World-class coaching and leadership development

We’re a strategic partner to world-leading organisations, designing bespoke programmes that improve leadership effectiveness, help teams align around a common strategy and drive performance.

Through coaching for individuals and teams, and customised leadership development programmes, we engage people in the process of development, change or transformation. We’re here to embed a culture of coaching and create better places to work.

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Transformative leadership development and coaching

Every organisation has a different starting point. From multi-year, large-scale culture transformation programmes to solutions for one-to-one executive coaching in challenging scenarios, we have the expertise, insight and scale to co-create a programme that works.

Pioneers

World-renowned home of the psychodynamic-systemic approach

Global network

Senior coaches and consultants across the globe; almost 20 languages spoken

Unrivalled coaches

80% of associates have experience at C-Suite/Board level with 15+ years executive coaching experience

Ethics focused

Coaches are actively engaged in supervision with a high regard for confidentiality and ethics

World-famous tools

Our proprietary diagnostic tools have helped develop 100,000s of leaders across the world

The Institute

Over 40 years of research, practice, and collaborative thought leadership in partnership with institutions including INSEAD, Harvard and MIT

Leadership coaching & Advisory

Transformative and results-oriented coaching for senior leaders

Our world-class coaches work with executives to develop cognitive agility, emotional capacity and leadership skills. They help leaders fine-tune their strategies, question their assumptions and align with their organisation’s goals, as well as deal with dilemmas and conflicts within their lives to arrive at meaningful work-life integration.

As pioneers of group coaching interventions, we also help leadership teams struggling with alignment or performance. Our experience shows that it’s difficult for leadership teams to stay aligned. It’s natural for silos to form when there are so many competing priorities. We support leadership teams to align around strategy, break down barriers and develop trust and cohesion.

Customised to your needs

Our coaching services can be offered as a standalone intervention or as part of a comprehensive transformation programme for your organisation. All organisations and the challenges they’re facing are different. Our wide-ranging coaching and advisory capabilities enable us to create bespoke solutions for each of our clients.

Through all of our engagements, we plant the seeds to embed a coaching culture, aiming to leave each organisation in a better place.

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Multiple one to one engagements

With our global pool of highly experienced coaches, we can scale up quickly and effectively when it’s required. When this happens, we’re able to offer even more services:

Dedicated coaching pool

  • KDVI coaching director appointed to oversee engagements and manage client relationship
  • Pool of coaches pre-approved and briefed

Coaching insights

  • High-level thematic analysis of perceptions of the organisation
  • Insights cover culture, leadership, group dynamics

Progress reports

  • Quarterly or bi-annual reports

  • Overview of all active, prospective and completed coaching engagements

360º Feedback Data Analysis

  • Analysis of data collected in the form of 360º feedback from multiple coaching engagements

  • Can surface patterns, recurring systemic themes and trigger insights

If you’d like to learn more about our Leadership Coaching in organisations across the globe, get in touch.

Board & team development

Programmes focused on developing trust, mutual respect and candor; for teams that want to create better results

We believe that successful organisations are the product of distributive, collective and complementary leadership teams.

Our board and team development programmes focus on developing relationships of trust, mutual respect and candor among team members so that they can work together effectively and efficiently to generate better results.

Team coaching sits at the heart of our programmes, allowing senior teams to:

  • Discuss key strategic challenges and team objectives
  • Understand each member’s leadership style
  • Exchange information and feedback freely
  • Expose and address ‘un-discussable’ issues
  • Resolve conflict constructively

Our interventions are built around four core strands:

Purpose & Direction

Purpose & Direction

Working towards alignment and clarity

Growth & Resilience

Developing support and accountability; encouraging development

Team Cohesion

Creating psychological safety for courageous conversations

Team Functioning

Understanding team dynamics, leveraging diversity of thought

If you’d like to learn more about our work with Boards or Teams in organisations across the globe, get in touch.

Leadership & culture transformation

Custom programmes which develop the core competencies for building sustainable leadership performance and culture

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We develop leaders to become reflective, empowered, and self-renewing. These behaviours enable the orientation to change to become a core capability and are the foundation for culture transformation.

Our bespoke programmes establish the competencies required for sustainable leadership performance, as we partner with leaders to develop self-awareness and awareness of others, create a vision for the future, and enable them to be role models for those around them. Our programmes address:

If you’d like to learn more about our work in Leadership and Culture Transformation in organisations across the globe, get in touch.

Margot Schumacher:

Senior Associate at KDVI, Adjunct Professor of Leadership Development at TIAS Business School, and executive coach at INSEAD. Margot has coached senior leaders across global organisations following senior roles at Unilever and Kraft Heinz. Since 2010, she has advised multinationals on leadership and organisational development, with a focus on enhancing effectiveness at the top team and board levels. She also serves on the Supervisory Board of Thales Netherlands. Her global perspective is shaped by living and working in Shanghai, Pittsburgh, and London before returning to the Netherlands

Oriane Kets de Vries:

Oriane Kets de Vries is CEO and owner of the Kets de Vries Institute. She leads a global team of coaches, consultants and educators dedicated to developing reflective, emotionally intelligent leaders and cultivating workplaces where people can thrive. In her faculty role, she draws on extensive experience designing and directing leadership programmes for senior executives, contributing her expertise in psychodynamic coaching, organisational culture, and transformational leadership development.

Oriane has served as consultant, coach, and programme director for clients including Pictet, Deutsche Bank, Merck, UBS, Mishcon de Reya, and Engie, and she has taught on open-enrolment programmes with leading institutions such as Cambridge Judge Business School, Oxford Saïd, INSEAD, ESCP, ESMT and CEDEP. Her interests centre on the human side of leadership, particularly identity, creativity, entrepreneurship and gender dynamics. She holds an MBA and Executive MA in Coaching and Consulting for Change from INSEAD, has trained at the Harvard Kennedy School, and brings more than a decade of professional experience in creative and entrepreneurial industries into her work with leaders.

Manfred Kets de Vries:

Manfred Kets de Vries is a pioneering authority in leadership development, coaching, and organisational change. He is a founder and director of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI) and served as Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change at INSEAD. With academic credentials in economics (University of Amsterdam), management (MBA and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (trained in Canada), he brings a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective to leadership. His work bridges management theory and clinical insight, establishing him as a global thought leader in executive coaching and transformation. At INSEAD, he founded the Global Leadership Centre and led the flagship programme The Challenge of Leadership for 31 years. He also served as scientific director of Coaching and Consulting for Change, an 18-month Executive Master’s programme that has shaped over 3,000 senior leaders and executive coaches worldwide. He has advised and coached senior executives at global firms including Goldman Sachs, BP, Shell, Unilever, McKinsey, and Volvo. A prolific author of over 60 books and 400 articles, his work appears regularly in The Financial Times, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review. Recognised by Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Financial Times as one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers, he is widely regarded for advancing more human-centred approaches to leadership.

Yulia Chupina:

Senior Adviser (Luminary) at Accenture and executive coach with over 12 years of board experience. Formerly a banker and McKinsey consultant, Yulia has led banking transformations in digital, agile, organisational change, and talent development. Her coaching spans the finance, tech, and consumer goods sectors, blending technological insight with emotional intelligence to guide leaders through transformation. Recently, she advised BBVA on agile methodologies and senior talent development. Influenced by thought leaders such as Manfred Kets de Vries and Gabor Maté, Yulia brings an analytical, reflective approach to leadership. She has lived and worked across the UK, Spain, the US, and Russia.

Elizabeth Florent:

Elizabeth has worked closely with Manfred Kets de Vries for many years and has served as a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at INSEAD. Her extensive background in leadership development spans organisational consulting, executive coaching, and academic research. She holds advanced degrees in Organisational Development and Clinical Organisational Psychology and is a certified Coaching Supervisor through the Tavistock Institute. Her doctoral research explored experiential domains in executive education, and she has authored or co-authored numerous academic articles, case studies, and books on leadership and organisational dynamics. Elizabeth led the development teams behind KDVI’s diagnostic instruments, including the GELM, OCA™, and ITI. Drawing on her diverse training and global experience, she brings deep cross-cultural insight to her work with leaders worldwide. Originally from California, Elizabeth has made France her home for over 30 years.