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Sylvain Bureau, Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique (Best PhD Thesis Award in 2007), is the director of the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute at ESCP (the very first business school, founded in 1819). His key research topic is related to creative practices in organizations. He has particular interest in making creativity accessible to the “non-creative”. His approach draws from observing similar patterns in all types of creative activities, whether in art or entrepreneurship.
Based on his research, Sylvain designed Art Thinking: A method to create the improbable with certainty. He teaches this method at ESCP as well as at Stanford, HEC Montreal, Oulu University, Ecole de Guerre, Centrale Supélec or the coding school 42. The seminars are regularly organized in unique locations like Centre Pompidou, Musée des Beaux Arts of Montreal or Block House in Tokyo.
Sylvain has been a visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley and City University of New York. His research findings have been featured in various scientific journals as well as in Financial Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, Le Monde, Les Echos, France Culture…
Finally, Sylvain is the co-founder of Storymakers, an app to make pitches people remember, and co-author of Free Your Pitch (Pearson, 2018).
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