François Héon, M.A.Sc., Ph.D.
Leadership Development for Groups and Individuals
3600, Ave du Parc. Apt. 920
Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3R4
Canada
Email: fheon@francoisheon.com
Web: www.francoisheon.com
Cell: 514-971-3030
François completed his Master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and then pursued his Ph.D. coursework in organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland.
He then worked on institutional change projects in Romania (1991) and Burundi (1994-1996) and began an ongoing collaboration with Organizational Behavior Development in Belgium conducting international leadership programs.
Back in Canada in 1996, François took on new challenges with the development and management of alternative support services for psychiatric patients in the community. It is in this context that he discovered his talent and passion for individual accompaniment and pursued clinical training at McGill’s Allen Memorial Institute.
Yearning to return to the field of consulting with his management and clinical experience, he then took the leadership of Adecco Canada’s new consulting division, The House of Leaders (2002-2005) and pursued this last project in its transition to become Esse Leadership (2005-2009).
In 2009, François chose to pursue his passion for the development of leaders and groups by working under his own name, while continuing ongoing partnerships in Canada and internationally.
François has worked with several different type of clients in many industries to develop their leadership potential through workshops and seminars.
With a team of international co-editors, he published in 2014 a book of Mary P. Follett’s writings on leadership and democracy titled Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today.
He has recently co-edited writings of management pioneer Mary Parker Follett entitled The Essential Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today (2014), translated in French, Arabic and soon in Dutch. He has also published The Yin and Yang of Leadership: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to Democratic Leading in 2018, as well as Leadership Is a Choice: Choosing the Two Transformational Attitudes of Leadership in Your Everyday Life in 2023, both reader-friendly books which are based on his PhD study of the leadership model he has successfully developed and applied in his international consulting practice.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), where he studied the successful impact with former clients of the Yin and Yang Leadership Model he developed for individuals and collectives.
