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Meet your Program Directors

Benefit from faculty expertise and research

Our Faculty members are recognized world authorities in their fields. Dividing their time between teaching, research, and working with international companies, they remain on top of the latest management trends. You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials, and content in all IMD programs.

Susan Goldsworthy

Affiliate Professor of Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Change

Susan Goldsworthy OLY is Affiliate Professor of Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Change. As a former Olympic finalist, award-winning writer, executive coach, and speaker with more than 20 years of corporate experience with large multinationals, Susan Goldsworthy brings knowledge from the fields of sport, business and neuroscience to h…

Séverine Jourdain

IMD Executive Director, Coaching & Leadership Excellence

Séverine Jourdain is Executive Director, Coaching & Leadership Excellence at IMD, leveraging her diverse “hats” as Coaching Community Leader and Executive Coach to maximize the impact of our IMD Coaching offering for clients. Séverine is a recognized executive leadership and business senior coach with 20+ years’ experience, ICF MCC credentialed, supporting C-Suite individuals, leadership teams and full organizations to thrive.

Silke Mischke

IMD Executive Coach

Silke Mischke works as a leadership lecturer and senior executive coach. She holds a doctorate in business administration and a master’s degree in cognitive psychology. She is licensed to administer and interpret several instruments to illuminate individual and group preferences and growth potential. Her coaching and teaching activities cover work with teams and individuals from international organizations.

“Leveraging the best coaching practices, strongly rooted in core ICF competencies, and the best coaching research.”

The program features a distinctive combination of theory, practice, and diverse coaching approaches. Séverine explains how this enables participants to develop their unique coaching style.

“The greater the variety of participants, the richer the learning experience.”

“Participants explore both their own identity and how it links to facilitating the growth of others.”

Three simple exercises to help create the conditions to thrive

by Susan Goldsworthy

As we strive to become better managers, better leaders, and better people in increasingly uncertain circumstances, we may overlook some of the simplest things we can do to improve our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

How leaders can develop emotional intelligence

By Silke Mischke and Professor Jennifer Jordan

There is a mythical idea that, at work, people can park their emotions at the door. The fact is: that’s impossible! Emotions are triggered by the context and help us adapt.

Want to perform at your best? Take a rest!

By Professor Susan Goldsworthy and Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Business leaders can learn how to optimize performances by studying the training routines of Olympic athletes.

Six leadership myths debunked during the pandemic

By Professor Susan Goldsworthy

In the past months, our world changed beyond recognition. Many taken-for-granted beliefs evaporated before our eyes. And some of these beliefs have been held for so long that they became myths.  

Anand Narasimhan

Shell Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research

Anand Narasimhan is Shell Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research. He focuses on top team and board dynamics and their impact on organizational transformation. He works with board directors and senior executives on how to enhance their leadership presence to create a positive impact on their followers and stakeholders. Anand’s teac…

George Kohlrieser

Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior

George Kohlrieser is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. He is an organizational and clinical psychologist, hostage negotiator, award-winning author, consultant, conference speaker, and media commentator. His research, teaching, and consulting activities focus on high-performance leadership, high-performance teamwork,…

Jean-François Manzoni

Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development

Jean-François Manzoni (JFM) is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development at IMD, where he served as President and Nestlé Professor from 2017 to 2024. His research, teaching, and consulting activities are focused on leadership, the development of high-performance organizations, and corporate governance. In recent years he has al…

Heather Cairns-Lee

Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication

Heather Cairns-Lee is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication. Her award-winning research and teaching focus on sensemaking in leaders and organizations, collaboration, authentic and effective communication and the creation of diverse, caring and inclusive cultures. She works to develop reflective and responsible leaders at all levels…

Francisco Szekely

Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Sustainability

Francisco Szekely is Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Sustainability. His work contributes to the understanding of the interrelationships between the emergence of new social, economic, and environmental trends as well as the development of long-term, sustainable business strategies. Szekely’s research explores how companies can include sustai…

Jennifer Jordan

Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Jennifer Jordan is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Her teaching, research, and consulting focus on influence, power, family business, women’s leadership, and leadership transitions. In 2019, she was named by Poets&Quants as one of the world’s leading business school professors under 40. Leaders in today’s society need …

Frédéric Dalsace

Professor of Marketing and Strategy

Frédéric Dalsace is Professor of Marketing and Strategy. He focuses on two distinct areas – B2B issues such as customer centricity, buyer-seller relationships, and value management, and sustainability, inclusive business models, and alleviating poverty. He believes that companies need to rethink their approach to customer centricity. He says…