Verzat Caroline | ESCP Business School

Caroline Verzat

Full Professor of Sustainability Education

Department : Sustainability
Campus : Paris

Caroline Verzat is a Professor in the Sustainability Department at ESCP Business School. Her research focuses on action research, which closely combines practical exploration and theoretical research for sustainability education. Her favourite research questions include: How can we educate future leaders to become responsible managers or entrepreneurs, giving priority to caring for the living world over profit maximisation? What are the characteristics of an emancipating educational environment? What is the impact of emotions on learning and on changing mindsets and behaviour fostering sustainability? How can actors be enabled to cope with hidden facets of learning and innovation (failure, hangers-on, conflicts, and the necessary time for long-term changes)? How can artistic techniques help students, managers and teachers reflect on unconscious or embarrassing questions that contribute to climate inaction and the neglect of critical ecological issues? She is an alumna of École Normale Supérieure and ESSEC. She also holds a PhD in the sociology of Organisations (University Paris IX-Dauphine) and an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Entrepreneurship. She began her career as a consultant in management and organisation, and became a Lecturer in Management at École Centrale de Lille. In 2009, she joined Advancia, the first French school specialised in entrepreneurship, and she joined ESCP Business School in 2017. She is also a member of the Campus de la Transition, a training and research centre for social and ecological transition, and she is an artist specialised in collage-techniques.

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

VERZAT, C., C. MAKAYA, A. JACQUEMIN

Artiste et entrepreneur pour la planète – Instituto Terra : s’inspirer de Sebastião et Lélia Salgado pour entreprendre aujourd’hui

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER

Chapters

2024

VERZAT, C., J. LECOQ

Learning to Live with Emotions for Transition

In: Pedagogy of the Anthropocene Epoch for a Great Transition, Cécile Renouard · Frédérique Brossard Børhaug Ronan Le Cornec · Jonathan Dawson Alexander Federau · David Ries Perrine Vandecastele · Nathanaël Wallenhorst Springer

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

VERZAT, C., N. PRIME

Europe–Afrique : le voyage apprenant pour découvrir ensemble le leadership responsable

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-66-FR

Academic Articles

2023

VERZAT, C., F. BORNARD, S. FOLIARD, S. LE PONTOIS

À la recherche des émotions cachées dans l’accompagnement entrepreneurial

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 2023/3 (n° 56)

Academic Articles

2023

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE, N. CARRE

Situations problématiques d’accompagnement, posture herméneutique et place des émotions

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 2023/3

Conference Presentations

2023

GARCIA QUEVEDO, D., A. GLASER, C. VERZAT

NLP for Qualitative Analysis: Leveraging Deep Learning to Capture Contextual Meaning

Academy of Management (AOM)

Academic Articles

2022

LAMY, E., M. LOI, A. FAYOLLE, M. VAN GELDEREN, E. RIOT, D. REFAI, D. HIGGINS, R. HALOUD, M. A. SALUSSE, C. VERZAT, F. CAVARRETTA

Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY, 31(2), 123-134

Academic Articles

2022

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE

Entrepreneurial education: What are the challenges for teaching and research in the light of crises and digitisation?

REVUE DE L'ENTREPRENEURIAT

Academic Articles

2022

TEGLBORG, A. -C., C. VERZAT, S. KUMAR

How can radical innovations in sustainability education regenerate the world?

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 53, 18-29

Academic Articles

2022

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE

Education entrepreneuriale : Quels défis pour l’enseignement et la recherche à l’aune des crises et de la digitalisation ?

REVUE DE L'ENTREPRENEURIAT, 21, 111-117

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Academic Articles

2025

Artiste et entrepreneur pour la planète – Instituto Terra : s’inspirer de Sebastião et Lélia Salgado pour entreprendre aujourd’hui

Chapters

2024

Learning to Live with Emotions for Transition

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

Europe–Afrique : le voyage apprenant pour découvrir ensemble le leadership responsable

Academic Articles

2023

À la recherche des émotions cachées dans l’accompagnement entrepreneurial

Academic Articles

2023

Situations problématiques d’accompagnement, posture herméneutique et place des émotions

Conference Presentations

2023

NLP for Qualitative Analysis: Leveraging Deep Learning to Capture Contextual Meaning

Academic Articles

2022

Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads

Academic Articles

2022

Entrepreneurial education: What are the challenges for teaching and research in the light of crises and digitisation?

Academic Articles

2022

How can radical innovations in sustainability education regenerate the world?

Academic Articles

2022

Education entrepreneuriale : Quels défis pour l’enseignement et la recherche à l’aune des crises et de la digitalisation ?

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