INSEAD has a larger number of faculty working in the field of leadership education and training than almost any other top business school. Here are just a few highlights of the research that underpins our Executive Education programmes.
Clinical approach to leadership. Using a clinically oriented, psychodynamic paradigm, Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues in the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre research the irrational aspects of leadership training and development that are all too often overlooked. Their achievements include: numerous publications (including Kets de Vries’s book, Sex, Money, Happiness and Death); several 360-degree feedback instruments; a unique methodology for group coaching; and training hundreds of leadership coaches, now practising throughout the world.
Global ranking of CEOs. In 2010, INSEAD professors, Herminia Ibarra, Morten Hansen and Urs Peyer created the first ever international ranking of CEOs based on long-term performance – a list that contained many surprises. They are now pursuing more detailed research into some of the specific shared characteristics of the leaders at the top of their ranking.
Leadership and diversity. Here at this most international of the schools, we recognise that leadership varies according to national and cultural differences. We are also particularly interested in the topic of women and leadership. Professor Herminia Ibarra recently co-authored a World Economic Forum report on the ‘Corporate Gender Gap’. In addition, she is the director of an INSEAD research fund endowed by Unilever and dedicated to broader issues of leadership and diversity.
Leadership of teams. Closely related to the question of diverse leadership is the question of how best to lead diverse groups – and, increasingly, diverse groups that are dispersed across borders and time zones. Professors working in this area include Erin Meyer (leading across cultures); Quy Huy (emotional intelligence); and Ludo Van der Heyden (fair process). Also of note is a book by Professor Henrik Bresman, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed.
Identity and leadership. This is a relatively new approach to leadership that explores changes in leaders’ concepts of their own identities over time, as well as their capacities to convey clear and compelling identities to others. Examples of work in this field are Gianpiero Petriglieri’s articles about business schools as privileged spaces in which to explore identity and Linda Brimm’s book, Global Cosmopolitans.
Leadership and change. Recent and ongoing projects in this area include: Hal Gregersen and Stewart Black’s book about organisational change, It Starts With One; and Charles Galunic’s work on how leaders shape changes in organisational culture. In addition, Vibha Gaba investigates a wide range of questions relating to organisations’ ability to adapt, change and innovate.
As a result of our research, we are able to offer a particularly wide range of leadership programmes at all levels:
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