Stanislav Shekshnia

About Stanislav Shekshnia

Dr. Shekshnia is an Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and a Program Director at INSEAD Global Leadership Center at Fontainebleau. His research concentrates on leadership, leadership development and effective governance at emerging markets and organizations.

Stanislav Shekshnia is a senior partner at Howell Zest Talent Equity consultancy, which has offices in Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Alma-Aty. He concentrates on leadership, leadership development, corporate governance and business in emerging economies.

Between 1991 and 2002, Stanislav Shekshnia held positions of CEO of Alfa-Telecom, President and CEO, Millicom International Cellular, Russia and CIS, Chief Operating Officer of VimpelCom, Director of Human Resources, Central and Eastern Europe of Otis Elevator.

He served as Chairman of SUEK, Vimpelcom-R and a board member of a number of Russian and international companies. Currently Stanislav is an independent director at DTEK BV, Ilim Timber Industry and Ener1.

Dr. Shekshnia is the author, co-author, or editor of 7 books, including “Coaching: How to manage free people” (2010), “The New Russian Business Leaders” (2004 with M. Kets de Vries, K. Korotov, E. Florent-Treacy), Corporate Governance in Russia (2004, edit. with S. Puffer and D. McCarthy).

His articles appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Executive, The European Management Journal, Harvard Business Review Russia, Harvard Business Review Germany, Journal of West-East Business, Case Research Journal, California Management Review, Compensation and Benefits Review, Journal of Management Inquiry, The International Executive, L’Expansion Management Review, Russian business daily Vedomosty, Expert Management, Personnel Management, Personnel Mix, Kariera and Kompania magazines.