My teaching approach emphasizes experiential learning. It is important for students to have an opportunity to experience problems and challenges, to try to solve them and to reflect on the processes they developed. I believe learning takes place when students act on content, where they can reflect on it and shape it. Therefore, my courses aim to create an environment where students have opportunities to act and reflect.


My teaching at INSEAD

I had the opportunity to design a distributed course on Managing Global Teams and Projects at INSEAD with students both in France and in Singapore. This truly innovative and successful elective allowed me to implement my teaching philosophy with a project-centered course (e.g. with the Singapore Tourism Board or the Economic Development Board) that would allow students to experience the technology in situ, as well as all the issues linked to team dynamics and project management in a global and distributed context.
I designed a half-day module of this course for executive programs, which I taught in several programs at INSEAD (while there and since I left).
I also designed and taught an elective entitled Managing Technological Change in Organizations.
Last, Theos Evgeniou and I worked together on the development of the core course on Information Systems Management.


My teaching at NYU-Poly

My teaching portfolio at NYU-Poly involves a series of courses that I designed or re-designed and taught the executive program and the graduate programs. Inspired by my experiential learning philosophy, these courses include a lot of simulations and hands-on exercises (e.g., an egg dropping exercise, desert survival simulation, Change Pro simulation). I teach the OB core course as well as an elective on leadership for the Executive Master’s Program. This elective is focused on personal development and coaching. While we discussed cases, the approach in this course was to make the participants’ experience the main material of the discussion. As an extension of this elective, I developed a workshop, Managing Your Self (2 half days), which focuses on career and self-development.
As part of my collaboration with Aileen Wilson, and our multimedia installation, I developed and offered a course on Creativity, Art and Management. The aim of the course is to provide participants with techniques and opportunities to go out of their comfort zones and think “outside of the box”. It will involve some case discussions, guest speakers, hand-on sessions, one or two visits to museums and exhibitions. Students will have to work on a project using the techniques presented in class.
Lastly, I am teaching the PhD Qualitative Research Seminar. The objective of this seminar is to give students an opportunity to explore methods to understand human behaviors in the actual contexts in which people pursue their daily lives. This seminar deals in an applied way with two interrelated topics: field methods of research and exploratory data analysis. This course is project based and provides students with the opportunity to learn from their own mistakes as they design and conduct a small field research project.