The Frame Seminar Series
Six structured programs designed to produce documented commitments and operational transformations.
Led by Professor Mahamouda Salouhou, this series bridges Koestenbaum's Leadership Diamond® with modern operational excellence, helping executive leaders, academic boards, and emerging talents navigate high-pressure institutional environments.
Core Pedagogical Pillars
The operational framework underlying all six seminars, designed to balance systemic efficiency with human dignity.
Systemic Frame Recognition
Stepping out of the immediate operational picture to identify the background constraints, hidden assumptions, and structural limits that govern action.
Tension Holding
Holding the four essential vectors of leadership together in high-stakes decisions: Vision without fantasy, Reality without cruelty, Ethics, and Courage.
Dignity-Centric Lean
Applying Lean operating principles from the MIT tradition while introducing dignity metrics (time-to-calm, confusion-minutes) to protect team well-being.
Institutional Continuity
Designing clear succession models and mentorship pathways to pass on institutional soul, translating private wisdom into durable habit.
The Six Seminars
A progressive curriculum designed to move leaders and organizations from systemic awareness to operational transformation.
Stepping Out of the Picture
For master's students, young professionals, and emerging leaders.The structural discipline of frame-recognition, taught through the Three Lenses and bridged to the Leadership Diamond®. Students learn to isolate background assumptions and map organizational constraints.
- Outputs: Personal Frame Diagnostic and Map Your Frame worksheet.
- Scope: 6-month instructor access & vocational certificate.
The Leadership Diamond®
For managers, team leads, and senior executives.Tension-holding as a practice: vision without fantasy, reality without cruelty, ethics under pressure, and courage as method. Utilizes Dr. Peter Koestenbaum's Diamond Drill for complex decision audits.
- Features the Four Tests of ethics under pressure: reversibility, exposure, asymmetry, substitution.
- Outputs: A documented decision pathway for a live institutional problem.
The Discipline of Attention
For operations, quality, HR, and healthcare leaders.Efficiency and humanity are not in tension. Taught extensively in the executive and postgraduate programs at SKEMA Business School, this seminar reframes Lean Six Sigma as a discipline of attention. Learn to introduce 'Dignity Metrics' (time-to-calm, interruptions per hour, confusion-minutes) alongside traditional cycle times.
- Academic Home: Anchored in Lean Six Sigma certification programs at SKEMA Business School.
- Lineage: Built on MIT Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) University Working Group findings.
- Rituals: Implementation of the Friday Rule for structured team reflection.
The Working Architecture
For founders, directors, and operations managers.Aligning strategy, structure, and staff to prevent operational drift. Focuses on setting up high-quality educational and vocational frameworks.
- Outputs: Organizational audits and quality alignment matrix.
- Integrates Qualiopi vocational standards and Lean tools.
Mentorship & The Lineage
For senior leaders, founders, and academic chairs.Designing succession and mentorship pathways that pass on institutional soul, not just processes. Translating individual charisma into durable organization habits.
- Includes case studies of ECLEE, Jagora, and STEM+ institutional models.
- Focuses on long-term sustainability and cultural continuity.
Complete Immersion
For advanced cohorts and custom organizational teams.A deep, intensive, witnessed cohort experience solving real-world corporate or academic cases brought directly by the participants. Heavy emphasis on feedback and cohort accountability.
- Direct consultation with Professor Salouhou.
- Fully customized curriculum based on the Leadership Diamond framework.
Let Us Build What the World Needs
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