Consultant for executives facing conflicting objectives
I work with executives and top management teams whose initiatives stall because legitimate demands contradict each other. For more than twenty years, I led organisations through transformation and restructuring in leadership roles at C-level and SVP level, including at Kelkoo, XING, Betsson and DERTOUR. Today I research the cognitive foundations of how leaders navigate paradoxes in organisations, in my Executive PhD at Antwerp Management School.
Image: Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash 🎓 PhD Journey 🏫 Business School For the busy C-suite executive, the “what” of leadership development is often a revolving door of trendy frameworks and anecdotal advice. However, the “why” is more...
🎓 PhD Journey 🔬 Academia WHY THIS MATTERS TO YOU AS A C-LEVEL EXECUTIVE You’ve likely sensed it during high-stakes board meetings: some executives read the room differently. They anticipate market shifts others miss. They navigate organizational complexity with...
Image: Photo by Maddi Bazzocco on Unsplash 🎓 PhD Journey Why Executives Need What Business Schools Don’t Teach Business schools build analytical thinkers. Digital complexity demands something more: pattern recognition in ambiguity, temporal mastery under...
Image: Geoff Brooks via Unsplash 💼 Consultancy What This Means for Your Leadership If you’re navigating digital transformation, strategic uncertainty, or complex organisational change, you need more than another consultant with an MBA and five years of...
Image: Gustavo A. Perez via Unsplash 🎓 PhD Journey 💼 Consultancy 🏫 Business School When academia knocked on my door in mid-2025, I was fresh off two decades of C- and management-level leadership in companies like XING and Nokia—places where big decisions happened...
