About Francis Gouillart
Francis Gouillart is a co-founder and president of the Experience Co-Creation Partnership (ECC Partnership), a consulting firm built to implement co-creative management processes and organizational capabilities with corporate clients around the world. He also teaches in the Executive Education program at the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Gouillart is co-author, with Venkat Ramaswamy, of the forthcoming book The Power of Co-Creation: Build It with Them to Boost Growth, Productivity, and Profits (Simon & Schuster Free Press, October 2010). He previously co-authored (with James Kelly) the book Transforming the Organization (McGraw-Hill), which reached the top of BusinessWeek’s best-seller list in 1995. He is also co-author (with Frederick Sturdivant) of the article “Spend a Day in the Life of Your Customers,” published by Harvard Business Review (January-February 1994). He also authored Stratégie pour une Entreprise Compétitive (Editions Economica, Paris), which was named “Best Strategy Book of the Year” by the French Association of Strategic Planners (AFPLANE) in 1989.
He is considered a leading authority on the topic of strategy, innovation, transformation, and capabilities-building and is a recognized speaker, professor and advisor on Experience Co-Creation, Blue Ocean Strategy, and Organizational Transformation.
Mr. Gouillart received his MBA from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and currently resides in Concord, Massachusetts.