MSc HEC Oxford Consulting and Coaching for Change

Target: Executives, human resources directors, consultants working in change management - those who appreciate that change can only be achieved through people.

Language: English

Duration: 11 months

Format: The program is built around 6 four-day modules
Three of which take place in Oxford, and three at HEC

Location: Paris - Oxford

Next Intake: 2010-11-23

Cost: Total price: € 44 900 (May be subject to modification)
Application fees: € 350

The program fee covers instruction, teaching materials, all accommodation and meals at both learning locations. Fees are billed upon acceptance and must be settled before the beginning of the program.
The program will be charged by HEC, which is not subject to VAT.

The program leads to an executive MSc Degree in Consulting from HEC.

We have negotiated a special loan schedule with the BNP Paribas for HEC Paris participants. Please contact your Admissions Advisor for full details.

Location: Oxford and Paris
The Oxford modules are held at Egrove Park, a purpose-built modern executive education centre, two miles south of Oxford city centre and easily accessible by road or rail from all major centres.
Accommodation is in specially designed split-level study bedrooms, with ensuite facilities. Egrove Park is renowned for its excellent food. Leisure facilities include squash courts, sauna, gym, snooker room,
all-weather tennis court, putting green and croquet lawn.
The Paris modules are held at the HEC Paris. The campus is located in Jouy-en-Josas, just outside Paris, in 250 acres of wooded countryside. It is easily reached by taxi from Paris' two airports and from the Gare du Nord Eurostar terminal. Among its excellent facilities, the campus offers a 50,000 volume library, internet access, film theatre, large gymnasium and extensive sporting activities.
Participants enjoy quality accommodation in a 3-star executive hotel which communicates directly with the Executive Development Centre's teaching facilities, or in the 19th century château situated beside an attractive lake on campus.

Current cohort

Average age: 43
Average years of professional experience: 20
Average years management experience: 14

Professional experience

This program attracts a particularly diverse group of professionals and the variety of participants' cultures and backgrounds provides a learning opportunity that is stimulated by group work and open debate. Experienced faculty from HEC and Oxford guide participants through the program.

Participants on the program are internationally-minded and come from all around the world There are 18 nationalities represented in the current class including Ireland, Hungary, Brazil, South Africa, Eygpt and Canada.
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Vision and commitment

It is for you if you want to spend time on serious reflection, analysis and study, developing your vision of organisational behaviour and change management through an improved understanding of the human factor. Your level of commitment must be high: you will undertake work between modules, as well as working on an individual project throughout the program. You must be prepared to be fully involved in the program: your engagement with the program and the group as a whole is of fundamental importance.

Which profiles?

Individuals who enable or implement change must be coaches, consultants, leaders, managers, navigators and facilitators. Theoretically informed and practically grounded, this program equips senior executives to deal with change in organisations and the challenges this poses for individuals. The approach is multidisciplinary and multifunctional, linking the social sciences and management theory to practical situations and drawing upon relevant concepts from psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, ethnography, sociology and philosophy

This intensive and intellectually rigorous program equips experienced executives and consultants to:

• understand better what constitutes change, and how it manifests itself
• understand complexity and the limits to control
• understand themselves, the people and organisations with which they work, and the drivers for change in the environment
• connect the big picture with the detail and be able to make thoughtful interventions in organisational change.

HEC Oxford program

Consulting and Coaching for Change is run jointly by HEC Executive Education at HEC Paris and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. This partnership brings together the extensive experience of the human dimension of organisations which exists in both insitutions and enhances the program's multicultural and multidisciplinary approach. Action learning, intensive tutored study and the depth and breadth of outlook of a top international faculty combine to provide an experience unlike any other.

Certificate and Degree Program

Participants who successfully complete the study course gain the HEC-Said Business School, University of Oxford attendance certificate. The program can also lead to the Specialised Master's Degree in Consulting and Coaching from HEC; participants who wish to qualify for this degree must submit a dissertation.

Program alumni are entitled to membership of the Oxford Business Alumni (OBA), and become members of the HEC alumni association.

Modules

Module 1, Oxford, The nature of change
What are the different perspectives on change in organizations and what do they imply for change agent interventions? How can you influence the strategic conversation about change?

Module 2, HEC, Learning for change
Can we learn to change? What cognitive mechanisms and processes limit the capacity for organisaitonal change? How can you develop individual and collective capabilities for change?

Module 3, Oxford, Change as a social challenge
How do you work with culture, identity, power, and wider organisational networks in change processes? If organisations are embedded in wider systems and networks, how can you enact change most effectively?

Module 4, HEC, Psychodynamics and change
How do unconscious mechanisms and processes play out in groups and organizations. How can you work with the psychosocial dynamics of organizational change?

Module 5, Oxford, Leadership of change
How can you think in new ways about the practice of the leadership of change? What are the dark sides of leading change and how can they be handled? Why do people follow leaders who want change?

Module 6, HEC, Change agency
Who are you as a change agent and why? How can you become the change agent you want to be? How can you continue to be a reflective practitioner?

Learning methods

Participants enrich their theoretical background and develop an understanding of change interventions through analysing real life cases in organisations. Drawing from the social sciences and management, the theoretical background is reinforced by the inclusion and analyses of consultation methods. Real life is evident in the classroom through accounts given by academics, practitioners and participants of their personal experience.
The focus is on the nature of change interventions: participants examine the nature of intervention through cases, conversations and projects. With tutors, they explore their personal experiences of managing change, coaching and consulting.
Between modules, participants use a web-based learning space where they can access recommended reading material, as well as working on individual and team assignments via bulletin boards and other distance learning methods.

Academic Directors

Marc Thompson
Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Marc has published over 40 books and articles and his current research focuses on innovation and strategic renewal.

Rachel Amato is a coach and consultant, mainly for large international groups. Her practice is rooted in organisational sociology, psychosociology, group dynamics and organisational development. She is also a member of HEC adjunct faculty and is in charge of several executive education programs.

Core Faculty*

Gilles Amado
Professor of Organisational Psychosociology, HEC Paris. Expert in the clinical approach to organisations. Author of numerous articles and books, including The Transitional Approach to Change.

Rafael Ramirez
Professor of Management, HEC and Fellow in Strategic Management , Said Business School, University of Oxford. Visiting Professor of Scenarios and Corporate Strategy with Shell International 2000-2003. Has intervened in organisations for over 20 years, and published articles and books, including Agents of Change.

Denis Bourgeois
Adjunct Professor, HEC Executive Education. Interests include the impact of the changing role of the client in organisations, conflicts and co-operation, organisation as a projection of its leader, trends in the management of democracy-oriented organisations.

Sue Dopson
Rhodes Trust Reader in Organisational Behaviour, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Interests include how management is changing, managing innovation and methods for organisational analysis.

Tom Gilmore, is Vice President, CFAR (Center for Applied Research), adjunct faculty theWharton School, one of founders of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, expert on leadership transitions, both entry and exit.

Keith Ruddle, Associate Fellow in Leadership Organisation and Change, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Previously head of strategy and change management at Accenture. Interests include leadership, management and measurement of change and transformation.

Bertrand Moingeon, Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Executive Education, HEC School of Management. Author of some 50 books, chapters and articles on strategic management and organisational learning.

Keith Grint, Professor of Leadership Studies Cranfield University and Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School Oxford. Researcher on leadership and a key member of the faculty on the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program Books and articles include The Arts of Leadership.

Michael Maccoby, Psychoanalyst and anthropologist.Has guided strategic planning processes and efforts at improving relationships for many organisations. Research explores the development of social character and leadership in the new economy.

Robert W. Putman, a partner and co-founder of Action Design, he undertakes intervention research on professional practice and organisational change. Bob is co-author of the book Action Science with Chris Argyris and Diana McLain Smith. He has written a number of articles on reflective conversation, action science, and organisational learning.

Other faculty*

Additional faculty will be drawn from both institutions' networks of outstanding individuals in disciplines including Management Studies, Economics, Psychology, Politics and Engineering.

Elizabeth Howard
Fellow in Retailing, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Interests include international strategy, retail development and project learning in executive education. Has designed numerous programs for international organisations. Co-director of CCC for its first four years.

Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and visiting scholar at the Snider Center for Entrepreneurial Research, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Larry Hirschorn, Principal, CFAR (Centre for Applied Research) and former President, International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Prolific writer with 4 books and about 200 articles to his name.

Richard Pascale, Associate Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Expert in leadership and change, has researched and consulted on complexity, agility and renewal. Author of Surfing the Edge of Chaos: the Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business.

Catherine Sandler is heading Sandler consulting. She has worked in different capacities with the Tavistock Clinic and specialises in coaching senior executives and top teams. Catherine has taught in a number of programs in several leading business schools.

Marshall Young, Fellow in Strategic Leadership at Said Business School, University of Oxford. His career has spanned teaching, operations research consultancy, strategy consultancy and business development. He is also Director of the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program.

*Faculty may be subject to change without notice.

Selection Criteria

Candidates are considered on a rolling admissions basis, it is advised to apply early.

Please send us your CV or fill in our preliminary information file.
We will contact you within 2 weeks to confirm your suitability for the program.

Degree

Participants gain the HEC-Said Business School, University of Oxford attendance certificate. The program can lead to the Specialised Master's Degree in Consulting and Coaching from HEC; participants must submit a dissertation to the jury to qualify for this.