ESMT Coaching Colloquia
Each year the CLDR organizes an advanced professional development and research event for the top global leadership coaches, academics, and HR professionals - the ESMT Coaching Colloquium. Participation in the colloquium is based on submission of competitive papers and case-studies in which experienced coaches and HR professionals discuss difficult or unusual coaching situations and share their ways of handling those. Peer consultations allow the coaches to look at alternative ways of handling their difficult cases and provide a fruitful platform for discussion, learning, and identification of research issues. The event is also one of the rare opportunities for advanced professionals and thinkers to find a supportive, but challenging, environment for stretching and expanding current understanding of coaching practice and research.
5th ESMT/KDVI Coaching Colloquium
Leader resilience: Getting through tough moments
December 13–14, 2013
at ESMT Campus, Berlin
The Center for Leadership Development Research at the ESMT – European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany and the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI) run the 5th ESMT/KDVI Coaching Colloquium “Leader Resilience: Getting through Tough Moments”. The Colloquium continues to serve as an opportunity for academics, practicing leadership coaches, Human Resources and Learning and Development professionals, and management consultants to enhance their knowledge, skills, and networks through intensive collaboration and peer-consultation on challenging or unusual cases in the practice of leadership coaching.
During the Colloquium we will be working with real cases presented by real coaches, faculty, and learning and development managers and commented upon by fellow professionals. We will continue on our previous experience of creating a real coaching development laboratory with an opportunity to learn and to contribute to the learning of others.
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2012: 4th ESMT/KDVI Coaching Colloquium
Different! Coaching across dissimilarities
Different! Coaching across dissimilarities
November 30–December 1, 2012
ESMT Campus, Berlin
The Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR) at the ESMT European School of Management and Technology and the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI) ran the 4th ESMT/KDVI Coaching Colloquium “Different! Coaching across Dissimilarities.” The colloquium continues to serve as a renowned opportunity for academics, practicing leadership coaches, human resources and learning and development professionals, and management consultants to enhance their knowledge, skills, and networks through intensive collaboration and peer-consultation on challenging or unusual cases in the practice of leadership coaching.
2011: 3rd ESMT Coaching Colloquium
Sex, money, happiness, and death: Reflections in leadership coaching
Sex, money, happiness, and death: Reflections in leadership coaching
December 16 & 17, 2011
ESMT Campus, Berlin, Germany
The Center for Leadership Development Research at the ESMT European School of Management and Technology and the Kets de Vries Institute run the 3rd ESMT/KDVI Coaching Colloquium “Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: Reflections in Leadership Coaching.” The colloquium continues to serve as an opportunity for academics, practicing leadership coaches, Human Resources and Learning and Development professionals, and management consultants to enhance their knowledge, skills, and networks through intensive collaboration and peer-consultation on challenging or unusual cases in the practice of leadership coaching.
2010: 2nd ESMT Coaching Colloquium
The courage to coach: When the coach is on the line
The courage to coach: When the coach is on the line
December 15 & 16, 2010
ESMT Campus, Berlin, Germany
The Center for Leadership Development Research at the ESMT European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany runs the 2nd ESMT Coaching Colloquium “The Courage to Coach: When the Coach is on the Line.” This event builds on the success of the 1st ESMT Coaching Colloquium held in December 2009. The 2010 Colloquium will serve as a further opportunity for academics, practicing leadership coaches, Human Resources and Learning and Development professionals, and management consultants to enhance their knowledge, skills, and networks through a day of intensive collaboration and peer-consultation on difficult cases in the practice of leadership coaching. We will be working with real cases presented by real coaches, faculty, and learning and development managers and commented upon by fellow professionals. We will create a coaching laboratory with an opportunity to learn and to contribute to the learning of others. A series of panel discussions, small group peer consultations sessions, fish-bowl experiences and interactive exercises involving science and art will enrich the participant’s conceptual understanding of coaching and their practical tool set collection. Participants’ contributions may be considered for inclusion in subsequent publications.
NEW for 2010: A fishbowl coach supervision session; A session on psychodynamic concepts in coaching.
To take part in the Colloquium, participants will be expected to submit a short paper describing a difficult leadership coaching case from their practice and a separate description of their way of handling that particular situation. All submissions will be reviewed by the Convenors for suitability for the Colloquium. Authors of accepted papers will be able to register for the Colloquium at a reduced “Participant” fee of Euro 125*. Participants will be assigned several papers authored by other people and will have to write a short comment on how they would have handled the described situations. Participants will be expected to present their papers and their comments on other people’s papers at the Colloquium.
A limited number of authors of the papers that are not accepted for presentation at the Colloquium or those who do not have a case to contribute may be accepted to the Colloquium as Observers. An “Observer” fee for taking part in the Colloquium is Euro 475.*
A Call for Papers with detailed description of the submission procedure will follow. Please address your inquiries to Kate McCourt, ESMT Program Manager, at coaching@esmt.org
Important Deadlines:
- July 1: Final Deadline for Submission of Papers
- September 15: Notification of the Authors of Accepted Papers
- October 15: Submission of Final Accepted Papers (with requested revisions)
- November 15: Distribution of Final Papers for Comments
- December 1: Submission of Comments on Assigned Papers
Colloquium Participation Fee and Logistics:
Understanding the need for professional development of coaches, the Center for Leadership Development Research at ESMT establishes a minimal fee for participation in the event. Authors of the accepted papers and invited commentators are offered a reduced “Participant” fee of 125 euros* for participation in this event.
A limited number of observers may be accepted for the Colloquium without submission of a paper/acting as a commentator, based on the number of places available. The “Observer” fee is established at 475 euros*. The final registration deadline for observers is November 15th.
Participants will be responsible for their own travel arrangements. A contingent of rooms at preferential prices will be reserved at a nearby hotel. Participants will be responsible for making their own hotel bookings using a provided code.
Please address your inquiries to Kate McCourt, ESMT Program Manager, at coaching@esmt.org.
Colloquium Convenors:
- Prof. Konstantin Korotov, Associate Professor, ESMT
- Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries, the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD Global Leadership Center, Fontainebleau & Singapore, and Distinguished Professor of the Center for Leadership Development Research at ESMT
- Andreas Bernhardt, Program Director and Executive Coach, ESMT CS
- Kate McCourt, Program Manager, ESMT CS
- Liz Florent-Treacy, Research Project Manager, INSEAD
- Laura Guillén, Assistant Professor, ESMT
* The fee includes attending the colloquium, use of the conference room and break-out rooms, coffee-breaks, lunch, w-lan access on campus, conference materials, and evening activities included in the program.
2009: 1st ESMT Coaching Colloquium
Tricky coaching: Dealing with difficult cases in leadership coaching
Tricky coaching: Dealing with difficult cases in leadership coaching
December 11 & 12, 2009
ESMT Campus, Berlin, Germany
- More than 50 expert coaches, scholars, and practitioners engaged in peer consultation
- Importance of leadership development in all areas highlighted throughout two-day conference
ESMT's Center for Leadership Development Research held its 1st Coaching Colloquium “Tricky Coaching: Dealing with Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching” on December 11-12, 2009. The ESMT Coaching Colloquium brought together 50 leading executive coaches from Europe, Asia, and the Americas; researchers in the fields of Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Careers from such institutions as ESMT, INSEAD, HEC Paris, and Harvard Business School; and practitioners from various global companies, including E.ON, Cathay Pacific, Ernst & Young, and SAP.
The atypical conference focused on difficult cases in leadership coaching. Participants engaged in writing case studies based on challenges in their leadership coaching work, as well as commenting on cases prepared by other participants. In line with ESMT’s mission of bridging theory and praxis, scholarly presentations by Zhike Lei (ESMT), Konstantin Korotov (ESMT), Laura Guillen-Ramo (INSEAD), and Colin Fisher (Harvard Business School) brought important findings from current Organizational Behavior and Leadership research to the attention of coaching practitioners from the areas of human resources, organizational development, and leadership development.
"This colloquium uniquely brought together research from faculty and real-world cases from participants and rapidly created a learning environment of reflection, trust, and engagement," said Graham Barkus, Head of Organization Development, Cathay Pacific Airlines. "As a result, program participants gained true insight with practical application to their real business issues and challenges."
Manfred Kets de Vries, Distinguished Professor at ESMT and the Raoul de Vitry d'Avancourt Chaired Clinical Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD, underlined the importance of coaches getting engaged in reflection on their own practice. ESMT Prof. Konstantin Korotov accentuated the importance of research on coaching practices as part of the ESMT's effort on studying leadership development in modern organizations.
The convenors of the 1st Coaching Colloquium: Prof. Konstantin Korotov, Andreas Bernhardt, Kate McCourt, Manfred Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Laura Guillen-Ram.
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