Vanessa Marcié

Dr Vanessa Marcié, an expert on Humour and Leadership, is the founder and CEO of Leading With Humour, an innovative consulting firm that helps executives to harness the power of humour in their change management strategies.

She is an international speaker and pioneer of theories of change through humour. Vanessa bridges entertainment, business and academia. Vanessa gives more than 25 conferences a year in France and abroad. Since 2019, she has impacted more than 8,000 people.

She has worked with many large private / public sector organisations such as Unilever, Linkedin, Inmarsat, France Public Investment Bank (BPI) and the UK Department of International Trade. She is a guest speaker at several top business schools and universities: Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, London Business School, Oxford University, Toulouse Business School and Edhec Business School.

Her main message: If you want to accelerate your business or career success, you need to understand the art and science of humour in leadership.

Her research work on Humour and Leadership has been published in The Financial Times, The European Business Review, La Tribune and Harvard Business Review France and Elle Magazine.

She is a Cambridge Wo + Men’s Leadership Center Associate and a Fellow of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (IKE Institute) which recognised her research work in innovation.

She is also a finalist of the 2019 PWN Global Gender Balanced Leadership Awards which recognize excellence in research for gender-balanced leadership.

In 2020, Vanessa has been appointed academic in residence of The Hopenclass, .

Vanessa Marcié is a two times TEDx Speaker (TEDxESADE 2021 and TEDx Cambridge University 2021)

She is a stand-up comedian who has created two comedy clubs, one in London and one in Cannes, scenes on which she regularly performs.