MANFRED F.R. KETS DE VRIES brings a unique perspective to the
much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual
and organizational change. He is a clinical professor of leadership
development and holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of
Leadership Development at INSEAD, France & Singapore. He is
also the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center. He has 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. 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 rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world's top fifty
thinkers on management and among the world's most influential
people in human resource management.
He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 24 books and
over 250 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles.
His books and articles have been translated into more than 25
languages. He was also the first non-American recipient of
the International Leadership Award for "his contributions to the
classroom and the board room."
Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational
design/transformation and strategic human resource management to
leading US, Canadian, European, African, Australian and Asian
companies. As an educator and consultant he has worked in more than
forty countries.
DR. RANDEL S. CARLOCK is the first Berghmans Lhoist Chaired
Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership, the founding Director of
the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise and a
founding board member of the Global Leadership Centre at INSEAD.
Previously he was the first Opus Professor of Family Enterprise and
founder of the family business center at the University of St.
Thomas in Minneapolis, MN (USA). Carlock has an MA in education and
training (1976), an MBA in strategic management (1983), and a Ph.D.
(1991), all from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral
dissertation explored the role of organization development in
managing high growth entrepreneurial firms. He has also completed a
post graduate certification in family and marriage therapy at the
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London
(1998) and a certificate in psychodynamic counseling at Birkbeck
College, University of London (1999). He was awarded a Certificate
in Family Business Advising with Fellow Status (2001) by The Family
Firm Institute, Boston, MA (USA).
He is the author of several books, articles, book chapters,
videos and case studies. He has over 25 years of experience serving
as an executive with a global family business and as CEO and
chairman of his own NASDAQ listed corporation. He currently advises
global business families and corporations around the world
specializing in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
ELIZABETH FLORENT-TREACY, Research Project Manager at INSEAD,
Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore, She works in the INSEAD
Global Leadership Centre, and the Wendel International Centre for
Family Enterprise. She has conducted research in the following
areas: global leadership; global organizations; corporate culture
in European and global organizations; American, French and Russian
business practices; family business issues (governance, succession,
strategy); entrepreneurial leadership; cross-cultural management;
women and global leadership; cultural aspects of mergers and
acquisitions; transformational leadership; expatriate executives
and families; and the psychodynamics of leadership. She holds
degrees in Sociology (BA) and Organization Development (MA).
Elizabeth has written authored or co-authored 4 books, 21
articles, working papers and book chapters and 18 case studies on
leadership and family business topics.