Manfred Kets de Vries
One of the world's top leadership and strategy experts
Manfred 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, MBA, and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), Kets de Vries scrutinizes the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, team building, coaching, and the dynamics of corporate transformation and change.
A clinical professor of leadership development, he holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France & Singapore. He is the Director of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Center. In addition, he is program director of INSEAD's top management program, "The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence,” and “Consulting and Coaching for Change (and has five times received 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 he has lectured at management institutions around the world.
The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries one of world's leading leadership thinkers. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world’s top fifty leading management thinkers and among the most influential contributors to human resource management. He has also been given the Lifetime Achievement Award (the Leadership Legacy Project of the International Leadership Association), being viewed one of the world’s six founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and discipline.
Kets de Vries is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including The Neurotic Organization, Leaders, Fools and Impostors, Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane, The Leadership Mystique and The Happiness Equation and Are Leaders Made or Are They Born? The Case of Alexander the Great, The New Russian Business Elite, Leadership by Terror, The Global Executive Leadership Inventory, The Leader on the Couch, Coach and Couch, and The Family Business on the Couch. Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: The Quest for Authenticity, Reflections on Leadership and Character, and Reflections on Leadership and Career. Two new books are in preparation: The Coaching Kaleidoscope, and Reflections on Organizations (to be published in 2010).
In addition, Kets de Vries has published over 300 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. He has also written approximately a hundred case studies, including seven that received the Best Case of the Year award. He is a regular writer for a number of magazines. His work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Business Week, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The International Herald Tribune. His books and articles have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards and has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Kets de Vries is also the first non-American recipient of ILA Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to leadership research and development.).
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 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
• Reflections on Leadership and Career Development (2009), by Manfred Kets de Vries
• Beyond Coaching: Creating Best Places to Work (2009), by Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guillen, Konstantin Korotov & Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (editors) (2009)
• Leadership Development (forthcoming 2009), by Manfred Kets de Vries & Konstantin Korotov (editors) (2009)
• Sex, Money, Happiness and Death: The Quest for Authenticity, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (2009)
• The Anarchist Within, by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (2009)
• Reflections on Character and Leadership, by Manfred Kets de Vries (2009)
• 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)
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