Heart Leadership University

Faced with three major challenges (ecological collapse, inequalities, deviant uses of AI), the HLU association was founded in 2021 by Jean-Noël Thorel and Hélène Le Teno.

To preserve our humanity in the 21st century, we have chosen a specific lever: enabling everyone, and especially leaders, to develop their emotional intelligence (intuition, empathy and courage) to (re)find their alignment and make better decisions.

Our ambition

To offer a unique space for education, research and debate, in order to change the imaginaries and practices of leadership, and to create a movement of pioneering leaders driven by the intelligence of the heart.

Three areas of action

A research hub

Heart Leadership University includes an interdisciplinary, applied, and independent research hub.

We therefore support several research programs in the humanities and social sciences, and in biology, focusing on the imaginaries and practices of leadership, in order to move towards a contributive, viable, sustainable, desirable economy in a world undergoing rapid change.

An Educational Mission

“From heart to action”: HLU’s unique transformational journey, “on the ground and among peers,” is for leaders who want to establish a new relationship with themselves, their organization, and the planet, and to lead and decide with heartfelt intelligence.

HLU also offers numerous short formats within executive networks, “executive” training programs, and business schools.

Freely accessible resources

HLU provides a variety of resources free of charge (reading recommendations, video testimonials from leaders and expert opinions, selection of tests) to enable everyone to develop their emotional intelligence.

HLU organizes many open events: round tables, conferences, workshops, to debate and put into action a desirable Leadership for the 21st century.

Partners