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Anand Narasimhan, Shell Professor of Global Leadership, focuses on the dynamics of boards and top teams, and their impact on transformation in organizations. Anand has worked with board directors and senior executives on how to enhance their leadership presence in order to create a positive impact on their followers and stakeholders.

Öykü Işık, Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity, is an expert on digital resilience and the ways in which disruptive technologies challenge our society and organizations. Named on the Thinkers50 Radar 2022 list of up-and-coming global thought leaders, she helps businesses to tackle cybersecurity, data privacy, and digital ethics challenges, and enables CEOs and other executives to understand these issues, which she believes are too important to be left to technical specialists alone.

Michael Yaziji is an award-winning author whose work spans leadership and strategy. He is recognized as a world-leading expert on non-market strategy and NGO-corporate relations and has a particular interest in ethical questions facing business leaders. His latest research includes the world’s largest survey on psychological drivers, psychological safety and organizational performance and explores how human biases and self-deception can impact decision-making and how they can be mitigated.

Katharina joined IMD as Affiliate Professor of Leadership in September 2019. She has taught executives globally, specializing in self-leadership and cross-cultural team leadership in times of Change.

Before joining IMD, Katharina led the Office of Executive Development at Singapore Management University (SMU). Being at SMU since 2013, she directed Open Programs such as ALPINE (Asia Leaders Program in Infrastructure) or the J&J Hospital Management Program.

Ric serves as Affiliate Professor of Leadership & Organization with IMD. He is a senior business psychologist who has led advisory projects for clients in over 30 countries. He advises Boards and CEOs on matters related to Board Renewal, CEO Succession, Top Team Effectiveness and Leadership Transitions.

He has over 25 years of consulting and teaching experience, including 18 years based in Asia. Prior to joining IMD he served as head of leadership advisory services for Russell Reynolds for Asia Pacific.

Louise Muhdi is Affiliate Professor of Innovation and Strategy. She helps organizations rapidly adapt to an uncertain and fast-changing business environment, drive innovation and growth, and sustain value creation for the long term. She enables executives to develop the capabilities, skills, tools, and mindsets needed to successfully lead and manage change and business transformation.