Executive Education

How do we create tipping points in leadership development to ensure significant and sustainable improvements in leadership performance? Our research explores the active ingredient of leadership development and how to create sustainable, long-term change beyond quick fixes.

"Business schools and a holistic approach to education"

Finding balance in business education

To create responsible leaders of the future, business schools need to adopt a more holistic approach to education. To what degree are business educators helping to transform individuals and improve and influence business practice?

Education Post, Jan 2016

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"A holistic approach to business education"

Finding Balance in Business Education

To create responsible leaders of the future, business schools need to adopt a more holistic approach to education.

INSEAD Knowledge, Nov 2015

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"The challenges of leadership"

Leiders zijn geregeld zelfdestructief

An interview with Manfred Kets de Vries where he speaks about his work with CEOs, good and bad leadership, and especially about his Challenge of Leadership program at INSEAD.

Elsevier, Jan 2014

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"Leadership development for long term change"

Transformational Leadership Development Programs: Creating Long-term Sustainable Change

This working paper argues for leadership development programmes focusing on creating long term change rather than quick fixes.

INSEAD Working Paper, Sep 2010

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"Profile of INSEAD CCC programme"

Coach der Meisterklasse

INSEAD's Coaching and Consulting for Change programme is profiled in an article in Handelsblatt.

Handelsblatt, Apr 2009

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"Profiel fo a tansfor- mational leadership programme"

Sustainable Effectiveness of a Transformational Leadership Development Program: An Exploratory Study

This paper explores the impact of a transformational leadership development program on the lives of its participants after a one year interval.

INSEAD Working Paper, Mar 2009

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"Leadership development as a transitional journey"

The Proof is in the Pudding: An Integrative, Psychodynamic Approach to Evaluating a Leadership Development Program

This paper describes transitional leadership development programs as the beginning of a journey, and propose that for this type of program, an integrated collaborative approach to evaluation is logical and appropriate.

INSEAD Working Paper, Mar 2008

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"Leadership development programme and long- tem effect"

Long-term Effectiveness of a Transitional Leadership Development Program: An Exploratory Study

This working paper explores how a transformational leadership development program can affect the lives of its participants.

INSEAD Working Paper, Feb 2008

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"Executive programs for long-term leadership development"

Creating Transformational Executive Education Programs

This essay describes the design of transformational executive programs in the long-term development of leaders, suggesting that being more deliberate and focused on leadership development requires revisiting traditional views of students’ expectations, curricula and pedagogies.

Academy of Management, Learning &Development, Sep 2007

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"Design of transfor- mational executive programs"

Creating Identity Laboratories to Enable Executive Change and Transformation

This working paper describes the design of transformational executive programs and presents three conceptual frameworks for facilitating change.

INSEAD Working Paper, Mar 2006

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"Leadership programmes as catalyst for change"

Can Leaders Change? Yes, But Only If They Want To

This paper describes how people change using as their catalyst an executive leadership programme offered at INSEAD, an international business school in France.

INSEAD Working Paper, Mar 2002

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