Leadership a la Francaise: How GE's Clara Gaymard Does It

Leadership a la Francaise: How GE's Clara Gaymard Does It Clara Gaymard is not dressing like the executive who engineered GE’s purchase of French industrial company Alstom in 2014 when she comes to meet me in the lobby of GE’s Paris headquarters in the city’s “noble” seventh arrondissement. The flowered dress, leather jacket and matching knee-high riding boots is a fashion statement you wouldn’t expect from one of the world’s most powerful women: President of GE France, Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, President of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, a Board Member of the French-American Foundation, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and mother of nine children: six girls and three boys, aged 17-28. “Nine” is not a typ-o. Clara Gaymard has always been a thinking woman who does things her way.