Anne-Valerie Ohlsson-Corboz

Paul Strebel is the Sandoz Family Foundation Professor of Strategic Change Management at IMD, Lausanne. He has worked privately with top management teams on strategic change and as a keynote speaker and seminar leader for numerous multinationals, including most Nokia, Swisscom and Credit Suisse. He has published six books, as well as articles in top business journals. He received the 2004 Award for Research on Leadership from the Association of Executive Search Consultants for his article ‘The Case for Contingent Governance’

Anne-Valérie Ohlsson has been a Research Associate at IMD since 1999, working on business strategy, mergers & acquisitions and the challenges of managing people in a global organization. She also has substantial experience as a practitioner, having worked in marketing roles for Pfizer and the International Olympic Committee. Anne-Valérie is co-author, with Jacques Horovitz, of A Dream with a Deadline: Turning Strategy into Action (FTPH, 2007) and has also written for Sloan Management Review and the FT Handbook of Management. 

Paul Strebel

Paul Strebel is Professor of Change Management and director of the executive program, Leading Corporate Renewal, to which executives bring live change issues, at IMD, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He has directed a variety of in-company programs for IMD's business partners and associates and has worked privately for numerous multinationals, including most recently, Schroders, Nokia, Nestle, Bosch, World Bank and Coopers & Lybrand.

Professor Strebel is the author of Breakpoints: How Managers Exploit Radical Business Change. His publications have appeared in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Handbook of Business Strategy, plus many others, including numerous articles in the business press. He is on the editorial board of several change management journals.

Prior to his current position, he was director of research at Imede, one of the founding institutions of IMD. Professor Streel is Swiss, of South African origin, received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, his MBA from Columbia University in New York, and his PhD from Princeton University.