave the event inspired with new methodologies and new topics, and up to three designs almost ready for implementation. The Design Day acts as an energy booster.
The Ecosystem Day is a key event for the entire CEDEP community. Alumni, members’ HR and L&D experts, faculty, board members and our management team meet for an inspiring, innovative and explorative program. It is also a unique opportunity to meet unexpected people and reconnect with one another. The program alternates a series of booths for experiences and exchange of new ideas, keynotes by prominent speakers, panels of alumni and learning partners and deckchair electives, and ends with a memorable festive evening. This event entertains curiosity of learning and reinforces the sense of belonging to the CEDEP meeting of minds.
CEDEP’s Faculty Day provides an inspiring opportunity for our faculty community to come together to share the latest CEDEP initiatives and collectively reflect on how to develop the leaders of tomorrow. The day is filled with thought-provoking discussions, inspirational keynotes and collective reflections and underpins our dedication to inspiring leaders to solve strategic, leadership and culture challenges and make their organisations more productive and sustainable.
With more than 20,000+ participants, our alumni community builds strong relationships due to the dynamic, highly participative, small group nature of our programs. Many continue to share their experiences and best practices, helping and supporting each other after their formal programs have ended.
If you would like to officially join our alumni community, learn about alumni events or create your own, please get in touch with our Senior Dircetor – Sales, Marketing and Communication, Muriel Pailleux at muriel.pailleux@cedep.com.
Sharing a unique spirit of trust and shared values, CEDEP’s senior leadership team collaborates with our member companies and takes shared ownership and accountability in delivering world class programs that build value, sustainability and deliver business results.
Christina orisich
Managing Director
MARIE-ROSE NICOLAS
Chief Financial Officer
VALÉRIE WOLTERS
Operations Director
ravi shankar
Director Academics and Programs
Muriel Pailleux
Senior Director - Sales, Marketing & Communication
bertrand gibert
Chief Operating Officer
Member companies co-own and co-govern CEDEP and can leverage the expertise and contacts of other members. No other educational institution offers companies the opportunity to participate actively and strongly influence the development of its curricula. Members are represented on the board and also form Strategic Committees.
thomas HINTERSEER
Président of the board
Jérôme stoll
CEDEP Vice President, Président of Renault Sport Racing
ANJALI RAINA
Executive Director, Harvard Business School Indian research center
Elisabeth araujo
Managing Director Europe Zone, Active Cosmetics Division, L'Oréal
julien fayet
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Schoolab
Valérie Leyldé
Executive Vice President, HR & Communication Biomérieux
Rémi Riou
Operating Partner, ONEIDA
ATRAYEE S SANYAL
Vice President HRM, Tata Steel
Frédéric Schwartz
Corporate President, Safe Group
robert brunck
Chairman & CEO of Transvalor
Chris Evans
CEDEP Treasurer, Former UK Human Resources Director
Over 50 years ago, Guy Landon, L’Oréal’s head of HR had a vision to create an executive education club of like-minded executives who shared the same humanist philosophy. He was joined by Antoine Riboud and Jean-Leon Donnadieu (from BSN, which later merged with Gervais-Danone), Renaud Gillet (from Pricel and Rhone Progil, which became part of the Rhone-Poulenc group), Antoine Bekaert (from Bekaert) and René Dunant (from Sandoz). The result was CEDEP, Europe’s first corporate-founded membership institution dedicated to executive education.
The three main objectives of the founders were to:
– Expose managers to a mix of cultures and industry contexts
– Provide participants with a contrast between the theories and practice of management
– Create a force for change within their companies by establishing a critical amount of managers who share key educational experience.
CEDEP soon became a unique and forward-thinking learning community where executives could act as a catalyst for change, realise their full potential and awaken a desire to share their knowledge with others.
Claude Michaud, Teresi’s deputy director (and also an INSEAD professor) who extended its membership to 20 members, including companies from outside Europe, most notably Tata Steel. It was also under Michaud’s tenure that CEDEP started offering off-campus programs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and India.
• From 2007 to 2011: Han van Dissel extended CEDEP overseas activities, offering off-campus programs in China, Brazil, Canada and South Korea.
CEDEP directly employs 26 people in program design, support, and client relationship roles.
Leadership is provided by a Managing Director.
The current Director is Thomas Hinterseer. From 2016 Thomas has initiated the transformation of CEDEP via a major reorganisation of its overall governance, the sale of the campus , the acquisition of two companies and the creation of a dedicated Institute for Leadership and Safety, thus adding significant value to CEDEP and its stakeholder
French Government Certification QUALIOPI
CEDEP is a Qualiopi-certified French training organisation offering the possibility of financial support for French companies.
On the business side, the financing calls upon an OPCO (Opérateur de Compétences).
These organisations can collect the Contribution unique à la formation professionnelle et à l’alternance (which replaces the Contribution à la formation professionnelle and the Taxe d’apprentissage) from companies and redistribute it for the training of employees. The funding granted depends on the size of the company.
Requests for funding agreements from the OPCOs must be made prior to any training.
Customised programs may result in certified competence based on their content and objectives.
For more information, please consult Muriel Pailleux at muriel.pailleux@cedep.com
CEDEP’s MBE LiVE online program has been awarded the prestigious EFMD EOCCS Certificate for Digital Learning.
This certification offers universities, business schools and alternative providers a top international quality benchmark in the online learning landscape, strenghtening market positioning and allowing for critical self-reflection and peer assessment.
Its comprehensive framework to evaluate the quality of online courses is firmly embedded in the general philosophy of EFMD accreditation : internationalisation, pratical relevance and quality improvement.
For more information, please consult Muriel Pailleux muriel.pailleux@cedep.com
Join our unique community and collaborate with us as a club or ecosystem member. In an ever-changing world let’s work together to improve tomorrow!
CEDEP
Boulevard de Constance
77300 FontaineBleau, France
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