Leading Without Commanding
Autonomy, cooperation and collective intelligence
Classic hierarchical models are reaching their limits with teams seeking autonomy and meaning.
- Date
- Postponed to a later date
- Time
- To be confirmed
- Duration
- 3h
- Format
- 100% online, Zoom
Access to this masterclass is offered free of charge; it is nonetheless subject to prior registration, within the limit of available seats.

Hosted by
Hugues Lenoir
Université Paris Nanterre, France
The Challenge
Reinventing the exercise of authority to build more human and more effective organisations
The lessons of libertarian thought applied to contemporary management, to rethink cooperation, collective decision-making and the role of the leader.
Executive
You sense that the classic hierarchical model is running out of steam with teams seeking autonomy.
Entrepreneur
You are building your organisation and want to avoid reproducing a purely top-down authority.
Manager
You must decide with your team rather than for it, without losing effectiveness.
Organisation Lead
You are seeking to build genuine cooperation rather than surface-level compliance.
Four profiles, one same tipping point: the moment when leading stops meaning commanding.
A masterclass to reinvent the exercise of authority and build more human, more responsible and more effective organisations.
What you take away
A different way of reading management, applicable from Monday
- Autonomy: freeing up initiative and responsibility
- Cooperation: building trust and creating value together
- Collective intelligence: deciding better through diversity of viewpoints and deliberation
- A reading of management drawn from libertarian thought, directly applicable
- A dialogue with a recognised researcher on cooperative models
- A perspective adapted to African and international organisational contexts
You receive
- Session replay
- PDF handout
Optional
Have your Masterclass learning outcomes validated and receive a named certificate of training
50,000 FCFA
At the end of the Masterclass, participants who wish to may take part in a learning validation process comprising actual attendance at the session and a quiz assessing the knowledge and skills covered. The named certificate of training is issued only after this process has been validated. The FCFA 50,000 fee covers the assessment process, administrative processing, traceability and issuance of the certificate.
Interactivity. Interactive debate, direct exchange with the professor, moderated Q&A. Session held in French.

The speaker
Hugues Lenoir
- Emeritus lecturer-researcher in education sciences, Université Paris Nanterre
- Specialist in libertarian education, self-management and autonomy
Emeritus professor of education sciences at Université Paris Nanterre, Hugues Lenoir specialises in libertarian education, self-management and autonomy. His work focuses on cooperative models and on ways of deciding, learning and cooperating without depending on top-down authority.
He regularly speaks to executives, entrepreneurs, managers and organisation leaders to translate these lessons into the realities of contemporary management, with a perspective adapted to African and international organisational contexts.
Institution
Université Paris Nanterre
Emeritus lecturer-researcher in education sciences
Based in
France
Registration
Reserve your place
Professionals outside the network may submit an application. The alumni office reviews its admissibility and decides on the recommendation.
Payment
Accepted payment methods
Access to the masterclass is offered free of charge, to alumni and recommended professionals alike. Only the optional learning validation process — assessment, administrative processing, traceability and issuance of the named certificate of training — is billed, at the same rate for everyone: 50,000 FCFA, i.e. EUR 76.22.
Pay for the certificate by cardSecure Stripe payment, Visa and MastercardEUR 76.22After your registration, our team sends you the payment instructions and your receipt. A question about payment?
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Leading Without Commanding, autonomy, cooperation and collective intelligence
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