Katharina Balazs

Dr. Katharina Balazs holds an associate Professorship in the Management Department of the European School of Management (ESCP Europe) in Paris, France. She is also Executive Coach and runs her private coaching and executive development practice, working with executives in global organizations in various countries, specializing on maximizing performance and driving value at C-suite level, working with both teams and individuals.

Katharina’s expertise is in leadership, with a particular focus on leadership communication and presence, women leaders, power and influence, developing high performance cross-cultural teams in organizations and organizational change.

She has worked with, among others, Boehringer Ingelheim, Akzo Nobel, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, EDF, KMPG, Merck, Pernod-Ricard, Randstad, Siemens, Societé Générale, Sonova, Vivendi, TUV and Umicore, Unicredit the World Economic Forum.

With a background in humanities and business administration, Katharina holds a PhD from HEC Paris, as well as an MBA, an M.Sc. and an Executive Master’s degree in Coaching and Consulting for Change (CCC) from INSEAD.

Prior to getting involved in leadership development, Katharina worked as a strategic consultant in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe specializing in cross-cultural issues in international M&As.

She is the author and co-author of several books, scientific articles, cases, and research papers on leadership, executive coaching and development, organizational excellence, downsizing, and organization transformation and change. 

Of Hungarian/Austrian origin, she has been working and living across Europe, and resides in France since 1993. She is a member of the ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) and the International Coach Federation, as well as a Certified Advisory Board member by Sciences Po/IFA Paris. Her working languages are English, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish.

Specialist Subjects

• Leadership
  
• Change
  
• Cross Cultural Management
  
• High-performance teams

Education

• INSEAD - Executive Master, Consulting and Coaching for Change (EMCCC) 2008 - 2010
• Sciences Po - IFA Certificat Administrateur de Sociétés / Board Certification, Corporate Governance 2014 - 2015
• HEC Paris - PhD, Dr., Business Administration 1998 - 2001
• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers - DEA, Management Sciences 1998 - 1999
• INSEAD - MSc, Business Administration 1996 - 1998
• INSEAD - MBA, Business Administration 1993 - 1994
• WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) - 1990 - 1991
• University of Vienna - MA, History and Languages 1983 - 1988
• NFL (Nouvelle Faculté Libre) - Psychanalyse Intégrative 2012
• INSEAD - EMCCC, Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change 2009 - 2010
• INSEAD - Diploma, Clinical Organizational Psychology 2008 - 2009

Publications

• Are you a Prisoner of Optical Illusions? The Enigma of Transference
  MFR Kets de Vries, K Balazs
  INSEAD Working Paper 2018
• The shadow side of leadership
  MK de Vries, K Balazs
  Handbook of top management teams, 183-190 2010
• Ils ont décroché les étoiles!: quand les grands chefs nous livrent leurs recettes de leadership
  K Balazs
  Village mondial 2009
• Where’s the Beef?
  MK DE VRIES, K BALAZS
  Handbook of Organization Development, 79 2008
• La part d’ombre des dirigeants
  MK de VRIES, K BALAZS
  Comités exécutifs: voyage au coeur de la dirigeance, 170 2007
• Organizational Dynamics Volume 34
  B Agle, GR See Weaver, J Almost, GP See Latham, K Balazs, M Kets, ...
  Future 34 (3), 273-284 2005
• Organizations as Optical Illusions:: A Clinical Perspective on Organizational Consultation
  MK De Vries, K Balazs
  Organizational Dynamics 34 (1), 1-17 2005
• Greed, vanity, and the grandiosity of the CEO character
  M Kets de Vries, K Balazs
  Leadership Governance from the Inside out, 51-61 2004
• Die Psychodynamik des Organisationswandels
  M Kets de Vries, K Balazs
  Psychodynamische Organisationsberatung, 161-197 2004
• Chan-Olmsted, S., 95 Claus, L., 438 Claver, E., 321 Cornelissen, J., 172
  T Ambler, F Ancarani, L Andersen, K Balazs, T Barnes, B Bartkus, ...
  European Management Journal 20 (6), 713 2002
• Take one entrepreneur:: the recipe for success of France’s great chefs
  K Balazs
  European Management Journal 20 (3), 247-259 2002
• La gestion des restaurants gastronomiques: Leadership, créativité et culture organisationnelle.
  K Balazs
  HEC PARIS 2002
• Organizational Dynamics Volume 30
  RS Allen, A Kendyl, K Balazs
  Commitment 30 (4), 295-309 2002
• Some like it haute: leadership lessons from France's great chefs
  K Balazs
  Organizational Dynamics 30 (2), 134-134 2001
• Deconstructing power and politics in organizations: Air France and the application of the ALSA method
  G Trepo, K Balazs
  HAL Working Papers 2000
• Creating the “Authentizotic” Organization: Corporate Transformation and its Vicissitudes—A Rejoinder
  MFRK De Vries, K Balazs
  Administration & Society 31 (2), 275-294 1999
• Creating the authentizotic organization: Corporate transformation and its vicissitudes-A rejoinder
  MFR Kets De Vries, K Balazs
  Administration and Society 21 (2), 275 1999
• Transforming the mind-set of the organization: A clinical perspective
  MFRK De Vries, K Balazs
  Administration & Society 30 (6), 640-675 1999
• Åhlström, P. 327 Andriani, P. 685 Asch, D. 101
  A Atkinson, K Balazs, M Bárkányi, J Birkinshaw, G Bitran, I Björkman, ...
  European Management Journal 16 (6), 743 1998
• Beyond the quick fix:: The psychodynamics of organizational transformation and change
  MFRK de Vries, K Balazs
  European management journal 16 (5), 611-622
• The downside of downsizing
  K Balazs, MFR Kets De Vries
  Human Relations 50 (1), 11-50 1997
• The downside of downsizing
  MFRK De Vries, K Balazs
  Human relations 50 (1), 11-50 1997
• La dimension humaine des restructurations
  MFRK De Vries, B Katharina
  1996
• The human side of downsizing
  MK De Vries, K Balazs
  European Management Journal 14 (2), 111-120 1996
• Transforming the mind-set of the organization: an owner's manual
  MFR Kets de Vries, K Balazs
  WORKING PAPERS-INSEAD R AND D 1996
• Transforming the Mind-set of the Organization: An Owner's Manual
  MFRK de Vries, K Balazs
  INSEAD 1996
• El lado humano de la reestructuración
  MFRK de Vries, K Balazs
  Harvard Deusto business review, 81-94 1996