Manfred Kets de Vries

Manfred Kets de Vries brings a unique perspective 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 (member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), Kets de Vries scrutinizes the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His particular 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'A vaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France & Singapore. He is also the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center. In addition, he is program director of INSEAD's top management seminar, "The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders" and the program "Coaching and Consulting 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. 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..

Manfred Kets de Vries is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 22 books, including The Neurotic Organization, Leaders, Fools and Impostors, Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane, The Leadership Mystique, The Happiness Equation, The New Russian Business Elite, Leadership Lessons of Alexander the Great, Leadership by Terror, The Global Executive Leadership Inventory and Leaders on the Couch.

In addition, Manfred Kets de Vries has published over 250 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. He has also written approximately a hundred case studies, including eight that received the Best Case of the Year award from the ECCH. 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. He writes regularly for a number of magazines. His books and articles have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards and is one of the few Europeans elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He was also the first non-American recipient of the International Leadership Award for "his contributions to the classroom and the board room."

Manfred Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading U.S., Canadian, European, African, Australian and Asian companies.
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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, Amhemland, the Pamir mountains, or within the Arctic circle.