Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (born 1943 in The Netherlands) is a clinical professor of leadership development at INSEAD, where he holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development. He is the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre, program director of INSEAD's top management seminar, "The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders" and the program "Consulting and Coaching for Change", and received five times, INSEAD's distinguished teacher award. He is best known for bringing a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change.
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Career
Kets de Vries had held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business School, and 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 judged Manfred Kets de Vries one of world's leading thinkers on management.
Degrees and training
Professor Kets de Vries holds a Dutch Master degree in Economics (Econ. Drs.; 1966) from the University of Amsterdam; an International Teachers Program certificate (1967), M.B.A. (1968), and D.B.A. (1970) from Harvard Business School, and received training from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (member in 1982). He is also a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Academic work
He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty-four books and has published over 250 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. His books and articles have been translated into twenty languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. Most notable publications by Kets de Vries were his books 'Organizations on the Couch' (1991) and 'The Neurotic Organization' (1984; together with Danny Miller).
Consulting
Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading U.S., Canadian, European, African, and Asian companies. As an educator and consultant he has worked in more than forty countries.
Personal trivia
The Dutch government has made him an Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau.
