Saskia de

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About Saskia de

Saskia de Maat is program director of the INSEAD Executive Master of Change (EMC) programme where she integrates her knowledge of and experience in organizational, academic, and clinical fields. Having studied Communications and Marketing, she started her career in corporate life with Akzo Nobel, working for more than 12 years in various roles. Here, she developed a deep understanding of organizational and leadership challenges and processes. She left corporate life for her passion of psychology and trained as psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, working for many years at the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute in Amsterdam, next to setting up her own consulting and coaching practice, where she works with executives, non-executives and professional leaders and their teams and boards from a system psychodynamic perspective. Appreciating and being challenged by academic thinking and research, Saskia always combined her clinical work with research activities. She was part of a research group in her clinic and obtained a PhD in clinical psychology (2007). Her recent research interests, shifted to applied psychodynamic thinking in leadership and organizations and include the question of the impact of unconscious phantasy structures on leadership behaviour. Saskia has a broad teaching experience. She worked as faculty with the VU University in Amsterdam and with the RINO Amsterdam Psychotherapy Training Programme. She was a lecturer at the Centre for Executive Coaching of the VU University in Amsterdam, teaching senior business leaders and HR professionals and executive coaches. She worked for leadership programmes in the Netherlands and developed her own masterclasses on psychodynamic theory and practice and topics for executive coaches, HR professionals and clinical professionals. As a fellow of Phyleon consultancy Saskia works with (non) executives and their teams and boards. She co-conducts a programme designed for non-executives to develop their leadership in context. Her clients stem from a broad range of sectors including the financial sector, law firms, health care, construction companies, consultancy, universities, higher education institutes, IT, large corporates, packaging industry, and public and not for profit organisations. Saskia is member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), the Dutch Psychoanalytic Association (NPaV), the International Society for Psychoanalytic Studies of Organisations (ISPSO) and of the European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS).