Mindful Leadership Coaching / INSEAD Business Press (PDF)

learning and development professionals. An executive will find cues for exploring her or his inner theater. A coach will be challenged to evaluate her or his practice. An HR or learning and development professional will be better prepared for making educated choices about facilitating coaching interventions and managing the company's pool of coaches. Manfred Kets de Vries has once again given all of us an opportunity to think and talk about what really matters for human beings in modern organizations.'

-Professor Konstantin Korotov, PhD. Director of the Center for Leadership Development Research, ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Berlin

"There are hundreds of books on coaching in general, fewer books specifically on leadership coaching and merely a handful on leadership coaching using the psychodynamic approach. Kets de Vries in his latest book skillfully uses the interplay of conflicting emotional forces to provide an excellent guide to leadership coaching which can be considered as groundbreaking."

-Vaseehar Hassan PhD, Advisor and Board Member, Guidance Investments, Malaysia

"In our fast-paced world executives are struggling with what it means to be a leader and their coaches are equally puzzled with understanding how to help their clients develop as leadership talents. Manfred Kets de Vries explores these two interdependent topics to help both fields develop new perspectives. Mindful Leadership Coaching meets the needs of coaches in recognising the psychological challenges facing business leaders around the world. Manfred's advice on dealing with psychopathic leaders should be in every career handbook because it is critically valuable to anyone in or aspiring to the executive suite. Combining his long experience in coaching SOB executives with his knowledge of psychology he offers powerful insights that could literally save people's careers and more importantly their self-esteem."

-Professor Randel S. Carlock, Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise

"So far, apart from Manfred Kets de Vries, no one has described so lucidly emotionally and profoundly the inner lives of leaders and the paths of their development. This book will become absolutely indispensable for both coaches and executives. It invites us into the usually inaccessible atelier/workshop of leadership coaching where paramount changes take place. Case studies abound in this book and they allow the reader to not only live through the experience of the joint work of a coach and coachee, but they also allow one to change oneself. The psychodynamic approach to achieving real personal and organizational changes is portrayed in great detail and it opens for us a whole Universe of inexhaustible opportunities and resources aimed at professional growth."

-Andrey Vladimirovich Rossokhin, Doctor of Psychology, Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Business Consulting at National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE)