Ann Houston Kelley
Ann Houston Kelley enables international executives in global organizations to have conversations about the ‘things that matter’. She specializes in promoting professional and personal sustainability for executive women, delivering value-added executive coaching, building high performance global teams, enabling senior leaders to manage change effectively, counseling organizations on how to use diversity and cross-cultural competence ‘to get the job done’ and coaching senior leaders on maximizing the benefits of expatriation for both the organization and the individuals involved.
Since 1995, she has built up a successful niche executive coaching firm based in the Netherlands which operates across Europe and the Middle East. She has coached and consulted with corporate leaders from 57 countries across 7 sectors (consultancy, UN & European agencies, electronics, financial services, energy & petrochemical, pharma and retail). Her international background (American-Dutch in NL 20 years), her diverse professional background (economist and family systems psychotherapist) and work experience (marketing analyst, IT manager, HR specialist, psychotherapist for international executives and their families) all help her to relate more effectively to her clients and their situations.
She is a senior associate of the Insead Global Leadership Center and the Center for Creative Leadership. She is a member of the ISPSO, SIETAR and the APA. She is the author of the chapter “Coaching Executives across Cultures” in Coach and Couch The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (edited by Manfred Kets-deVries, Insead Press, Palgrave McMillan 2007).
Elisabet Engellau
Elisabet Engellau is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management at INSEAD (Fontainebleau/Singapore/Abu Dhabi). As Program Director at INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, she designs, teaches, and coaches in executive programs, open enrollment, as well as company specific programs, focusing on leadership, high performance teams and personal and professional development. She has been an affiliate professor at McGill University, Faculty of Management, a teaching fellow at Harvard University, and Concordia University, Montreal as well as visiting faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership and Stockholm School of Economics. She has also produced and directed a number of video films for management education and has recently been involved in developing feedback instruments. She is the co-author of “Doing an Alexander”: Lessons on Leadership by a Master Conqueror (2004) and contributing author to the books Conversations in Leadership: South African Perspectives (2004), Coach and Couch (2006) and the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Harvard University Press(2009).
Ms Engellau also works as an independent consultant, specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, cross-cultural management and team building.
As founding partner of the Kets de Vries Institute, London, UK (an organizational consulting company with a global network of leadership coaches and consultants) her professional activities are focused on the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. In her work with individuals and teams in organizations around the world (ABN-AMRO, Bain, CIBA, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HypoVereinsbank, Lundbeck, McKinsey, NAB, Nokia, SAB Miller, Standard Bank of South Africa, Vodafone, Unilever and The Cabinet Office, UK) she combines her long-term interest in creativity with a clinical approach to human resource management.
Her previous professional experience includes production and management in a variety of creative fields in an international context. She has held management positions at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, and Malmö Municipal Theatre.
She has pursued academic studies at Uppsala University (MA in Art History, Literature and Anthropology), at Harvard University (graduate work in Psychology and Social Studies) and at McGill University (PhD studies in Communications and Management) and has undertaken psychoanalytic training in Montreal and Paris.
Linda Wenzek-Barth
Linda Wenzek-Barth will provide the mind-body balance modules in the program. She is a German-American who began her career in tourism and then flew into the business world of marketing and sales for airlines. A 2 ½ year posting in China, culminating in the turbulent weeks leading up to the Tiananmen Massacre of ’89, left a deep impression and inspired her to take up a health-oriented career path upon her return to Germany.
As a German-certified Naturopath (Heilpraktikerin) and NLP Master Practitioner, Linda has specialized in Holistic Massage (TouchLife), Reflexology and energy work using both Pranic and Reconnective Healing as well as the relatively new field of Energy Psychology, better known as Thought Field Therapy or EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
It was in China that she first became acquainted with the beauty and health benefits of Tai Chi, which has resulted in workshops given by Linda for beginners of the discipline as well as for yoga-like exercises called The Five Tibetan Rites.
During the first 14 years of her practice as a naturopath she also worked as a suggestopedic (Super- or Accelerated Learning) Trainer for English and is the author of the suggestopedic textbook: English for International Business – Fun in the Sun, (Juenger Verlag, Offenbach, 1995).
She continues to enjoy helping business men and women find relaxation through movement, her motto being: “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
