Mindful Leadership Coaching ─ Journeys into the Interior

An inclusive, networking-oriented culture is key to an organization's success. Effective leaders must understand the demands of a diverse workforce, and appreciate the effect this has on wider organizational dynamics, such as strategy, productivity, market penetration, customer service, recruitment costs, and turnover.

World-renowned coaching expert and bestselling author Manfred Kets de Vries draws on his extensive experience in group leadership coaching to provide an in-depth look at the coaching process, considering the diversity of both individual and organizational learning through the lens of psychodynamic mindfulness.

Kets de Vries advises on how the best leadership coaches help their executive clients create the tipping points that lead to significant personal and professional change and explains the innovative tools he has devised to support this intervention technique. Including case examples and questionnaires that facilitate a deep understanding of the psychodynamics of personal and organizational change, this book will help coaches and executives transform attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development, 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 organizational 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.