Manfred Kets de Vries
One of the world's top leadership and strategy - During the 2008 World Economic Forum at Davos, Kets de Vries participated in three workshops: "Innovations in Leadership, Taboos and Deciphering Status"
Manfred Kets de Vries is a Clinical Professor of Leadership Development who holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD. He is the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre (IGLC), the Program Director of INSEAD's top management seminar 'The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders' and of the programs 'Consulting and Coaching for Change: Creating Reflective Change Agents'and 'Leadership for Creativity: Insights to Expand the Limits of Organizational Performance'. He has received the INSEAD's distinguished teacher award five times.
Kets de Vries has also held professorships at McGill University's Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Montreal and the Harvard Business School in Boston and has lectured at management institutions around the world. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have judged Manfred Kets de Vries one of world's leading thinkers on leadership.
He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty-four books and has published over 250 scientific papers as chapters in books, or as articles. His books and articles have been translated into twenty different languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards and he has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. As a global consultant, his client portfolio reads like the Fortune 100, and his unique views on the nature of individual and organizational change have made him one of today's most sought-after business speakers for keynote
Kets de Vries is also a consultant of strategic human resource management and organizational design and transformation to many of the world’s leading companies in 40 countries. He practices executive development work with such organizations as:
ABB, ABN-AMRO, Accenture, Aegon, Air Liquide, Alcan, Alcatel, Bain Consulting, Bang & Olufsen, Bonnier, BP, L. M. Ericsson, DMGT, GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, Heineken, HypoVereinsbank, Investec, KPMG, Lego, Liberty Li fe, Lufthansa, Lundbeck, McKinsey, Nokia, Novartis, NovoNordisk, Rank Xerox, Russian Standard, SABMillers, Shell, SHV, Standard Bank of South Africa, Troika Dialog, Unilever and Volvo Car Corporation.
Kets de Vries has a distinctive competence in the in-house assessment of the quality of organizational leadership and in Leadership Audits. They focus not just on individual leaders, but also on the dynamics of executive teams, providing advice on how to reshape the team dynamics to create a high performance organization. They help each organization understand what factors drive its success or failure and how to improve its ability to adapt to changing situations.
A charismatic and humorous speaker, Kets de Vries’ thought-provoking presentations use extensive examples from his work with major corporations to make his speeches enjoyable, tangible and easy to learn from. He also provides tailored workshops to develop participants effectiveness in their leadership roles.
The Dutch government has made him an Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau. He was the first fly fisherman in Outer Mongolia and is a member of New York's Explorers Club. In his spare time he can be found in the rainforests or savannas of Central Africa, the Siberian taiga, Arnhemland, the Pamir mountains, or within the Arctic circle.
He presents in English or Dutch.
His specific areas of research include
• Effective leadership
• Organizational stress
• Career dynamics
• Entrepreneurship and family business
• Cross-cultural management
• The process of organizational transformation and change
• The darker side of leadership
• High performance teams and high performance organizations
• Leadership derailment and its prevention
• Relationships between leadership, corporate culture and strategic decision-making
• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Leadership and the career life cycle
• Creating executive role constellations
• Psychodynamics of leadership transition
Publications
• The Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective, by M Kets de Vries & Randel Carlock, with Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (2007)
• Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders, edited by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Konstantin Korotov & Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (2007)
• The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People & Organizations, by M F.R. Kets de Vries (2006)
• The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise (2nd edition), by M F.R. Kets de Vries (2006)
• The Global Executive Leadership Inventory, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (2005),
• Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding a Shaka Zulu in the Attic, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (2005)
• The New Russian Business Leaders, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Konstantin Korotov & Stanislav Shekshnia (2004)
• Are Leaders Born or Are They Made: The Case of Alexander the Great, by M F.R. Kets de Vries & Elisabet Engellau (2004)
• The Happiness Equation, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (2002)