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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Individual and Group behaviour
Brain and Learning
Self-awareness, Assertiveness & Adaptation agility
Well-being and stress management
Managerial posture, Leadership skills & Team building
Occupational health and safety
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Careers
Leadership skills
Leadership & Work identity
Space, Time & Materiality
Rehumanization of the work context
New collective Forms of Organization
Skills
Neuroscience applied to Motivation and Coping
Well being & Stress Management
Emotional intelligence
Mind frames & Decision-making
Motor & Mental Preferences
Life Balance
Intelligence Types & Learning Styles
Committed learning
Learning Areas
Méthodes d'apprentissage
Self-awareness & Ability to adapt
Brain functioning
Biography
Biographie
I am Professor in Soft Skills and Certified Coach in Professional and Personal Development.
I'm passionate about applied neuroscience and its applications. For the past twenty-five years, I have been helping students and managers to identify and realize their potential, while listening to their needs, to help them find a balanced and ecological posture and achieve their personal and professional goals.
My research is mainly about careers and identity work, mental patterns and decision-making, the role of the senses and the body in perceiving and acting, the appropriation of space & time and materiality in organizations, and the rehumanization of work.
Diplomas
MSc in Management
HEC Montréal, Montréal
PhD
HEC Montréal, Montréal
(2010)
Experiences
Assistant Professor
McGill University, Montréal
2005 - 2006
Lecturer
ESCP Europe Business School
2004 - 2005
Visiting Professor
Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble
2000 - 2004
Lecturer and researcher
HEC Montréal, Montréal
1998 - 2004
Teaching and Research Assistant
HEC Montréal
1994 - 1998
Visiting out
2017 - 2018
Macquarie University, Australia : Research Visiting Out
Publications
Published
LEGRAND C., NASCHBERGER C., BARUCH Y., BOZIONELOS N., (2023). Chance events in managers' careers: Positive and negative events, their expected and unexpected outcomes.
European Management Review, 20 (3), 461-476
LEGRAND C., AL ARISS Akram, BOZIONELOS N., (2019). Migrant CEOs: Barriers and Strategies on the Way to the Top.
European Management Review, 16 (3), 597-615
ARNAUD Nicolas, MILLS Colleen, LEGRAND Céline, MATON Eric, (2016). Materializing Strategy in Mundane Tools: the Key to Coupling Global Strategy and Local Strategy Practice?.
British Journal of Management, 27 (1), 38-57
ARNAUD Nicolas, MILLS Colleen, LEGRAND Céline, (2016). Liberation through narrativity: A case of organization reconstruction through strategic storytelling.
Management International, 20 (2), 107-118
LEGRAND Céline, STERVINOU Sandrine, NOEL-LEMAITRE Christine, (2012). Vers une meilleure compréhension des parties prenantes du microcrédit entrepreneurial en France : Proposition d’une typologie des parcours des porteurs de projet.
Management International, 16 (2), 161-182
ARNAUD Nicolas, LEGRAND Céline, MATON Eric, (2012). Un intrapreneur ordinaire au coeur d'une implantation réussie d'un changement organisationnel.
Revue Interdisciplinaire Management, Homme et Entreprise (RIMHE), (3), 67-81
NASCHBERGER Christine, QUENTAL Camilla, LEGRAND Céline, (2012). Le parcours de carrière des femmes cadres : pourquoi est-il si compliqué et comment le faciliter?.
Gestion : Revue Internationale de Gestion, 37 (3), 43-50
STERVINOU Sandrine, LEGRAND Céline, (2008). Etapes clés du développement d’un réseau d’entreprises : Proposition d’une grille d’analyse.
Management International, 13 (1), 61-74
GUIHENEUF A.-L., ARNAUD Nicolas, LEGRAND Céline, (2013). Libérer l’entreprise : se réinventer pour mieux innover.
Audencia Business School, 1
ARNAUD Nicolas, LEGRAND Céline, (2012). Le management en questions. Programme DCG 7.
Gualino Editeur
NASCHBERGER, C., QUENTAL, C., LEGRAND, C. (2013). Le parcours de carrière des femmes cadres. Pourquoi est-il si compliqué et comment le faciliter ?. In St-ONGE, Sylvie and GUERRERO, Sylvie (Eds.), Gestion des carrières (pp. 472-484). Presses d'HEC Montréal.
COORENS, E., LEGRAND, C. (2026). Proposal of a process model for collective re-organization in complex context: the case of the renewal of the Peels region (NL). Pros Symposium 2026.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BARUCH, Y., BOZIONELOS, N. (2026). Crafting Sustainable and Meaningful Careers Through Narratives: Evidence from Qualitative Research with French Business School Alumni. BAM Conference.
LEGRAND, C., NASCHBERGER, C., BOZIONELOS, N., BARUCH, Y. (2025). Proximal and Distal Outcomes of the Kaleidoscope Career Orientations under the Impact of Global Chance Event. AGRH 2025.
LEGRAND, C., NASCHBERGER, C., BOZIONELOS, N., BARUCH, Y. (2025). Is it (still) a Man’s World? Women’s and men’s careers in male-dominated vs. non-male dominated sectors.. GWO 2025.
LEGRAND, C., NASCHBERGER, C., BOZIONELOS, N., BARUCH, Y. Proximal and Distal Outcomes of the Kaleidoscope Career Orientations under the Impact of Global Chance Event.
LEGRAND, C., COORENS, E., MOREL, K. (2025). Leading regeneration: CEO CHEMP characteristics (Consciousness, Hallmarks, Engagement, Morality, and Preemptiveness) for transformative business. EURAM 2025.
LEGRAND, C., COORENS, E., MOREL, K. (2025). Learning Leadership for Flourishing Organizations: The Epikairotis of Leadership Development for Creative Systems Change. egos 2025.
LEGRAND, C., KIRSTIE MCALLUM, K., LAFAURE, C., ADRIEN EVIN, A. (2025). “Break a leg!” Fostering healthcare workers’ connectivity through the performing arts. egos 2025.
LEGRAND, C., KIRSTIE MCALLUM, K., LAFAURE, C., ADRIEN EVIN, A. (2025). Touch me if you can? Advocating for an embodied approach to organizing patient care in palliative care units. Pros Symposium 2025.
LEGRAND, C., JUBAULT KRASNOPEVTSEVA, N., FERNANDEZ, V. (2025). Casting the light on the body in organizational improvisation process: taking stock and moving forward. Pros Symposium.
LEGRAND, C., BENCHERKI, N. (2024). Writings on the wall: Degrees of materiality in team collaboration practices. 40th Egos Colloquium.
NASCHBERGER, C., BARUCH, Y., LEGRAND, C., BOZIONELOS, N. (2024). Kaleidoscope Careers: Proximal and Distal Outcomes. BAM Conference, Nottingham, UK.
LEGRAND, C., BENCHERKI, N. (2024). A CEO's identity dilemma and painful transition in a context of liberation management. Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Management Stratégique.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BARUCH, Y., BOZIONELOS, N. (2024). Kaleidoscope Careers: Proximal and Distal Outcomes. BAM conference, Nottingham Business School, UK.
LEGRAND, C., KIRSTIE MCALLUM, K., ADRIEN EVIN, A., LAFAURE, C. (2024). Réhumaniser l’hôpital avec les arts vivants. 91ème Congrès Acfas.
LEGRAND, C. (2023). From Christchurch, New Zealand to the world: Colleen’s international collaboration initiatives. ICA 2023.
LEGRAND, C. (2023). CEO struggling journey from an autocratic to a servant leadership style involving profound identity work in the context of an imposed change towards a more participative organization. EURAM.
LAFAURE, C., LEGRAND, C. (2023). La danse en Unité de Soins Palliatifs (USP), une proposition qui réhumanise un service hospitalier. ACFAS.
LEGRAND, C., MILLS, C. (2022). Writing on the wall: Revealing how the sociomaterial micro-practices at the heart of communication create team unity. ICA 2022.
LEGRAND, C., MILLS, C. (2022). Identity work at the top: A process model of CEO Identity work during imposed transitioning to a post neo-liberal way of organizing. 13th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BARUCH, Y., BOZIONELOS, N. (2022). The Impact of Chance Events on Careers: A longitudinal Study with Covid-19 as the Chance Event.. BAM conference, Manchester, UK.
LEGRAND, C., MILLS, C. (2021). Grappling with a transforming CEO identity during radical organizational change. 12th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BARUCH, Y., BOZIONELOS, N. (2021). Unveiling the significance of chance events in managerial careers. Congrès de l’AGRH, Paris, France.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BOZIONELOS, N., BARUCH, Y. (2020). Chance event in executives' careers: Positive and negative events, their expected and unexpected outcomes.. AOM conference, Vancouver, Canada..
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., BOZIONELOS, N., BARUCH, Y. (2019). Chance event in executives' careers: Positive and negative events, their expected and unexpected outcomes.. BAM conference, Aston, UK..
MILLS, C., LEGRAND, C. (2019). Dialogic digital and material entanglement in the process of managing an emerging ICT firm’s strategy practice. Tenth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
LEGRAND, C., NASCHBERGER, C., BARUCH, Y., BOZIONELOS, N. (2018). Executives' career success: Antecedents to multiple dimensions of career success in a study of French Business School alumni., British Academy of Management (BAM).
MILLS, C., LEGRAND, C. (2017). Writing on the wall: Revealing the sociomaterial micro-practices at the heart of instituting an ITC team’s practices., Ninth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
DEBUCQUET, G., LOUCHE, C., LEGRAND, C. (2016). Les managers face aux nanotechnologies et à leurs incertitudes. Colloque "Les nanotechnologies : entre rêves et craintes". Nantes:
DEBUCQUET, G., LOUCHE, C., LEGRAND, C. (2015). Middle managers’ decisions and actions justification in a context of uncertainties: the case of nanotechnologies., 31st EGOS Colloquium.
BOZIONELOS, N., LEGRAND, C., AL ARISS, A. (2014). The dynamics of the careers of migrant CEOs., 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C. (2014). Organizational change communication: Materialising the immaterial., ICA'S 64th Annual Conference.
ARNAUD, N., MILLS, C., LEGRAND, C. (2014). Liberation through narrativity: A case of organization reconstruction through strategic storytelling., 14th Annual Conference EURAM.
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C. (2014). From outlaw to hero: middle-manager deviance within a normative organization.. 9th Organization Studies Summer Workshop "Resistance, resisting, and resisters in and around organizations". Corfu:
ARNAUD, N., MILLS, C., LEGRAND, C., MATON, E. (2013). Middle manager as the interface between global strategy and strategy practice. Enacting strategy through materializing., 29th EGOS Colloquium.
ARNAUD, N., MILLS, C., LEGRAND, C. (2013). Liberation through narrativity: A case of organization reconstruction through strategic storytelling., 29th EGOS Colloquium.
LEGRAND, C., NASCHBERGER, C., QUENTAL, C. (2013). L'équilibre vie professionnelle - vie personnelle : point de vue des cadres., 5ème Congrès de l'Association Française de Sociologie.
LEGRAND, C. (2013). Impacts of CEO Change on Top Management Team composition and dynamics., 13th EURAM Conference.
ARNAUD, N., MILLS, C., & LEGRAND, C. (2013). Explicating the discursive costs of innovation and creative practice., Fifth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
NASCHBERGER, C., QUENTAL, C., LEGRAND, C. (2013). Etapes de carrière et perception des enjeux en matière d'équilibre vie professionnelle -vie personnelle chez les cadres hommes et femmes., 24ème Congrès AGRH.
NASCHBERGER, C., QUENTAL, C., LEGRAND, C. (2013). La recherche de l'équilibre vie professionnelle-vie personnelle : les cadres hommes et femmes ne sont pas toujours égaux face à cette problématique. 1ère Journée du Management Socialement Responsable des Entreprises. Tours:
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C., MATON, E. (2012). The textualizing work of middle managers. A practice perspective on the materiality aspect of discourse., 28th EGOS Colloquium.
DEBUCQUET, G., LEGRAND, C. (2012). Lessons of food-related risks management in France based on four case studies: from “omerta” to a proactive strategy involving stakeholders., 28th EGOS Colloquium.
LEGRAND, C. (2012). Impacts of CEO succession on Top Management Team composition and dynamics., XXIème Conférence Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS).
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C., MATON, E. (2012). From Outlaw to Hero: a process study of middle managers deviance within a bureaucracy. A longitudinal and multicase study., 28th EGOS Colloquium.
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C., MATON, E. (2012). Deviant practices of middle managers while implementing change in a pluralistic context., 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
NASCHBERGER, C., LEGRAND, C., & QUENTAL, C. (2012). Développement des carrières : perception des cadres sur les leviers et les freins en matière d’évolution professionnelle., 23ème congrès de l'Association francophone de Gestion des Ressources Humaines (AGRH).
QUENTAL, C., NASCHBERGER, C., & LEGRAND, C. (2012). Career development in the perception of managers: Levers, barriers and gender differences., 28th EGOS Colloquium.
LEGRAND, C., STERVINOU, S., NOEL-LEMAITRE, C. (2012). Vers une meilleure compréhension des bénéficiaires du microcrédit entrepreneurial en France : Proposition d’une typologie des parcours des porteurs de projet. Séminaire de Recherche "Les jeudis de la Recherche". Nantes:
ARNAUD, N., MATON, E., LEGRAND, C. (2012). Materializing Strategy: what middle managers do? And why?. Special Workshop Strategy-as-Practice. Paris:
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C., & MATON, E. (2011). Reconstructing a global strategic plan in a pluralistic context: How middle managers locally reconstruct strategy through the production of texts. A multi case study., 27th EGOS Colloquium.
ARNAUD, N., LEGRAND, C., MATON, E. (2011). Un intrapreneur « ordinaire » au cœur d’une implantation réussie d’un changement organisationnel. Journée d'Etude sur le changement entrepreneurial.
LEGRAND, C., & VIOLA, J.-M. (2009). Toward a better fit between stage of growth, business model and board's composition: Evidence of various governance configurations in the North American biotech industry., 8ème Conférence Internationale de Gouvernance d'Entreprise (CIG 2009).
LEGRAND, C., NOEL-LEMAITRE, C., STERVINOU, S. (2009). Une typologie des parcours des micros-entrepreneurs : Quels risques et quelles modalités spécifiques d'accompagnement des parcours Tremplin", "Passion", "Indépendance", "Utopique" et "Dernier recours" ?". 2ème Colloque interdisciplinaire d’Audencia sur la responsabilité globale "Engager les parties prenantes dans une démarche de responsabilité globale". Nantes:
LEGRAND, C., STERVINOU, S. (2009). Conciliation, au sein d’un réseau, d’un modèle de gouvernance fondateur idéaliste et d’un modèle émergent pragmatique, autour d’un projet de développement durable.. 2ème Colloque interdisciplinaire d’Audencia sur la responsabilité globale "Engager les parties prenantes dans une démarche de responsabilité globale". Nantes:
STERVINOU, S., LEGRAND, C. (2008). Les enjeux stratégiques des étapes de développement d'une marque collective. XVIIe Conférence Internationale de Management Stratégique.
LEGRAND, C., STERVINOU, S. (2008). Quelle gouvernance pour un réseau en phase de croissance : le cas d'une marque collective. Workshop "Responsabilité globale et réseaux : quelle gouvernance ?". Nantes:
STERVINOU, S., LEGRAND, C. (2007). La crise de croissance d'un réseau sous l'éclairage d'un conflit entre deux visions concurrentes - l'une idéaliste, et l'autre pragmatique. XVIe Conférence Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS).
LEGRAND, C. (2006). Analyse métaphorique des conditions de stabilité d’un cadre d’interaction social : Étude des valeurs, règles et mécanismes de contrôle social contribuant à la régulation des comportements dans une bibliothèque.., 6ème Congrès Internationale de Psychologie Sociale en Langue Française (CIPSLF).
LEGRAND, C. (2006). CEO interest for team work and for operations as key elements in understanding differences in top teams composition and functioning. 10th International Workshop on Teamworking (IWOT 10). Groningen:
Press articles
LEGRAND, C., VAN GEEL, M., COORENS, E. (2026). The Regeneration Gain. HR Director Magazine.
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Revue Gestion
2025
Doctoral supervision
Since 2025 J. KASSIS : Exploring Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Use of Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) in Market Access and Reimbursement Pathways for Biologics and Biosimilars in the United Arab Emirates..
Since 2024 M. EL TALL : Transformational Leadership as perceived in Saudi Arabia under the vision 2030 – A Qualitative Approach.
Since 2024 K. EL TALL : Factors Influencing Effective Inter-Team Collaboration in Complex Multi-team Environments: Evidence from the Media Sector in the MENA Region.
(2024) E. COORENS : A practice-based approach for businesses and their CEOs to become regenerative.
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Since 2025 H. WANG : When and Why a Mindful Team Becomes Creative.
(2025) Y. WANG : Research on the Impact Mechanism of the Consistency between Leadership Self-oriented Perfectionism and Leadership Other-oriented Perfectionism on Employee Work Outcomes.
(2026) L. GONZALEZ : La Culture du Bien-être dans une organisation publique: une Recherche-action inspirée par l'approche constitutive de la communication organisationnelle.