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Leaders Emerging From Collective Trauma: Journeys of Transgenerational Healing

Author(s) : Lara A. Tcholakian, Editor : Erik van de Loo

About the Author(s)

Lara A. Tcholakian, PhD, is a Canadian-Armenian executive and visiting scholar at Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), and professor at Matena’s School of Leadership and Professional Development (Armenia). She teaches, publishes, and conducts research on topics that intersect with leadership, collective traumas, systems psychodynamic approaches to leadership, and mindfulness. For more than twenty-five years, she held leadership positions in international non-governmental organisations and the corporate sector, primarily in the areas of socio-economic project development, capacity building, gender rights, organisational development, and HR, and has lived and worked in Canada, France, Peru, Sri Lanka, and Armenia. A published scholar and international speaker, she holds a doctorate in organisational behaviour from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s School of Business and Economics, a master’s degree in socio-economic development from Université Paris 1—Panthéon-Sorbonne, an executive master’s degree in consulting and coaching for change from INSEAD, and a bachelor’s degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 2025, she became the founding partner of Elevate, a social enterprise that advances leadership, systemic transformation, and peace-positive business.

Erik van de Loo, PhD in social sciences, Leiden University, is a psychoanalyst and affiliate professor of organi sational behaviour at INSEAD (Europe Campus, Fontainebleau), where he has been the co-director of the executive master’s in change programme since 2001.

Previously, he had professorships at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, TIAS-Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and UniRazak University (Malaysia). He is a fellow of Phyleon, a leadership and governance firm in Amsterdam. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society, and the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. The focus of his research is on unconscious dynamics in leaders and boards.