Elizabet Engellau
Director

Elisabet Engellau specializes in one-on-one executive coaching, leadership development, cross-cultural management, team building and gender issues. Her professional activities are focused on the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. In her work with individuals and teams in organizations all over the world, she combines her long-term interest in creativity with a clini¬cal approach to human resource management. Her clients include Lundbeck, McKinsey, Nokia, National Australian Bank, Troika Dialogue, SEB, and SABMiller. Her special interests have also included women in business , particularly in the Middle East. She has been an invited speaker at the Executive Seminar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the 2nd New Arab Women’s Forum in Beirut, Lebenon, the First Women Leadership Forum in Dubai, UAE and the Women in Business Conference in Muscat, Oman.

Elisabet Engellau is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management at INSEAD. She is the program director of INSEAD’s program for the Fellows and Directors of the World Economic Forum. She has been an affiliate professor at McGill University, Faculty of Management, a teaching fellow at Harvard University and Concordia University, Montreal. She has also produced and directed a number of video films for management education and has been involved in developing feedback instruments, widely used in leadership development. She has written a number of articles on leadership coaching and is the co-author of “Doing an Alexander: Lessons on Leadership by a Master Conqueror” (2004) and contributing author to the books Conversations in Leadership: South African Perspectives (2004), Coach and Couch (2006) and the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Harvard University Press (2009).

Her previous professional experience includes production and management in a variety of creative fields in an international context. She has studied at Uppsala, Harvard, and McGill universities, and has undertaken psychoanalytic training in Montreal and Paris. She is a member of the Research Group on Leadership Practices, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Institut de Psychanalyse et Management (I.P&M), France.