The Power and Leverage of Network

1. Introduction
2. Agenda
3. Speakers

ILA in cooperation with Equilibre and LILLA will be delighted to welcome Mr. José Luiz Alvarez to talk about “The Power and Leverage of Network”.

Research shows that in this world of unprecedented speed of change, it is becoming more and more difficult to develop and maintain a strong and powerful professional network, without having a significant amount of social capital, regardless of how much intellectual capital (knowledge, experience, etc.) a candidate may possess. The goal of this session is to share action tools for the management of your professional network. We will discuss first why you are not as good a networker as you should. Second, how to analyse the quality of your network. Third, how to improve it.

The presentation will be followed by a networking cocktail which will provide you with the opportunity to test some of the tools acquired. 

Jose Luis Álvarez is Senior Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. He teaches in the MBA Program (where he received three times the Best Teacher Award) and mostly in executive education programmes, where he has also received several teaching and directing recognitions. He serves as academic director of the Leadership Transition Programme, the Leading for Results Programme as well as Transition to General Management. Professor Álvarez was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School and at Cambridge University.

Professor Álvarez holds degrees in Law and Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, an MBA from IESE Business School, and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. His research has been published in the MIT-Sloan Management Review, European Management Journal, Organization Studies, Organizations, Corporate Governance, and he has published six books, on corporate governance, senior executive careers and the political facets of the managerial work. His book Sharing Executive Power: Roles and Relationships at the Top published by Cambridge University Press was selected as one of the top three books in 2007 by the Academy of Management.

His current work, to be published in 2019 by Oxford University Press, centers on the executive functions and roles in corporate governance. His consulting experience has focused mostly on issues of corporate governance, organisational design and change.