ECMLG 2025- Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 21st European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2025), hosted by ACI and CESI, Paris-Nanterre on 13-14 November 2025. The Conference Chair was Stéphanie Buisine, and the Programme Chairs was Muriel Davies both from CESI, Paris-Nanterre.

ECMLG is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 21st year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The aims and scope of the conference is to be a forum for practical, technical and theoretical exchange about the study, management, development and implementation of issues pertaining to management, leadership and governance from a multidisciplinary context.

The opening keynote presentation was given by Stéphanie Buisine from CESI Paris-Nanterre, who spoke about The Future of Leadership. The second day of the conference opened with an address from Daniel Ahlers, Centre for Coaching (Europe) who discussed Team Coaching: Overcoming Corporate Contradiction.

With an initial submission of 156 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 47 Academic research papers, 7 PhD research papers, 2 Masters Research papers and 5 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, Türkiye, UAE UK, USA