• ESMT presented a symposium “Careers, Leadership Development, and Executive Coaching: Making Connections and Building Bridges” at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2010. The speakers included: Manfred Kets de Vries (ESMT and INSEAD), Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (INSEAD), Konstantin Korotov (ESMT), Laura Guillen (ESMT), Susan A. David (Harvard), and Carol Kauffman (Harvard).
• Manfred Kets de Vries (ESMT and INSEAD) and Konstantin Korotov organized a research Caucus at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada with the theme “Daring to Coach Leaders, Caring for People and Organizations: Issues in Research on Coaching.”
• Korotov, K., and Kets de Vries, M. (2009). The Challenges of Accelerated Leadership Development. Paper Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 7–11, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Korotov, K., and Khapova, S. (2009). Intelligent Career Divestments. Paper Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 7–11, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Korotov, K. (2009). Liminality and Executive Coaching: A Career Entrepreneurship Perspective. Paper Presented at the 25th EGOS Colloquium, July 2–4, in Barcelona, Spain.

• Please visit this website to the current and past (archived) events.

ESMT Annual Forum 2011 "Global race for competitive edge"

July 6–7, 2011 at ESMT in Berlin.

CLDR members were once again actively participating in the forum. Further information will be forthcoming.

ESMT Annual Forum 2010 "People, planet, profit: Creating a sustainable future"

June 16–17, 2010 at ESMT Campus, Berlin, Germany

ESMT Professors Konstantin Korotov and Zhike Lei hosted a panel discussion on leadership including the following speakers:

Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries (Distinguished Professor ESMT, Director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Center),
Prof. Charles O'Reilly (Stanford Uinversity),
Prof. Cathy Tinsley (Georgetown University),
Prof. Mary Uhl-Bien (University of Nebraska - Lincoln),
and Prof. Jonathan Gosling (Center for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter).
ESMT Annual Forum Program Manager is Kate McCourt.

ESMT Annual Forum 2009 "Navigating in Turbulent Times Panel"

“In times of crises, leaders are in the spotlight. They may be seen as villains to be held responsible for the misfortunes of those around them, they may be seen as saviors who should put companies and people’s lives back on track, and they may be seen as both. This panel discusses the role of leaders and leadership when things are difficult and uncertain, and when being in a leadership role is particularly challenging.” Konstantin Korotov, Associate Professor, ESMT.

As part of the ESMT Annual Forum on July 1-2, 2009, a panel moderated by ESMT’s Professor Konstantin Korotov engaged in a discussion of the role business leaders play in overcoming the current economic crisis and preventing future ones. The distinguished group of panelists consisted of Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries (ESMT and INSEAD), Prof. Charles O’Reilly (Stanford), Prof. Fred Luthans (U of Nebraska Lincoln), and Georg Graf Valdersee, Managing Partner EMEIA GSA, Ernst & Young.

Forum website

December 13-14, 2010 on ESMT Campus in Berlin.

The Center for Leadership Development Research at ESMT European School of Management and Technology and the Institute of Coaching at Harvard University conduct this two day event, which will bring together leading academics, executive coaches, and HR practitioners interested in building bridges between the rapidly growing industry of executive coaching and the scientific investigation of coaching principles, processes, and results. The Third International Coaching Research Forum serves as a research incubator for defining the future intellectual agenda for coaching thinkers, researchers, practitioners, and users.

Conference website

October 27–30, 2010 in Boston, MA, USA at the Marriot Copley Place in Downtown Boston

Konstantin Korotov will be a commentator at the panel discussion. In this panel discussion, they seek to collapse the dichotomy inherent in the vision of work on one side of the scale and life on the other, replacing it with a model of fully, authentically living the work. Panelists speak to their own deep personal insights, ongoing struggles toward change, pure moments of grace – while moving toward a cohesion where all is fodder for learning, engagement, teaching, becoming.

• “Teaching About Careers to Executives” a professional development workshop organized by Konstantin Korotov and ESMT’s visiting professor Svetlana Khapova (VU Amsterdam) at the Academy of Management 2010 Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada. Other presenters included: Manfred Kets de Vries (ESMT and INSEAD), Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (INSEAD), Andreas Bernhardt (ESMT), Yoav Vardi (Tel Aviv University), Sherry E. Sullivan (Bowling Green State University), Polly Parker (University of Queensland), Maury Peiperl (IMD).
• Becoming a Global Scholar: Presentation at the New Doctoral Students Consortium at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago. August 8, 2009.
• Career Workouts for Executives: Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago. August 7, 2009.
    
  This Professional Development Workshop introduced to academic colleagues who teach careers and leadership topics and/or who offer career or leadership coaching to executives a kaleidoscope of effective career-coaching and reflection tools that can be easily adapted for work with executive education participants, MBA or EMBA students, or coaching clients. Among other tools, Individual Career Workout for Executives, an ESMT exercise (available via ECCH), was presented.
    
  The event was organized in collaboration with the INSEAD Global Leadership Center and VU University of Amsterdam. Professional Development Workshop Presenters:

• Konstantin Korotov (ESMT)
• Andreas Bernhardt (ESMT CS)
• Laura Guillen Ramo (INSEAD)
• Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (INSEAD)
• Chen Fliesher (VU U Amsterdam)