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Emmanuel Gobillot

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Renowned leadership expert, believes there must be a better way

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Gender: Male

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Languages: English, French

Travels from: United Kingdom

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A renowned leadership expert and sought-after speaker with the knowledge and creativity to inspire others and the ability to see where business issues lie and how to help fix them.

Biography

Emmanuel Gobillot’s Background

Emmanuel Gobillot’s first management position was in the financial services industry. He worked as a line manager, finding that he had a natural ability in the role. He moved on to become a program manager, getting yet more experience of how organisations work and how to be a leader.

His experiences in management meant that he saw first-hand how large organisations and individual managers can have difficulties communicating with and motivating teams. Having decided that there must be a better way, Gobillot began considering new approaches to leadership.

Gobillot’s dedication to improving leadership was evident and he went on to work with some of the most respected experts in the field. At Hay Group (a management consulting firm) he was Head of Consumer Sector consulting before becoming Director of Leadership Services. During this time he worked with some of the worlds largest and most well-known companies.

Sharing the methods he had learned and developed in his first book The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People Performance and Profit allowed him to see just how much demand there was for guidance. Determined to share his ideas about how to improve leadership, how to engage employees and how to best serve customers with yet more people, Gobillot started his own consultancy, Emmanuel Gobillot Limited.

Gobillot has been able to continue to build his reputation as a speaker, a consultant, a researcher and an author and is now in more demand than ever, assisting companies of all sizes and descriptions. Just like Emmanuel Gobillot himself, Emmanuel Gobillot Limited is committed to providing sustainable and forward-thinking solutions.

Experience and an innovative spirit led Emmanuel Gobillot to consider how best to approach leadership. His abilities as a speaker and his ground-breaking but practical methods have seen him become one of Europe’s most sought-after leadership gurus.

Current / Past Roles & Positions

Leadership expert
Believes ‘there must be a better way’
Has worked with some of the world’s best known companies

Languages

Emmanuel speaks English and French.

Speaking Style

Amusing, educational, enthusiastic, informal, interactive, passionate, story-telling.

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Collaboration

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The Leadership Challenge

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Books

This Is Not A Leadership Book: 20 Rules for Success

Part leadership book, part business book and 100% true, reading this is like hearing a wise, honest and humorous mentor finally tell you about the world of business as it is and how to find your place in it. Many leadership books are either shallow―focusing on only one element of leadership, narrow―examining leadership out of context, or biased―selling an idealised model. This book seeks simplicity without being simplistic and focuses on the reader in their context rather than describing other people’s leadership in theirs. It sets out 20 rules for success that draw on Emmanuel Gobillot’s 20 years of experience advising high performing leaders. Each rule is presented in an engaging and instantly recognisable true story that helps current and aspiring leaders to look differently at their own situation. Best described as a leadership development programme in a book, open this and begin your fast-paced journey from what it takes to be a leader, to why you can be one, via how to succeed.

Disciplined Collaboration: 4 steps to collaborative success

Ever wondered why your divisions are divided? Ever dreamt of an organization that has both the efficiency of competition with the effectiveness of collaboration? If you’re tired of adding dotted lines on charts and hugging trees and colleagues on away-days, disciplined collaboration is for you. In this engaging, thoughtful and well researched book, leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot identifies the real barriers to collaboration and proposes a disciplined approach to removing them. He identifies the 4 fears that no amlunt of flow charts or team building exercises will ever address. Combining the latest psychological and organizational research with pragmatic, real-world application, Disciplined Collaboration show you how to make your divisions add up again. This book will help you: • Diagnose the issues that get in the way of collaboration in your organisation. • Discover how to master the changing nature of influence from competition to collaboration. • Learn how to deploy the 4 disciplines that will remove the fears of collaboration in your team. • Be inspired by stories drawn from a huge range of global organizations, and discover the power of disciplined collaboration. Described as the ‘first leadership guru for the digital generation’ and ‘the freshest voice in leadership today’ Emmanuel Gobillot has over 15 years of experience in helping organizations and audiences globally rethink the way they build and run organizations.

Follow The Leader: The one thing great leaders have that great followers want

In ‘Follow the Leader’, global speaker, consultant and leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot answers a much more fundamental question for anyone wanting to become a great leader: “what do great followers want?” In this engaging, thoughtful and well-researched book, he identifies the proven pathways to developing the charisma we all seek in leaders who truly inspire and motivate us. He breaks down the all-important “charisma” into eight critical elements, explaining how each component works and offering practical development steps for each. Getting these steps right will transform good leaders into magnets for great followers, harnessing an unstoppable power for business achievement. • Discover CHARISMA, the new leadership model that addresses followers’ needs • Be inspired by stories drawn from a breathtaking number of fields from business to politics via wax models and bears! • Find out which questions really matter, how to answer them, and the eight steps to leadership success

Unleash Your Leader: How to win in business

Stop thinking you should be an executive. Start leading like one! There are many books on leadership, but the vast majority already assume the reader is in a leading role. But how do you use and enhance your business skillset to reach the leadership position you want? Bestselling business author and guru Emmanuel Gobillot and leading executive and entrepreneur Katherine Thomas, reveal in simple steps the secret to becoming a leader, showing you how to do the things executives do, speak the way executives speak and behave the way executives behave. The only question on completing the book will be not why you should be a leader in your organisation, but why you are not one already!

Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration

Leadershift is about adapting and changing traditional models of leadership in response to the influence of mass collaboration. Mass collaboration is a form of collective action which occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, exemplified by websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Second Life. As the traditional models of working are radically altered those in leadership roles need to understand their place in this new hierarchy and how to respond. Mass collaboration requires a form of leadership that is prepared to let go of the experience, expertise and control it holds precious and be able to see mass participation as an opportunity to create value rather than a threat to its existence.

The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People, Performance and Profit

Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results. The Connected Leader argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don’t take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization. Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, giving meaning to workplace relationships and by creating dialogue within the organization. The Connected Leader provides diagnostic tools for readers to evaluate their own skills and directly relate the insights from the book to their own situation. International case studies provide clear examples of connected leadership.