GELI Online is an interactive tool that was especially designed for administering the 360-degree leadership assessment instrument – the Global Executive Leadership Inventory (GELI). Developed by internationally renowned business scholar, Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, GELI is designed to measure specific leadership behaviors and provide feedback that contributes toward the leadership development of today's globally-minded executive. To find out more, click on the following links:

How was GELI developed and what are its benefits?
Who is Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries?
Who is GELI Online for?
What do I need to run GELI Online?
What am I buying and what does it cost?
How do I get started?

How was GELI developed and what are its benefits?
The Global Executive Leadership Inventory is part of an extensive research project investigating the daily actions and behaviors of effective global executives. The Inventory was developed by Dr. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries to help executives evaluate their performance in carrying out 12 primary leadership tasks that he had seen were important to senior executives. Because there is frequently a significant difference between what leaders say that they do and what they actually do, the Inventory was designed as a 360- dgree feedback instrument, allowing leaders to compare their self-perceptions to the perceptions of others.Click here to read an article about the instrument's development (Published in International Journal of Resource Management http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals)

This kind of a 360-degree feedback system has several important benefits, including the following:

• It can serve as an early warning system, highlighting areas in which leaders need to develop and cautioning them about their "blind spots"
• It can provide an opening for constructive dialogue, both horizontally and vertically, redefining superior-subordinate relationships and contributing to a more open, network- oriented corporate culture
• It can serve as a rough assessment tool to identify people who have high leadership potential
• Although the instrument is recommended for developmental purposes, it can help managers make administrative decisions during the performance appraisal process
• It can contribute to a general organizational change assessment leading to organizational transformation initiatives.

Who is Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries?
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries is the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Clinical Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD in France and Singapore. He is also the director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center. He received an economics degree from the University of Amsterdam and MBA and DBA degrees from the Harvard Business School. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst/psychotherapist and a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has held professorships at McGill University, the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montréal, and the Harvard Business School. He has lectured at management institutions around the world. He is the program director of INSEAD's Top Management Program, "The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders," and scientific director of the Diploma Program, "Coaching and Consulting for Change," and has five times received INSEAD's distinguished teacher award. His research interests include leadership, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, and the psychodynamics of personal and corporate transformation. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have judged Manfred Kets de Vries one of world's leading thinkers on leadership.

Kets de Vries is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books and has published over two hundred scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. Furthermore, he has written over one hundred case studies, including six that received the best case of the year award from the European Case Clearing House (ECCH). His books and articles have been translated into eighteen languages. His best-known titles (some with coauthors) are Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management (1980/1994), The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counter-Productive Styles of Management (1984/1990), Handbook of Character Studies (1991), Organizations on the Couch (1991), Leaders, Fools, and Impostors (1993, 2003), Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders (1995), Family Business: Human Dilemmas in the Family Firm (1996), The New Global Leaders: Percy Barnevik, Richard Branson, and David Simon (1999), Struggling with the Demon: Perspectives on Individual and Organizational Irrationality (2001), The Leadership Mystique (2001), The Happiness Equation (2002), Are Leaders Born or Are They Made: The Case of Alexander the Great (2004), The New Russian Business Leaders (2004), and Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic (2004). He also developed The Personality Audit, a multi-rater personality test. He is a member of seventeen editorial boards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading U.S., Canadian, European, African, and Asian companies. As an educator and consultant he has worked in more than thirty countries. In his spare time he can be found in the rain forest and savannas of Central Africa, the taiga of Siberia, the Pamir Mountains, or the barren wastelands of the Arctic.

Who is GELI Online for?
GELI is an ideal training and coaching tool for multi-national organizations that are looking to attract, train, and retain the best and brightest next-generation leaders. Although the Global Executive Leadership Inventory can be taken by individuals on their own, it is most effective when used in group settings such as workshops and retreats where a facilitator can help the leader understand and apply the results. One effective way to use the instrument is in a natural work group where all the leaders have a stake in the results, making change more likely. The Inventory also provides executive coaches with a tool for helping individuals recognize their strengths and understand where they need to focus their development efforts. Originally designed for top executives, including CEOs, the Inventory is appropriate for a wide range of leaders, including mid-level managers, junior and senior executives, and organizational directors working in profit and non-profit organizations.

What do I need to run GELI Online?
GELI Online can be accessed over the Internet through most modern Web browsers. Please see the System Requirements for more details.

What am I buying and what does it cost?
When you purchase a leader "token" from this website, you are able to assign a leader "license" to the participant that you determine. The license term for each Leader purchased is 12 months. Observer Licenses are free with the purchase of a Leader License.

Note: If a Leader License is not used by the end of the 12-month term, that Leader License will expire and cannot be used.

The following price and quantity discount schedule has been established:

These discounts will be automatically applied when you order. For bulk orders of 500 Leaders or more, please call toll-free 1-866-888-5159 for discount information.

If you are a reseller, training provider, or independent consultant, please call toll-free 1-866- 888-5159 for more discount information and guidelines for becoming an Authorized Distributor of GELI Online.

How do I get started?
To create an account and purchase Leader Licenses, go Buy GELI. For further information about GELI Online, visit our Help section.

Contextual Definitions:

Administrator
Administrators purchase the appropriate number of Licenses, set up, and manage the Leaders (and in some cases, the Observers) who will be taking the GELI. They may come from an organization's internal staff or be external consultants or coaches. Typically, they are also in charge of arranging a meeting or workshop where the GELI Feedback Report is discussed with Leaders.

Leader
Leaders take the GELI Self but also select, set up, and manage the Observers who will help assess their leadership behaviors. Leaders are set up by their Administrator.

Observer
Observers are selected and set up by the Leader (or in some cases the Administrator can perform this task). They come to GELI Online to fill out the Observer survey for that Leader.