We are proud to announce the collaboration of ORGDYNE Training & Consulting, LLC with the newly formed Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI) in UK. In addition to offering the institute, state-of-the art technology and web-enabled solutions for the delivery of “live” courses and seminars, we will also be marketing many of the institute's proprietary consulting deliverables in emerging global markets such as India and the Middle East. Please register here for more information and a schedule of upcoming events and courses.

The Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI) counsels individual CEOs and top executive teams, using a psychodynamic approach to leadership coaching. Founded by Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's foremost thinkers on leadership, KDVI shares its expertise through a range of tailor-made leadership coaching, consulting, and organizational change services delivered by a global network of leadership coaches and consultants. We work with national, international, and global organizations all over the world. Our clients include leaders in banking, telecommunications, healthcare, media, transportation, manufacturing, and strategic consulting.

Our mission is to help create results driven, sustainable organizations by putting people first.

Manfred Kets de Vries

MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics (Econ. Drs., University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, MBA, and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), Kets de Vries scrutinizes the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry.

His specific areas of interest are leadership, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, team building, coaching, and the dynamics of corporate transformation and change.

A clinical professor of leadership development, he holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France & Singapore. He is also the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center. In addition, he is program director of INSEAD's top management seminar, "The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence,” “Coaching and Consulting for Change, and “Leadership for Creativity” (and has five times received INSEAD's distinguished teacher award). He has also held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business
School, and he has lectured at management institutions around the world.

The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries one of world's leading leadership thinkers. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world's top fifty leading management thinkers and among the most influential contributors to human resource management.

Kets de Vries is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including The Neurotic Organization, Leaders, Fools and Impostors, Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane, The Leadership Mystique and The Happiness Equation and Are Leaders Made or Are They Born? The Case of Alexander the Great, The New Russian Business Elite, Leadership by Terror, The Global Executive Leadership Inventory, The Leader on the Couch, Coach and Couch, The Family Business on the Couch,
Reflections on Leadership and Character, and Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: Musings from the Underground. Three new books are in preparation

Elisabet Engellau

ELISABET ENGELLAU is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management at INSEAD (Fontainebleau/Singapore/Abu Dhabi). As Program Director at INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, she designs, teaches, and coaches in executive programs, open enrollment, as well as company specific programs, focusing on leadership, high performance teams and personal and professional development. She has been an affiliate professor at McGill University, Faculty of Management, a teaching fellow at Harvard University, and Concordia University, Montreal as well as visiting faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership and Stockholm School of Economics. She has also produced and directed a number of video films for management education and has recently been involved in developing feedback instruments. She 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).

Ms Engellau also works as an independent consultant, specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, cross-cultural management and team building. As founding partner of the Kets de Vries Institute, London, UK (an organizational consulting company with a global network of leadership coaches and consultants) her professional activities are
focused on the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. In her work with individuals and teams in organizations around the world (ABN-AMRO, Bain, CIBA, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HypoVereinsbank, Lundbeck, McKinsey, NAB, Nokia, SAB Miller, Standard Bank of South Africa, Vodafone, Unilever and The Cabinet Office, UK) she combines her long-term interest in creativity with a clinical approach to human resource management.

Her previous professional experience includes production and management in a variety of creative fields in an international context. She has held management positions at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, and Malm Municipal Theatre.

She has pursued academic studies at Uppsala University (MA in Art History, Literature and Anthropology), at Harvard University (graduate work in Psychology and Social Studies) and at McGill University (PhD studies in Communications and Management) 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 Institut de Psychoanalyse & Management (IPM).

Ms Engellau has a great interest in the arts as well as the outdoors (she has been a line record holder of the hucho taimen in Outer Mongolia).

Graham Ward

Graham Ward, Director of the Kets de Vries Institute and a Programme Director at INSEAD Business School's Global Leadership Centre, specialises in coaching executives at board level and managing corporate change programmes in London's financial centre. He spent 22 years in finance, 16 of which working for Goldman Sachs, the world's premier investment bank, where for seven years he co-led the European Equity business. Prior to this he worked in commodities as a pit trader and on the floor of the London Stock Exchange. He is currently a board member of Hampstead Capital Global Hedge Fund, listed on the Irish Stock Exchange.

In 2000, Graham spearheaded an initiative to introduce a Leadership Development office at Goldman. This effort culminated in a global undertaking which broadened to include coaching, diversity, mentoring, recruitment and succession planning to senior management level.

Graham received his MSc and Diploma from HEC/INSEAD(2002) in Clinical Organisational Psychology. In 1994 he received a Diploma of Investment Management from London Business School.

Graham was a speaker at the 2007 EMCC annual conference on the subject of Group Leadership Coaching and in 2001 on the subject of Mentoring for Change. He is an affiliate member of the APA (American Psychological Association), and a member of the ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations).

Graham has undertaken individual training at the Tavistock Centre in London from a specialist in Group Dynamics. He works regularly at INSEAD on a number of executive programmes including the Management Acceleration Programme (MAP), Advanced Management Programme (AMP), and Executive MBA (EMBA). He is the Programme Director for the International Executive Programme (IEP) but has worked on many company specific programmes including Microsoft, Pfizer, Daimler Chrysler, TNK/BP, HSBC, Ernst and Young and SAP. He has also worked as visiting faculty at ESMT (European School of Management and Technology) in Berlin and Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Privately he has worked with McKinsey, Axa, HSBC, Tesco, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Bank, E.On, Mars and BP among others. He is retained by Citigroup as one of their European leadership coaches.

A doctoral student of leadership in Amsterdam, Holland, he is co- author of the book Coach and Couch, the Psychology of Making Better Leaders published in 2007. He authored the academic paper Towards Executive Change, published by Oxford Brookes University in 2008 and The Use of Transitional Space published in the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching. (2009)

Graham lives on the Stockholm Archipelago with his wife and four children.

Website: www.kdvi.com