Hybrid Intelligence for Executive Development

Evgeny Kaganer is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Innovation and Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at IESE Business School. He teaches MBA and executive courses on digital business and transformation. His research explores how digitalization and artificial intelligence reshape business models and organizations. He has published articles on these topics in premier academic and business journals, including Academy of Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, MIT Sloan Management Review and Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery among others. His work on the effects of digitalization in business and education has been cited in major media outlets, such as the Financial Times, Business Week, Forbes, Handelsblatt and the CIO Magazine.

Evgeny has extensive experience working with senior executive teams in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Russia on the topic of organizational transformation. He has taught, directed customized programs, and consulted with multinational companies, including Schneider Electric, Oracle, ERSTE Group, Amadeus, Carlsberg, and Gazprom Neft among others. In 2013, he was included in the 100 Best Business School Professors list compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Professor Kaganer was a founding Academic Director of the Learning Innovation unit at IESE Business School, helping develop the virtual classroom solution based on Barco’s weconnect technology and launch IESE Online. Between January 2020 and February 2022, he took a leave of absence from IESE to become Dean for Academic Affairs at Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. In this role, he played a key part in developing local faculty and attracting international faculty to Skolkovo. He also bolstered research and program partnerships with top global business schools and helped Skolkovo enter and climb the Financial Times business school ranking. Currently, Professor Kaganer serves as Academic Director of Focused Programs, IESE Lifelong Learning, and the Global CEO Program, offered jointly by IESE and MIT Sloan School of Management.

A native of Ekaterinburg, Russia, Evgeny holds an MD Degree from the Ural State Medical Academy, MBA from Syracuse University and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.

Dr. Terrence E. Maltbia is Professor of Practice in the Department of Organization and Leadership, at Teachers College and serves as Faculty Director, The Columbia Coaching Certification Program (3CP). Scholarly interests include strategic learning; leadership and organizational development; diversity and cultural intelligence; executive and organizational coaching. Terry came to Columbia after 20 years in various corporate and consulting roles.

He is the recipient of The Academy of Human Resources Development’s Malcolm Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award in 2001 and was recognized as #1 in Coach Education by Thinkers50 in 2019, along with numerous awards for his work in coaching education. He is an AHRD Board Member and serves on the Antiracism Committee.

Estíbalitz Ortiz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit, which provides executive and leadership coaching to global executives and managers participating in IESE educational programs around the world. She has a PhD from IESE, and the topic of her doctoral dissertation was mentoring and coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach and senior practitioner by EMCC.

Most of Ortiz’s professional career has been developed in multinational environments. She worked 10 years in human resources at Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 nationalities.

Since 2008, she has collaborated as a lecturer in International HR Management at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in business schools. She is the author of the book La práctica del mentoring en la empresa (EUNSA, 2003) and co-author and co-editor of the book The 7 Moments of Coaching (REM, 2020).

She is certified in different training and assessment methods like The Leadership Circle and Crucial Conversations.

She is the Director of the IESE Leadership Coaching Program, and she teaches the elective course “Coaching for Peak Performance” in the 2nd year of the MBA program.

David Matthew Prior, MCC, BCC, ACTC, is a premier Master Certified Coach with over 25 years of experience transforming global leadership. Based in New York, David has coached more than 1,000 senior executives across 30 countries, championing “performance with integrity” for Fortune 500s and NGOs alike. As a core facilitator team member of Columbia University’s Coaching Certification Program and former Vice President of the ICF Global Board, he stands at the forefront of executive development and team coaching.

David’s expertise is underpinned by a Thunderbird MBA in International Business and unique professional training in theatre performance, allowing him to foster agile leadership and communication mastery. Multilingual in English, Spanish, and French, he navigates diverse cultural nuances with ease. At the IESE 2026 Symposium, David will lead the “Six Thinking Hats” plenary workshop, empowering attendees to cultivate the human connection and creative thinking necessary to excel in a hybrid, AI-augmented future.

Yih-Teen Lee is Full Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations and the Academic Director of the IESE Coaching Unit. He specializes in leadership, fit, and cultural bridging in his roles as educator, researcher, and consultant. His research work appears in leading scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Discoveries) and books such as The Handbook of Chinese Organizational Behavior, Leadership Development in a Global World, and The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. He is also co-editor of the books Les compétences culturelles and CulturalContexts of Human Resource Development. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, and Advances in Global Leadership. He is also the Director of the book series “Diversité culturelle et dynamiques des organisations” (Cultural Diversity and Organizational Dynamics), published by the Editor L’Harmattan, Paris. He has served as a member of the Teaching Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. At IESE, Yih-Teen teaches subjects such as leadership, leading global collaboration, self-leadership, leading multicultural teams, and strategic human resource management in the MBA and executive programs.

Prof. Lee has been living and working in Europe for almost 20 years, and identifies himself as a multicultural individual. He is fluent in Chinese, English, French and Spanish and has delivered training programs and seminars to senior executives in all four languages. This exposure, alongside his unyielding passion for various cultures, drives him to embrace diversity and devote his energy to the search of deep-level cultural knowledge and cultural competences, with the goal of contributing to the ability of managers and organizations to navigate global cultures effectively. He sees such development as a transformational journey of each individual and emphasizes the importance of anchoring cultural competences in one’s cultural identities and sense of self.

Prof. Lee earned his PhD from HEC, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from National Taiwan University. Prior to IESE, he taught at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Angers Graduate School of Business ESSCA (France), and the American Graduate School of International Management Thunderbird Europe (France), among others.

Joan Pere is currently the Managing Partner of Human Capital in Deloitte Spain, and he is also the Global CHRO Program leader since January 2026.
With more than 20 years of experience, throughout his professional career he has developed projects in different industries, promoting cross-functionality and diversity in the projects in which he participates.

Joan Pere has expertise in strategic HR planning, HR function transformation, design and implementation of HR processes and procedures, workload analysis and workforce sizing, executive assessment in integration processes (where he also develops impact and transformation projects in Human Resources), review of compensation policies and strategies, executive training, the transformation and implementation of technologies that facilitate the transformation of Human Resources, as well as people development policies and strategies, leadership development and management (leadership programs), all within the scope of talent management. In addition, he has extensive experience in HR Analytics implementation projects, with in-depth knowledge of the subject.

Regarding enabling technologies, Joan Pere is an expert in the strategy and implementation of technological solutions supporting HR transformation (Cloud, Workday, SSSFF, Cornerstone, Oracle, etc.) and mobile applications for managing different areas of HR, accompanying the analysis and definition of processes, implementation, and monitoring of projects. Overall, he is an expert in systems and digitization of HR processes that improve current practices in line with new markets and technological developments, which serves as a support to drive innovation in the solutions proposed.
In addition, he is an external advisor for various companies. He is also an instructor for various internal and external courses at Deloitte.

Ulrich works internationally with leaders, investors, and their teams when it comes to performance, change, cultural complexities, and career transition.

A sports scientist by background, Ulrich has coached, hired and advised leaders and professional athletes across many sectors, and in companies ranging from start-ups to the FTSE 100.

Earlier in his career, Ulrich trained special forces and presented sports news live on radio. Trained as a journalist, executive search & leadership consultant, he spent over three decades asking powerful, thought-provoking questions to leaders and athletes to stimulate reflection, insight, and growth – until the real stories emerged.

Ulrich is an IESE Business School certified Leadership Coach, accredited Coach & Mentor by the EMCC, certified in TalentPredix™ psychometrics, coaches in English and German and holds a degree in Sports & Science (major in Media & Communications) from German Sport University Cologne.

She was born in Spain but has spent time in the US and several countries through Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining White Star Capital, she spent over twenty years in the luxury, consumer, and tech industries, working for the likes of LVMH, Gucci, Prada, Apple HK & China and Lane Crawford Joyce Group, focusing on strategic planning, international business expansion, innovation and global growth. During the last ten years, she has been investing and advising start-ups and scale-ups through VenturaXVentures, with the purpose to create sustainable value by connecting human and financial capital in the areas of consumer tech, sustainability, blockchain and education.

As Chief Catalyst Officer at White Star, her role is to catalyze growth by connecting talented entrepreneurs globally, collaborating across ecosystems with family offices, institutional investors and strategic corporates, and creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.

Estíbalitz Ortiz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit, which provides executive and leadership coaching to global executives and managers participating in IESE educational programs around the world. She has a PhD from IESE, and the topic of her doctoral dissertation was mentoring and coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach and senior practitioner by EMCC.

Most of Ortiz’s professional career has been developed in multinational environments. She worked 10 years in human resources at Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 nationalities.

Since 2008, she has collaborated as a lecturer in International HR Management at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in business schools. She is the author of the book La práctica del mentoring en la empresa (EUNSA, 2003) and co-author and co-editor of the book The 7 Moments of Coaching (REM, 2020).

She is certified in different training and assessment methods like The Leadership Circle and Crucial Conversations.

She is the Director of the IESE Leadership Coaching Program, and she teaches the elective course “Coaching for Peak Performance” in the 2nd year of the MBA program.

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