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Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries
Netherlands

Clinical Professor of Leadership Development

The Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development

Director, INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC)



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MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics (Econ. Drs., University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, M.B.A., and D.B.A., HBS), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), he scrutinizes the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership development, top executive team building and organizational change.

A clinical professor of leadership development, he holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD. He is the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre, program director of INSEAD's top management seminar, "The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders" and the program "Consulting and Coaching for Change", and received five times, INSEAD's distinguished teacher award. He has also held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business School, 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 management.

He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books and has published over 300 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. His books and articles have been translated into twenty languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading U.S., Canadian, European, African, and Asian companies. As an educator and consultant he has worked in more than forty countries.

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, Australia's Arnhem Land, the Pamir Mountains, or the barren wastelands of the Arctic.


Research Areas

Leadership Development/Entrepreneurship; Career Dynamics; Executive Stress; Family Business and Succession Planning; Cross-Cultural Management; The Dynamics of Organisational Transformation and Change; Leadership Coaching/Psychotherapy.


Teaching

The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders; Consulting and Coaching for Change: Creating Reflective Change Agents; Leadership for Change.

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