Upcoming Sessions
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Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
5 + 5 + 5 + 5
Fees
€
42,700
Programme Director
Graham Ward
Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Graham Ward is Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD Business School in France.
He is the academic director of a number of company specific executive programs at INSEAD including HSF, Unicredit, Pernod Ricard, Essilor Luxxotica, AB Foods, and Allen and Overy among others. He was also a leadership development practice director at the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre for 15 years. He has worked as visiting faculty at Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, Moscow Higher School of Economics and ESMT in Berlin.
Graham’s expertise is in leadership, high performance teams, group dynamics, team dysfunction and change. His doctoral dissertation, published in 2013 is a theory of small group executive coaching using a psychodynamic approach.
Outside of INSEAD, he specializes in coaching C-suite executives and teams. He consults around team dysfunctions, team and organisational development, and communication. Privately he has worked with senior executives at McKinsey, Siemens, Bristol Myers Squibb, AXA, Aviva, Georgia Capital, HSBC, Tesco, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Bank, E.On, UBS, Shell and BP among others.
Graham Ward’s experience as a professor, leadership consultant and CEO Advisor is grounded in an extensive business career in multinational organisations. Graham spent 22 years in finance, 16 of which working for Goldman Sachs, where for seven years he co-led the European Equity business. In 2000, Graham spearheaded an initiative to introduce a Global Leadership Development office that he led for three years, plus led the Diversity initiative division-wide, created the Women’s Committee and other minority networks.
In his work, Graham helps leaders to address behavioral blind spots, develop strengths and eliminate destructive leadership characteristics, thereby enhancing performance through insights and development derived from a combination of the behavioral sciences and action learning.
Graham combines a vigorous coaching style with a supportive framework. His coaching approach is both to encourage the client to reflect while at the same time challenging assumptions and asking the questions that the client may have avoided asking themselves. Graham uses his education in organisational psychology to look holistically at the client, from their abilities to manage transversal, subordinate and superior roles, to the climate the leader creates in his organisation and team. Graham helps the client to push at the boundaries of their comfort zone, to enhance leadership skills in line with their values and ensure greater effectiveness and higher performance for the leader and the organisation.
Graham received his PhD from the economics faculty of the Vrije University in Amsterdam in 2014. He holds an M.Sc and Diploma from HEC/INSEAD in Clinical Organisational Psychology. In 1994 he received a Diploma of Investment Management from the London Business School. He is licensed to use the MBTI, Leadership Circle/GELI/LAQ/Personality Audit and Cultural Audit.
Graham was a contributing author to the books Coach and Couch, The Psychology of Making Better Leaders published in 2007 and The Coaching Kaleidoscope published in 2010. He authored the academic paper Towards Executive Change 2008 and The Use of Transitional Space 2009.
Graham lives in London and travels extensively throughout the world, at last count having visited over 70 countries including Syria and North Korea.
Graham Ward
Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Faculty
Elisabet Engellau
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management
Elisabet Engellau is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management at INSEAD and founding faculty of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC). For ten years she was Leadership Development Program Director for programmes such as AMP, EMC, EMBA, YMP, IDP, WEF and several company specific programmes.
Since 2014 she is joint faculty of the top executive programme Challenge of Leadership.
She has been affiliate professor at McGill University, Faculty of Management, teaching fellow at Harvard University and Concordia University, Montreal and visiting faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Prince Sultan University, Riyadh.
She has produced and directed several video films for management education and has been involved in developing a number of online feedback instruments.
She is the co- author of “Doing an Alexander”: Lessons on Leadership by a Master Conqueror (2004) and contributing author to the books Conversations in Leadership: South African Perspectives (2004), Coach and Couch (2006) and the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Harvard University Press (2009).
She studied at Uppsala University, Harvard University and McGill University (and has undertaken psychoanalytic training in Montreal and Paris).
She is a member of the Research Group on Leadership Practices, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Institut de Psychanalyse et Management (I.P&M), France.
Elisabet Engellau
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management
Please note programme faculty may change.
