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Svenja is Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, where she directs Leading for Results, one of INSEAD’s flagship leadership programmes. She also directs the Women Leaders and Aspiring Women Leaders programme. Svenja teaches Psychological Issues in Management in the MBA, and directs experiential leadership development programmes for global corporations in the energy, technology, media and luxury goods industries. For the last decade, she has served on the faculty and coaching staff of numerous INSEAD open-enrolment and company-specific programmes, including the Leadership Transition Programme, Executive MBA, the Management Acceleration Programme, Advanced Management Programme and the High Impact Leadership Programme. Svenja also consults to and coaches executives in corporations around the world. She has won multiple awards for her teaching and programme directing.
Svenja’s research and practice is aimed at developing responsible and effective leadership by understanding the underlying systems psychodynamics. She draws on her extensive experience from working in multinational corporate organisations and her academic background in clinical and organisational psychology.
As a senior learning and development manager for Daimler and HSBC, Svenja led global initiatives on organizational development, change management, and talent assessment and development. Prior to those corporate roles, she worked in psychiatric institutions in Germany and the United States.
Her unique combination of experience and expertise enables Svenja to pay equal attention to individual, group, and organizational factors that affect leaders’ growth and success. She particularly focuses on senior leadership transitions and supporting leaders in major organisational change initiatives. For the past decade, she has been involved in the design and delivery of executive programmes for senior women leaders, supporting their transition to the most senior leadership positions.
Svenja studied clinical psychology and Psychoanalysis at the University of Bremen and at Stanford University, California. She also holds an Executive Masters with distinction from INSEAD Business School. Born and raised in Germany, she now divides her time between London and France with her husband and two daughters.
Svenja Weber
Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Svenja Weber
Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
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Elizabeth Baily Wolf is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.
Professor Wolf’s research seeks to identify and challenge people's limiting beliefs about who and what can be professional. To be professional means conform the norms of how an "ideal worker" should look and behave. In most traditional American, European, and multinational organizations, people believe that ideal workers should suppress their emotions, avoid close relationships with co-workers, and prioritize their career success above all else. Although emotion regulation, task focus, and work commitment can facilitate worker effectiveness, the beliefs that ideal workers should suppress all emotions, avoid relationships, and exclusively prioritize work limit workers' ability to effectively express themselves, communicate with their colleagues, integrate their work and personal lives, and prioritize their non-work roles. Limiting beliefs about professionalism also lead people to punish or exclude workers who they perceive to be too emotional, relational, or committed to non-work roles to fit the ideal worker image. Although the image of the ideal worker is changing, lingering beliefs about emotion and relationships at work, work-life balance, and the fit between the ideal worker image and stereotypes of out-groups continue to constrain workers and limit the careers of women and minorities. Professor Wolf's research identifies these lingering limiting beliefs, highlights their consequences, and develops interventions to change them.
Professor Wolf has published her work in leading academic journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Her research has received various media mentions, including coverage by Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, Forbes, and NPR.
At INSEAD, Professor Wolf teaches Negotiations in the MBA program and Organisational Behaviour to PhD students. She was selected as the Best Elective Professor in Fontainebleau by the INSEAD 19J and 20J graduating classes and has received the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching each time she has taught.
Before coming to INSEAD, Professor Wolf completed her PhD in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She received her BA summa cum laude with honors from Connecticut College, where she double majored in Psychology and Hispanic Studies and received her CISLA certificate in International Studies. Born to a British father and American mother, Professor Wolf grew up in the United States. She has also spent time living in Spain and Germany.
Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
