SPEAKER: MANFRED KETS DE VRIES

The unique ability to analyse organisations through the combination of the thoughtful logic of the academic, with the deep insight of the practising psycho-analyst, has established Professor Kets de Vries as one of Europe’s leading management authorities.

He holds the Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Chair of Human Resources Management at INSEAD, and has received its distinguished teacher’s award five times. Professor de Vries has a degree in Economics from Amsterdam University, as well as an MBA, Harvard USA. He was awarded a DBA at Harvard University and studied psycho-analysis at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute.

He has held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Montreal and Harvard Business School. Manfred Kets de Vries is the author of eleven books and over a hundred scientific papers. Consultant to a wide range of companies on a global basis, he has been listed by The Financial Times, Wirtschaftswoche, Le Capital and The Economist as one of Europe?s business gurus.

He is a dynamic and thought provoking speaker who uses extensive examples from his work with major corporations to make his speeches very enjoyable, tangible and easy to learn from.

His topics include:
• Leadership for the next Millennium
• Development of the Global Leader
• Leadership - Building International Teams
• Organisational Transformation
• The Learning Organisation
• High-Performance Workplace
• Leadership in High Performance Organisations
• Empowerment and Management Development

His publications include:
1. The Neurotic Organisation: Diagnosis and Changing Counter-Productive Styles of Management (1984, 1990 with D. Miller)
2. Prisoners of Leadership (1989)
3. Organisations on the Couch (1991)
4. Leaders, Fools and Impostors (1993)
5. Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Organisations and Leadership (1995)
6.The New Global Leaders (1999)