Katherine Philips-Kaiser

Katherine (Kate) Philips-Kaiser is a coach, facilitator and trainer, helping business people better understand and manage their businesses and themselves. For management teams and individuals facing adaptive challenges, she provides the structure for effective reflection and the generation of new sustainable strategies.

Working extensively with INSEAD and other business schools since 2003, she has run experiential workshops, taught business simulations, led reflection sessions, and facilitated group work to help participants more effectively transfer knowledge to their work context. Kate also provides one-on-one professional development coaching to hundreds of MBAs and Executive MBAs, as well as private clients, from around the world. She designs and leads career workshops and has developed a series of frameworks for self-discovery and career reflection.

From 1997 to 2002, Kate was a Manager of Sales Operations and Marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa with global telecom manufacturer Nortel, based in Paris. She began her career with a focus on cross-cultural research and training as Coordinator of the Centre for Canada-Asia Business Relations at Queen’s University in Canada.

These experiences combined with her Greek-Canadian heritage, give Kate a wealth of multi-cultural and multi-functional understanding to the people with whom she works. She brings a unique understanding of business pedagogy, the challenges facing international managers today, and the different cultural contexts in which they operate.

Kate holds an MBA (1997) from INSEAD (France) and a Bachelor of Arts and Science Honours (1994) in Economics and Politics from Queen’s University (Canada). She is a certified coach for individuals and teams (Firework Coaching, Coaches Training Institute, Team Coaching International, Personal Strengths) and is currently completing the Executive Masters in Clinical Organisational Psychology (Consulting and Coaching for Change) at INSEAD.

 

Kevin Kaiser

Kevin Kaiser joined the finance faculty at INSEAD in 1992 where he is currently Professor of Management Practice and Director of the Transition to General Management programme.  Kevin teaches extensively in the executive and MBA programmes at INSEAD and is an eight-time recipient of the MBA award for Best Teacher for Electives (Fontainebleau campus.  He also teaches at numerous institutes and for private clients throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and has been Visiting Adjunct Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1995-96, 2005, and 2006).  His research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and value creation in corporate restructuring and value-based management.

In the classroom, Kevin combines his deep knowledge of academic theory together with the first-hand practical knowledge he has gained through real-world experience.  Kevin worked in the Corporate Finance and Strategy practice of McKinsey & Co., based in Amsterdam and Paris from 1997-1999, where he led and participated in a wide variety of studies involving companies across Europe, the U.S.A., Asia and Africa addressing value creation, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate strategy.  Kevin was also a principal in bfinance.com, a venture capital-financed marketplace for business finance which began in 1999 and presently manages multi-billions of Euros in transactions annually between thousands of corporations and hundreds of participating financial institutions across Europe.

Kevin holds a BA (Honours) in Economics from The University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.