Coach and Couch ― The Psychology of Making Better Leaders

This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics. Drawing upon substantial research the book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders. This second edition includes new chapters on Executive Stress Coaching and Coaching Across the Gender Divide.

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change, at INSEAD, France, Singapore & Abu Dhabi and Founder of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center, one of the largest leadership development centers in the world. He is a world renowned psychologist, leadership and coaching expert and is chairman of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI), a boutique leadership development consulting firm. He is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading US, Canadian, European, African, and Asian companies and he has been rated among the world's top 50 leading management thinkers and most influential contributors to human resource management by the Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist. Kets de Vries is also the first non-American recipient of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to leadership research and development, being considered one of the world's founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and discipline.

Konstantin Korotov is an Assistant Professor at ESMT and also an Executive Coach and a Research Fellow with the INSEAD Global Leadership Center in Fontainebleau, France. In addition to his academic work, he has over 10 years of practical Leadership Development experience in the US, Russia, UK, France, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and Latvia. He has designed and delivered executive programmes for Ernst& Young, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Shell, ABN-Amro, Japan Tobacco International, Mars, Mittal Steel, Philip Morris, Frontstep CIS, British American Tobacco, Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Russian Presidential Programme for Management Cadre Development, Uralsib, Pernod-Ricard, and US Government's Edmund S. Muskie Program, as well as taught MBA-level, executive, and undergraduate courses at Stockholm School of Economics, INSEAD, and American Institute of Business and Economics (Moscow).

Elizabeth Florent-Treacy is Research Project Manager at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore. She has conducted research in the following areas: global leadership; global organizations; corporate culture in European and global organizations; American, French and Russian business practices; family business issues (governance, succession, strategy); entrepreneurial leadership; cross-cultural management; women and global leadership; cultural aspects of mergers and acquisitions; transformational leadership; expatriate executives and families; and the psychodynamics of leadership. She has written 18 case studies, five of which won top case writing awards (ECCH and EFMD). She has also taught seminars on case writing. She has co-authored or authored 14 articles and book chapters, and co-authored two books, on leadership and family business topics.

Caroline Rook is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management with focus on Leadership at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge (Anglia Ruskin University). She is also a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD. Caroline's research investigates leadership and well-being in organizations, executive stress, and issues of coaching and well-being. Caroline has taught several courses aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students covering a wide range of subjects related to leadership, organizational behavior and research methods. She has been involved in research related to the topic of leadership and well-being for some years. At INSEAD (France) Caroline worked as a Research Fellow in 2012/2013 on different projects - such as the development of a psychodynamically influenced stress evaluation protocol for executives. Furthermore, she analyzed 360°-Feedback data gained from two executive coaching programmes held at INSEAD.