Loïc Sadoulet

Strategic Agility | Organisational Transformation | Enterprise & Ecosystem Leadership | AI-Enabled Innovation

Loïc Sadoulet is an Affiliate Professor of Economics at INSEAD, where he has been teaching since 2000. Loic also has more than 20 years of experience designing, directing and teaching executive education programmes for senior leaders and leadership teams worldwide.

A development economist by training, Loïc holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University. Before joining INSEAD, he worked as an economist at the World Bank and as a researcher and faculty member at the Free University of Brussels and at the Solvay Business School (Belgium). At INSEAD, he was a pioneer on the Singapore campus and, in 2006, founded the INSEAD Africa Initiative.

His work has evolved from economics, emerging markets and financial inclusion towards a broader focus on strategic agility, enterprise and ecosystem leadership, organisational transformation, and AI-enabled innovation. He works with senior leadership teams facing complex strategic challenges, helping them translate strategic insight into experimentation, organisational change and measurable business impact.

In Executive Education, Loïc designs and directs customised learning journeys for global organisations. Recent programmes and engagements include Visa Direct, Capital Group, Summa Equity, Amundi, Danske Bank, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, Hempel, Metso, Decathlon, Nexus Automotive International, APA Group, Juhayna, Packages Group, PharmEvo, and Emirates NBD. His work combines strategy, leadership, systems thinking, experiential learning and workplace application, with an increasing focus on how AI is reshaping organisations, decision-making and business models.

His recent work explores how organisations can build clarity and agility in conditions of uncertainty, move from functional to enterprise and ecosystem leadership, and use partnerships and emerging technologies to create new sources of value. He is currently developing research and practitioner work on the “partnership paradox” - how partnerships can enable established companies to explore opportunities beyond the logic of their core business and bring the resulting learning back into the organisation.

A strong believer in experiential learning, Loïc has developed pedagogical approaches including structured construction projects (in partnership with Splash Projects), creation of digital twins of organizations (in partnership with Inloop), learning expeditions (US, China, Korea, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Finland, South Africa), working with a horse whisperer, and agile methodologies. His programmes combine reflection, experimentation, coaching and workplace application to help executives turn learning into sustained organizational action.