Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
| Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries | |
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| Born | The Netherlands |
| Residence | Fontainebleau, France |
| Nationality |
 Dutch |
| Education |
University of Amsterdam Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer |
INSEAD ESMT |
| Home town | Fontainebleau |
| Website | www |
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Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau (Netherlands)
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Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries is a Dutch psychologist, Professor of leadership development and organizational change at INSEAD, and consultant. He is best known for bringing a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. In 2009, he was rated amongst the Top 50 Thinkers in Management.
Kets de Vries received a master's degree in Economics in 1966) from the University of Amsterdam; an International Teachers Program certificate in 1967, his M.B.A. in 1968, and his D.B.A. in 1970 from Harvard Business School. He also received training from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, where he is member since 1982. He is also a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a corresponding member of Paris Psychoanalytical Society.
Kets de Vries had held professorships at McGill University, the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal, and 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.
In 2005, as the first non-American, he has received the International Leadership Award for "his contributions to the classroom and the board room". In 2008, he has also been given the Lifetime Achievement Award (the Leadership Legacy Project of the International Leadership Association), being viewed as one of the world’s six founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and discipline. In 2009, he was rated amongst the Top 50 Thinkers in Management. In October 2011 Kets de Vries was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title from IEDC Bled School of Management for his "outstanding contribution to creation and integration of knowledge and leadership development for a better world". In October 2012 Kets de Vries received an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) at IBS-Moscow.
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