International Connections
Over the past few years, we have been fortunate to work with and learn from the following international experts:
Excelerator: New Zealand Leadership Institute
CATALYST4 has strong connections with Excelerator where Peter is a Programme Director and the lead designer and facilitator of the Hillary Leadership Programme (18-month leadership programme for senior executives) and contributor to the Chair and CEO Forum.
Manfred Kets de Vries
Clinical professor of leadership development at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre. He is best known for bringing a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organisational change.
Bruce Avolio
Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute, Co-Director of the UNL/Gallup MBA/MA programme in Executive Leadership, and Director of the Ph.D. programme. Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He has consulted with senior leaders in public and private organisations in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD, and the author of several books, including From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy (2001) and Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition (2007).
Michael Useem
The Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and a leading global expert on corporate leadership and change management. He has run numerous programmes on leadership, decision making, governance, and change with companies and organisations in the private, public, and non-profit sectors in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Keith Grint
Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and teaches at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage.
Jonathan Gosling
Co-founded with Henry Mintzberg and others a new approach to management education, the International Masters in Practicing Management. This takes place in six countries around the world and has been the springboard for several subsequent innovations in helping practicing managers to improve the way they manage.
Amanda Sinclair
Foundation Professor of Management Diversity and Change at Melbourne Business School. She also consults to organisations and senior management teams. Her particular expertise is in the areas of leadership and ethics, organisational culture and change, gender and diversity.
Stefan Sveningsson
Associate Professor of Business Administration in the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. He is currently engaged in several research projects covering various organisational topics, including leadership, managerial identity work and change in contemporary business organisations.
Clinical professor of leadership development at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre. He is best known for bringing a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organisational change.
Bruce Avolio
Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute, Co-Director of the UNL/Gallup MBA/MA programme in Executive Leadership, and Director of the Ph.D. programme. Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He has consulted with senior leaders in public and private organisations in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD, and the author of several books, including From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy (2001) and Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition (2007).
Michael Useem
The Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and a leading global expert on corporate leadership and change management. He has run numerous programmes on leadership, decision making, governance, and change with companies and organisations in the private, public, and non-profit sectors in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Keith Grint
Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and teaches at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage.
Jonathan Gosling
Co-founded with Henry Mintzberg and others a new approach to management education, the International Masters in Practicing Management. This takes place in six countries around the world and has been the springboard for several subsequent innovations in helping practicing managers to improve the way they manage.
Amanda Sinclair
Foundation Professor of Management Diversity and Change at Melbourne Business School. She also consults to organisations and senior management teams. Her particular expertise is in the areas of leadership and ethics, organisational culture and change, gender and diversity.
Stefan Sveningsson
Associate Professor of Business Administration in the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. He is currently engaged in several research projects covering various organisational topics, including leadership, managerial identity work and change in contemporary business organisations.
