Konstantin Korotov
Associate Professor with tenure and Director of the Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR)
Konstantin Korotov joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in August 2005 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in August 2008. In August of 2011 he was given tenure in addition to being named the director of ESMT's Center for Leadership Development Research. Konstantin is also an executive coach and a research fellow with the INSEAD Global Leadership Center in Fontainebleau, France, where he also received his PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior). In addition to his academic work, he has over 15 years of practical Leadership Development experience in the US, Russia, UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Hong Kong, Brazil, and Argentina.
Konstantin's dissertation was about the dynamics of executives’ identity change and conditions supporting personal transformation. He currently conducts research on leadership development, leadership coaching, and executive education. His recent work is reflected in The Coaching Kaleidoscope: Insights from the Inside, a new book co-edited with Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guillen, and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (Palgrave, 2010) that is a sequel to Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (with Kets de Vries and Florent-Treacy, Palgrave, 2007), as well as in book chapters and academic and practitioner articles on leadership development, and teaching materials for participants in executive educationprograms. Konstantin is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
As an expert on leadership and management in Russia and post-Soviet economies, Konstantin also conducts research on leadership styles of business elite and emerging leaders in the region. With Manfred Kets de Vries and associates he co-authored The New Global Russian Business Leaders book (Edward Elgar, 2004), co-edited a special issue of Organizational Dynamics on Russian Leadership (September 2008), and published academic and practitioner-oriented articles on leadership, leadership development, and careers in Russia. He has also written a number of case studies on leadership challenges. His case-study on Mikhail Khodorkovsky and YUKOS: Chelovek s rublyom [Man with a Ruble] (with Kets de Vries, Florent, and Shekshnia, 2004) won the European Foundation for Management Development case study competition. Konstantin is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies.
Konstantin is the program director for ESMT’s Leading People and Teams executive program. He also teaches Organizational Behavior and Integrative Leadership courses in the ESMT MBA and EMBA programs. In 2009 and 2010 he received the Executive MBA Best Teacher Award. His executive education portfolio includes programs for, among others, Deutsche Telekom, RWE, KPMG, Elster Group, Deloitte, McDonald’s, BAT, B/S/H, B.Braun, Almirall, Ernst & Young, XEROX, E.ON, Deutsche Bank, Postbank, EBC, and Pernod-Ricard.
Konstantin consults companies worldwide on issues of leadership development, executive coaching, and mentoring. He is also a practicing leadership coach.
Additionally, Konstantin has held positions of Director of Professional Development for Ernst & Young (CIS), consultant for the Center for Business Skills Development (CBSD), and researcher at New York University.
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