Elisabeth Marx

Elisabeth Marx’s expertise on leadership and management issues is highly prized throughout the academic and business worlds. She has been a consultant at INSEAD on the development of their Executive MBA and Advanced Management Programmes and writes regularly on management issues for the Financial Times. Elisabeth is a former Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Gender Gap and has founded Elisabeth Marx Associates, a consulting firm that specialises in leadership and management issues.

After studying for her Master’s degree in psychology at the University of Marburg and completing her doctorate at Oxford, Elisabeth lectured at the National University of Singapore. Through extensive research into the diversity and dynamics of Global Boards and by examining the career profiles of CEOs and succession planning in the UK and US, she has identified the key characteristics of successful international executive teams and how they face the challenges of the global marketplace. Elisabeth’s best-selling book Breaking Through Culture Shock introduced the model of the ‘culture shock triangle’ to show how executives are able to work successfully internationally by managing emotions, thinking styles and social skills. Her 2013 book The Power of Global Team was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award.