December 12, 2023
From November 29 to December 1, 2023, Executive Education HEC Montréal welcomed more than 260 representatives from some of the world’s leading universities to the UNICON Team Development Conference. The event was a unique opportunity to empower the executive education industry and discuss issues of critical importance to its players.
Hundreds of representatives from 75 prestigious universities in 15 countries and 6 continents, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cambridge and MIT, gathered together at the Hélène Desmarais Building in downtown Montreal for this three-day event.
« Le choix de HEC Montréal comme hôtesse du congrès 2023 d’UNICON renforce le rôle stratégique de l’École des dirigeant(e)s, qui consiste à développer de la formation pour cadres et personnes dirigeantes de classe mondiale. Cela met en lumière la vocation et la réputation dans le monde entier de l’École en tant que pôle d’excellence et de réflexion dans ce domaine. Ce fut un honneur d’accueillir dans notre belle métropole l’élite universitaire internationale. »
Serge Lafrance
Directeur et professeur associé, École des dirigeant(e)s HEC Montréal
Membre du conseil d’administration, et coprésident des comités Benchmarking et Continuity, UNICON
A Focus On Pressing Industry Issues
Built around three pillars - nurturing talent, collaborating for success and innovating for the future - the three-day program dealt with topics that impact the entire industry:
- Major worldwide challenges, especially those related to attracting and retaining skilled professionals and fostering collaboration
- The latest advances on the technology front, including generative AI and other game-changing innovations
- The ever-evolving landscape of education and learning.
World-renowned specialists were called upon to weigh in on these issues and share their expertise with conference attendees. These included a number of well-known figures from Quebec, among them Fady Dagher, Chief, Service de police de la Ville de Montréal; Laetitia Debout, Partner, Advisory – Management Consulting, KPMG Canada, Alexandre Despatie, Olympic diving medallist; Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, professional football player and medical school graduate; Daniel Lamarre, Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group; Ghislain Picard, Chief, Assembly of First Nations Québec-Labrador; Frantz Saintellemy, President and COO, LeddarTech; Danièle Sauvageau, hockey executive and coach; and Solenne Savoia, Project Manager, AI for Humanity, Mila.
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Danielle Sauvageau
Alexandre Despatie
Laeticia Debout
Fady Dagher
Daniel Lamarre
Ghislain Picard
Solenne Savoia
Frantz Saintellemy
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Danielle Sauvageau
Alexandre Despatie
Laeticia Debout
Fady Dagher
Daniel Lamarre
Ghislain Picard
Solenne Savoia
Frantz Saintellemy
Among the HEC Montréal faculty who played a key role in moderating the presentations and panel discussions were Marine Agogué, Sébastien Arcand, Alain Gosselin, Joé T. Martineau, Sylvain Sénécal and Laurent Simon. Professor Louis Hébert from the Department of Management served as emcee and received glowing praise for his boundless energy, infectious humour and in-depth expertise.
Sébastien Arcand
Sylvain Sénecal
Joé T. Martineau
Laurent Simon
Louis Hébert
Marine Agogue
Alain Gosselin
Sébastien Arcand
Sylvain Sénecal
Joé T. Martineau
Laurent Simon
Louis Hébert
Marine Agogue
Alain Gosselin
Reaping The Benefits Of Shared Knowledge
On each of the days, conference attendees had a choice of several workshops, selected based on their own priorities and fields of professional interest. Through these workshops, they were able to tap into a wealth of knowledge and expertise from the four corners of the planet in order to glean invaluable insights into best practices in executive education. This is precisely where UNICON excels: in bringing people together to share knowledge, grow and develop together, and become the best they can be.
« Unicon vise à aider ses 115 écoles membres à améliorer la qualité, l’efficacité et l’efficience de leurs offres de formation pour cadres et à répondre aux besoins d’une industrie en constante évolution. Quelle chance incroyable d’avoir pu toutes et tous se réunir à Montréal pour ainsi gagner en intelligence collective! Merci à l’École des dirigeantes et dirigeants HEC Montréal d’avoir organisé un événement d’une telle ampleur. »
Jean Choy
Doyenne associée, Michael G. Foster School of Business, Université de Washington
Présidente du conseil d’administration, UNICON
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UNICON is a global consortium of business school–based executive education organizations dedicated to forging a bright future for its member institutions and the learners they serve. UNICON takes the lead in holding conferences, conducting research and comparative studies, sharing best practices and facilitating recruitment, development and networking to spread new knowledge, inspiration and perspectives and bring an unrivalled network of executive education professionals together.
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trust us to cater to their training needs
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who fine-tune their skills with us every year
For the past 70 years, Executive Education HEC Montréal has been training top business leaders who, by contributing to the success of their own organizations, drive lasting economic growth for society as a whole. A member of the UNICON consortium since 2018, Executive Education HEC Montréal has a portfolio of over 100 short programs — offered in class, online, or in the workplace — that cater to the needs of over 9,000 learners every year. Celebrated for its outstanding contributions to executive learning, its programs have been rated #1 in Quebec and #2 in Canada by the Financial Times Executive Education Rankings 2023.
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