Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change
Biography
A clinical professor of leadership and organisational change, he held the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD from September 1992 to March 2013. He is the founder of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, the programme director of INSEAD's top management seminar The Challenge of Leadership, and the scientific director of the INSEAD Executive Master in Change. He has received the INSEAD Distinguished Teacher Award five times. He has 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.
Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist rated Manfred Kets de Vries as one of the world's top fifty leading management thinkers, as well as one of the most influential contributors to human resource management. In 2008, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association (the Leadership Legacy Project), being viewed as one of the world’s six founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and discipline.
He is the author, co-author or editor of forty-nine books and has published over 400 papers as articles or chapters in books. His books and articles were translated into thirty-one languages. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. In 2011, he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the IEDC-Bled School in recognition of his contributions to leadership development and research. In 2001, he received the Harry and Miriam Levinson Award (Organizational Consultation division) from the American Psychological Association for his contributions to the field of consultation. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), and in 2009 he became its Lifetime Distinguished Member. Kets de Vries is also the first non-American recipient of the International Leadership Award from the International Leadership Association (ILA) for “his contributions to the classroom and the boardroom”. In 2010, he received the Freud Memorial Award from the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute in acknowledgement of his exceptional work on the interface between psychoanalysis and organisations.
Kets de Vries is a consultant on organisational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading US, Canadian, European, African, and Asian companies. As an educator and consultant, he has worked in more than forty countries.
He was awarded an Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau by the Dutch government. 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 and Southern Africa, the Siberian taiga, the Ussuri Krai, Kamchatka, the Pamir and Altai Mountains, Arnhemland, or within the Arctic Circle.
Latest posts
Learning to Be Alone
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How Leaders Can Avoid the Hubris Trap
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
In Praise of Boredom
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How To Align What You Say With What You Do
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Escape the Grip of Greed and Envy
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How to Handle Foolish People
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Letting Go of the Urge to Rescue
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The Psychological Strategies of Influencers
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Transcending the Victim Mentality
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How Storytelling Makes You a Better Leader
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How to Break Free From Herd Mentality
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How to Change Someone’s Mind
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Why The World is Attracted to Neo-Authoritarian Leaders
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Ten Steps Towards a More Fulfilling Life
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Why Leaders Won’t Stop Waging Wars
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Finding Meaning in Life
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Burnout Won’t Prevent Itself
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Taming Your Inner Critic
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
In Praise of Dictators: A Satire
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Into the Mind of White-Collar Criminals
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Carpe Diem: Don’t Postpone Your Dreams
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Seven Ways to Put Procrastination Behind You
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Post-Pandemic, Firms Need Chief Social Connectivity Officers
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Covid Has Accentuated Our Every Vice
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Is Stargazing Your Preferred Management Style?
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
What Distinguishes the Super Rich From the Rest of Us
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Six Steps to Overcome Shame
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Two CEOs, No Drama: Ground Rules for Co-Leadership
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Our Addiction to Charismatic Leaders Needs to Stop
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
The Connections Between Love and Work
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Bluebeard Revisited: Knowledge Is Power
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How to Tame a Belligerent Colleague
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How Technology Threatens Mental Health – Especially if You’re Inauthentic
P. Korzynski, C. Rook, E. Florent Treacy, M. F. R. Kets de Vries
Recognising the Red Flags of Workplace Mental Health
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How I Taught the ‘Team from Hell’ to Trust Each Other
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
How Leaders Can Cultivate Patience in an Impatient World
Seven Ways Leaders Can Prepare for Post-Pandemic Times
What Will Life Be Like After the Pandemic?
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Coping With Life in Lockdown
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Why Leaders Should Embrace Their Dark Side
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Fighting the Loneliness Epidemic
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries