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Burnout is not just exhaustion. It is exhaustion combined with a sense of betrayal. That is the distinction at the heart of a new article by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries, written through the lens of a client he calls Johan, a man who arrived at his office not in crisis exactly, but with the flat politeness of someone returning a piece of equipment that no longer worked. What follows is one of the more honest accounts of burnout you are likely to read. Not the laminated-placard version, full of warning signs and wellness tips. But the clinical, human, sometimes uncomfortable reality of what happens when someone has given everything to a role, a relationship, or an institution, and finally, quietly, stopped. Manfred writes about the superego as internal tyrant. About anger that has nowhere to go but inward. About the unnamed grief of discovering that the promised reward for decades of sacrifice was simply the opportunity to sacrifice more efficiently next quarter. And about what recovery actually looks like, which turns out to be considerably stranger, slower, and more honest than most of us are told. Worth reading if you work with leaders, coach them, or are one. 👉 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/ditnQr8x #leadership #executivecoaching #burnout #mentalhealth #psychodynamics #organisationaldevelopment Manfred Kets de Vries, Oriane Kets de Vries, Scott L. Claire Finch

Thank you so much for this wonderful endorsement, it truly means a lot! 🙏 For anyone who'd like to explore the Group & Team Coaching Practicum further, here is the link to the brochure. Please do reach out if you have any questions. I'm happy to share more about the programme and what makes it so valuable. https://lnkd.in/dakmfM4w

The higher you rise in an organisation, the more your effectiveness depends on people you do not directly control. Yet most leadership development still focuses on the individual: your skills, your presence, your decisions. What often gets less attention is the relational work; building trust across boundaries, creating genuine alignment, influencing without relying on authority. On Friday 12 June, Christopher Bockmann leads a two-and-a-half-hour session on Collaborative Leadership, exploring how to build shared purpose across complex stakeholder environments, develop a more empowering approach to influence, and strengthen the cross-boundary collaboration that most organisations urgently need more of. The session combines practical frameworks, reflection, and facilitated group discussion. It can be attended as a standalone or as part of the Leadership Labs series. Friday 12 June, 15:00-17:30 BST Virtual | £195 + VAT Open to organisational leaders #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #collaboration #executiveeducation #organisationaldevelopment Oriane Kets de Vries Scott L. Claire Finch

Most leaders know how to direct. Fewer know how to bring people genuinely with them.   Building trust, alignment, and shared purpose across complex stakeholder environments is one of the harder things leadership asks of us and one of the least talked about.   Our next Leadership Lab, led by Christopher Bockmann, focuses on exactly this. The session explores different forms of influence, the conditions that make cross-boundary collaboration work, and how to develop a more relational and empowering approach to leadership.   Leadership Labs are designed to be practical and reflective in equal measure. Each session introduces key frameworks, creates space for honest discussion in small groups, and draws on the real-world experience of KDVI faculty who have taught at institutions including INSEAD, Henley, Harvard, and MIT.   Sessions can be attended individually or as part of a series.   Collaborative Leadership Friday 12 June, 15:00–17:30 BST 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eFu3qMsy   #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #executiveeducation #collaboration #organisationaldevelopment Oriane Kets de Vries Scott L. Claire Finch Manfred Kets de Vries

We are pleased to invite you to the next GELM® Foundations Training, a virtual programme designed for leadership development professionals, executive coaches and consultants. Dates (participants must attend both sessions): • Tuesday 16 June | 12:00–13:30 (UK) • Tuesday 23 June | 12:00–14:00 (UK) ICF Accreditation: 6 CCE credits (RD: 2 hrs | CC: 4 hrs) Delivered by KDVI Associate Alicia Cheak, this programme introduces the Global Executive Leadership Mirror (GELM) - a 360° leadership development tool grounded in extensive research and practical application. During the training, you will: • Understand the theoretical foundations of the GELM and how to administer the 360 • Learn how to read and interpret GELM reports • Connect feedback to reflection, goal setting and action planning • Apply KDVI’s psychodynamic framework to support deeper developmental conversations • Practise drawing out actionable insights to support leadership effectiveness The course includes: ✔ GELM Foundations starter kit (slides, reading materials, certificate and digital badge) ✔ Practical experience working with GELM reports The GELM has been developed through decades of research into the behaviour patterns of effective global leaders and is benchmarked against senior executives from leading international organisations. Course fee: £125 excl. VAT* (The cost can be redeemed against your first GELM order) If you are unable to attend these dates, we run this programme regularly. Follow us or get in touch to be notified of future cohorts. *VAT and other applicable taxes will be applied based on your country or region of residence. #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveCoaching #GELM #ICF #OrganisationalDevelopment Oriane Kets de Vries Scott L.

Disruption is no longer an occasional interruption. It is the operating environment. Geopolitical shifts, economic volatility, technological change: the question is no longer how to manage through a crisis, but how to lead when instability is the permanent condition. And for all the guidance available on strategy and operational agility, the psychological dimensions of leadership under pressure remain remarkably underplayed. In the latest piece from our newsletter, KDVI CEO Oriane Kets de Vries draws on her own experience leading through the early days of COVID, alongside research from David Rock, William Bridges, and Manfred Kets de Vries, to explore what actually happens beneath the surface when organisations are under sustained pressure. The article is honest about something leaders rarely name: that unacknowledged anxiety doesn't disappear, it displaces. It shows up as overactivity, avoidance, conflict, or rigid control. And that much of what gets labelled as resistance to change is, more often than not, anxiety with nowhere to go. It also offers something practical: a framework for leading yourself, attending to others, and stabilising the business when everything feels like it's moving at once. Worth a read if you lead people through uncertain times (which, let's be honest, is all of us). 👉 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/ethsffxq #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #organisationaldevelopment #executivecoaching #psychodynamics Oriane Kets de Vries

Coaching individuals is one thing, guiding a group through transformation is another. Teams are shaped by unspoken tensions, unconscious behaviours, and deep-rooted dynamics that can either unlock potential or create barriers. Learning how to work with these forces is what sets great coaches apart. Join us today at 12:00 BST for our free interactive webinar: Mastering Group Coaching Using A Psychodynamic Approach In this session, we’ll explore how KDVI’s Group & Team Coaching Practicum helps coaches and HR professionals develop the confidence and capability to create meaningful, lasting change in groups and teams. If you’re looking to deepen your impact as a coach or expand into group and team coaching, we’d love you to join us. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e-imBdhC #GroupCoaching #TeamCoaching #PsychodynamicCoaching #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveCoaching #HR #CoachingDevelopment #OrganisationalDevelopment

Coach! Listen! Facilitate! This was what I noticed early on. Then there were many other takeaways during the short, intimate programme with eleven other fellow participants, led by our family business master advisor Christine Blondel @ KDVI With the help of several frameworks, and the strong awareness that each family case is unique in its nature, history, family members dynamics, and each comes with its own surprises, we learn to allow structure AND flexibility. We learn to work also with a variety of other methods, that our work could be supported by a team of fellow advisors, and/or supervised by a very experienced advisor. Those with relatively more experience also came to up their game. Everyone has a different background, this is such a diverse blend of advisor styles, strengths and insights, so conducive and inspiring. I feel very grateful and lucky to have met fellow advisors here, everyone being so open and willing to share and learn together. THANK YOU ALL! I feel that you are the ones I could call on when I next need my own Advisory Team 🤓🙌😉   Alessandro D'Orlando Alev Yakal Sahlan Juliet Agnew Kent Choi Maria Riolo Michele Luzi Natalia Garavito Cacciari Patrizia De Marchi Raphaëlle Mattart, Ph.D. Ulf Leichsenring Veronika #FamilyBusinessAdvisor #KDVI #INSEAD #FamilyBusiness #FamilyEnterprise #SuccessionPlanning #FamilyCharter #ThreeCircleModel #GenerationalTransition #FamilyGovernance #LeadershipDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment

I have just completed the Family Business Advisor Masterclass with KDVI, founded by Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries and delivered by Prof. Christine Blondel and Laetitia Hopman-Fuller. For nearly twenty years I have worked with family businesses as a Gestalt psychotherapist and organisational consultant. I have sat with siblings who could not agree on a strategy. With founders who could not let go. With next-generation leaders who felt they had to earn a seat that was already theirs by birth — but not yet by trust. My clinical training taught me to read the relational patterns beneath the surface. What I lacked was a structured advisory framework to translate that reading into governance outcomes. This Masterclass gave me exactly that. Three things will stay with me. First, the Three-Circle Model — not as a diagram on a slide, but as an operational tool. Every family business conflict lives at the intersection of family, ownership, and business. Knowing which circle you are operating in at any given moment changes the intervention entirely. Second, the Family Charter — not as a document, but as a process. The conversations a family has while building their charter are where alignment becomes visible. Or where its absence becomes impossible to ignore. Third, something harder to name: the discipline of staying with the complexity of a family system without rushing to simplify it. Christine modelled this throughout the programme — holding space for ambiguity without losing rigour. It confirmed something I had intuited in my own practice: that the advisor's most important skill is not knowing the answer, but knowing which question the family is not yet asking. I return to my work with a sharper lens, a clearer methodology, and a network of fellow practitioners from whom I have learned as much as from the formal content. For those who work with family enterprises: this programme is exceptional. Not because it gives you a toolkit — but because it changes how you see the system. Thank you Christine Blondel, L. Hopman-Fuller, Gayna Wallis, and KDVI for the rigour, the generosity, and the intellectual honesty. #FamilyBusinessAdvisor #KDVI #INSEAD #RelationalGovernance #FamilyBusiness #FamilyEnterprise #SuccessionPlanning #ThreeCircleModel #FamilyCharter #GovernanceRelazionale #FamilyGovernance #LeadershipDevelopment #GestaltTherapy #EMDR #ProcessConsultation

In today’s world, disruption isn’t an occasional challenge - it’s the baseline. From geopolitical shifts to technological acceleration, leaders are navigating what can only be described as permanent disruption. And the reality is: the old leadership playbooks no longer apply. So what does effective leadership look like now? In this month's newsletter we explore what it really takes to lead through ongoing uncertainty - and how leaders can build the mindset and capabilities needed to thrive, not just survive. Sign up to our newsletter to get the full article straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/dAa6UdgV