Dr. Randel Carlock

About Randel Carlock

Dr. Randel S. Carlock is the Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership and founding Director of the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He has MA and Executive MBA degrees and his PhD explored fast growing entrepreneurial organizations. Carlock certified in family and marriage therapy at the University of London’s Institute of Psychiatry (1998-99) and has also completed the Art and Practice of Leadership Development (2011) at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Carlock is internationally recognized for his research, teaching and advising on family business, leadership, strategy and governance. Carlock is the author or co-author of five books, articles, chapters, and case studies including When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success with John L. Ward in Spanish, Chinese and Japanese (Macmillan, 2010), Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective with Manfred Kets de Vries and Liz Florent in Arabic, Chinese and Spanish (John Wiley and Sons, 2007), Strategic Planning for the Family Business with John L. Ward (Macmillan, 2003) and Organization Development in Successful Entrepreneurial Firms (Garland Publishing, 1994). Carlock also has written chapters in two edited coaching books, “Leadership Coaching in Family Businesses (2008)” and “Failure in Family Business Coaching (2010).”

Carlock has over 25 years of management and leadership experience serving as a CEO and Chairman of four companies he founded including a NASDAQ listed firm. He advises global business families and corporations on strategy, leadership development, family relationships and governance specializing in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.