Catherine Lagarde specialises in team dynamics and leadership, particularly in transcultural environments.
She accompanies executive teams in charge of large, cross-cultural change projects to help them develop the managerial practices that will best support the strategy of their organisation.

One of her main projects with ICM was a large pan-African strategic change management programme that extended over 3 years. She participated in designing and adapting the programme, brought methodological support to the project team, coached the senior managers who sponsored the programme, trained and supervised external consultants and internal trainers, and trained directly over 450 African managers from eight different countries. This programme took her to Nigeria and Ghana, Congo Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville, Rwanda and Burundi, as well as Kenya and South Africa.

Catherine has worked with organisations such as Accor, Aérospatiale, Air Liquide, Alstom, Axa IM, Banques populaires, BNP-Paribas, Campbell, Carrefour, Cegelec, Connex, Council of Europe, Dannon, EDF, Exxon, France Telecom, Greenpeace International, Heineken, Hygena, Miele, Microsoft, OECD, Oracle, PriceWaterhouse-Coopers, Rexam, Sanofi Pasteur, Total and UCB.

She has taught group dynamics in an international MBA. She is a guest speaker at the business clubs APM and Germe (French Business Confederation, Medef).

She has published in French:
* Manager, où sont tes repères ? Editions d’Organisation, 2003 (with Tony Khabaz) about sustaining leadership as well as collective high performance and momentum in an unpredictable environment.
* Du temps pour tout, Flammarion, 1998 (with Tony Khabaz) about work-life balance and sustaining personal accomplishments.
Her first experience of change management has been with the Metra Proudfoot International consulting firm. She then set up her own business, first in Paris, then in New York, then in Paris again, focusing on organisational and cultural change and personal development.

Catherine has a degree from HEC and is trained in change, creativity and personal development techniques: Gestalt therapy (4 year training), Palo Alto approach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She has also acquired an in-depth training on Gestalt practices and experiential processes, Co-operative inquiry, and Patterns of High Performance. She is a certified practitioner of the Leadership Judgement Indicator (LJI).

Catherine works in English and French.