Leading From Behind

Dirk is an international expert in leading high impact change with a particular emphasis on large system interventions, leadership development, family systems theory and organizational learning. Dirk works with clients in a range of different industries, including Financial Services, FMCG, Professional Service Firms, Retail, Energy, Process Industry and Education. His interventions are minimalistic and strive to evolve ownership and responsibility from the first moment onwards. He is strong in helping senior leaders build trust among one another and throughout the organization, while at the same time building a high-performing climate of challenge and drive for execution. Dirk guides senior leaders and their teams to achieve robust strategic impact. His expertise includes personal and team guidance, an integrated approach of strategy and leadership development, high impact execution power, intercultural cooperation and strategic breakthrough innovation. He focuses on helping leaders shift the core of the organizational DNA towards sustainable high performance. Dirk Devos is senior consultant from Courage11, an international consultancy that specializes in transformational leadership.

Manon de Wit is an international expert in leading high impact change, coaching and communication, focused on increasing collective leadership and business performance of individuals, terms and organizations. She has a passion for enabling leaders to develop their unique and most impactful leadership style. She is particularly skilled at coaching and facilitating diverse groups and individuals. She coaches C-level executives and senior leaders with major global companies. Her goal is to get the best out of individuals and teams to create breakthroughs in business performance. Her deep belief is that courageous conversations, feedback/feedforward and co-creation will lead to the best result. Dialogic skills are crucial in this process ad this has her special attention. Manon believes that there is a significant untapped potential in each individual and in every team. She starts by taking a deep dive into patterns of behaviour. Her coaching is to the point, insightful, inspiring and energizing, based on the systematic human needs: bonding, order and balance. Manon’s coaching is all about accelerating and deepening personal growth, beyond what people have thought possible. The outcome is an enriched set of functional patterns of behaviour, while Mao also helps individuals and teams get rid of their dysfunctional patterns and increase personal resilience. In order to get there, she creates awareness of defence mechanisms and personal masks. Manon de Wit is senior consultant from Courage11, an international consultancy that specializes in transformational leadership.

Robert Lubberding is an international expert in leading business transformation. His core area of expertise includes executive coaching, teambuilding, culture change, leadership development, talent management, change management, organisational governance, programme management and strategy execution. Robert Lubberding was partner at several professional services firms, where he was responsible for the People and Change practice, locally and internationally. Robert guides senior leaders and their teams in creating high strategic impact. He combines strategy and leadership development in change approaches that align and engage people in the organisation and focuses on building a leadership capability that fosters a culture of high performance and getting things done. In his consulting work, Robert also draws on his personal and practical experience of leading his own practices and being a member of the Management Board in Consulting firms through upturns and downturns for more than two decades. He worked on major change programmes for a wide variety of companies in Europe and America. Industries include amongst others: Education, Engineering, Financial Services, FMCG, Manufacturing, Professional Service Firms, Process Industry and Retail. Robert Lubberding is senior consultant from Courage11, an international consultancy that specializes in transformational leadership.