An expert in leadership and change management, Custodia Cabanas has authored numerous research works on organisational behaviour, being a regular collaborator with professors from Insead and Wharton in this field. She co-authored, in collaboration with Professor Mauro Guillén, the Fontaneda case, which has attracted the attention of leading international business schools. Over the last three years, Professor Cabanas has extended her field of research toward strategic communication and has set up, and currently runs, the first observatory in the field in a Spanish business school.

Professor Cabanas has taught at IE since 1989, and has been a research associate at Insead. She regularly collaborates with leading media agents in Spain, and publishes each year studies on innovation and strategic communication in organizations. Furthermore, she is Director for contents of the leadership development workshops for IE Business School and IE University.

She holds a PhD and a MBA from IE University, and a Law Degree from Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Professor Cabanas teaches in masters programs such as IMBA and Executive MBA, as well as in-company and Executive Programs at IE.

As a Partner of Paragon Partners, Antonio is devoted primarily to Senior Management Consulting, Board of Directors and Executive Search.

During ten years he led several departments at IESE Business School, working with a large number of executives and major national and international companies, and created and managed the Center for Public Leadership and Government.

His experience in Public Management has been developed in his position of Social Policy Director for the Cabinet of the President of the Government of Spain. He worked as a social entrepreneur in the creation and consolidation of the NGO ‘International Cooperation’ in more than 12 countries.

He has a Bachelor degree from CUNEF, an MBA from IESE, a Master degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD from the Rey Juan Carlos University. Currently he is the President of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association in Spain and Member of several Boards of Directors.

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Candidate for Ph.D., Doctor of Social Psychology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Master in Gestalt Psychology, Instituto de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Madrid; Degree in Psychology, specialising in industrial psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

He specialises in personal leadership of teams and change management and has extensive experience in teaching and as a training consultant, which he is now using as a platform on which to base his research. Grupo Santander, BBVA, Banesto, Indra, Iberdrola, Adecco, Airbus, Ferrovial, Pfizer, Uralita or the Centre for Nuclear Security are some of the companies with whom professor Vicente has worked. All this experience is serving him well in the two new cases he is now preparing on management and conflict in teams, combining this work with hisresponsibilities as head of IE’s Centre for Leadership and his teaching of leadership and organisational behaviour at IE. Moreover, he is currently teaching a master in Gestalt psychology to help directors in their personal and professional development, bringing them an awareness of the whys and wherefores of their behaviour as a base on which to build the personal changes required of them.

Enrique Ogliastri has taught at IE since the year 2000 and he is also a professor at INCAE (Costa Rica). He holds a PhD, MBA, a master’s in social psychology and a degree in industrial engineering. He has authored fifteen books, the latest of which was published by Harvard University Press (2006, co-author). His “Manual de Planificación Estratégica” (Manual onStrategic planning) has seen five editions and sixteen printings in fifteen years. He worked at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) for twenty-five years and at Harvard University for four years. He was also visiting professor of strategy and negotiation in France (ESC Toulouse andL’Université de Nancy) and in Japan. “I have always had a strange fascination for the East”, says Enrique. “I remember perfectly two books that my father had in his collection, and after readingthem I devoured the novels by authors from India and other countries translated by Barral”.

He started teaching negotiation in 1987 after learning about it at MIT, Kellogg, and the Harvard Negotiation Programme. He has specialised in pinpointing the problems that are specific to negotiations in Latin cultures and has undertaken research projects on the subject as well aswriting books and cases. “I first started to study negotiation when I finished two projects (a bookon strategy and another on intercultural management). I quickly decided to investigate intercultural negotiation and my first study was on Japan and Latin America, which led me to spend a semester in Tokyo. Over the years I have written several books on the relation betweenculture and management”.

In recent years he has held workshops on negotiations in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the US, France, Japan, Peru and Venezuela.