Upcoming Sessions
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Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
Fees
€
11,600
The Leading for Results programme is taught by INSEAD faculty specialising in leadership behaviour, organisational performance, and leading in complex business environments. Together, they bring deep expertise in how leaders deliver results through others by setting direction, mobilising commitment, and adapting their behaviour to sustain performance under pressure.
Programme Directors
Henrik Bresman is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD and a recognized expert on leadership, high-performance teams, and organizational change. He regularly works with companies and public-sector organizations embarking on large-scale transformations.
Professor Bresman’s research draws on data from multiple contexts, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, software development, healthcare, and government. His work has appeared in leading academic and practice journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Organization Science, as well as many media outlets, including the Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, the New York Times, Time, and the Wall Street Journal.
He is the co-author of the book X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023), which examines how teams at all levels can take on strategic leadership roles and change the direction of their organizations.
Professor Bresman’s teaching focuses on developing leaders for an exponentially changing world. He directs INSEAD’s flagship general management program for emerging leaders, the Management Acceleration Program, and the senior executive program, Leading for Results.
Before entering academia, Professor Bresman worked in several roles as a manager, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He co-founded a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology businesses.
He is an experienced board member and keynote speaker. Bresman holds a BS and an MS in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Henrik Bresman
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Henrik Bresman
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
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
