Jean Vanhoegaerden

Jean is Professor of Leadership with over 25 years of experience teaching, presenting, and working with companies and groups

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About

Globcon is the company of Jean Vanhoegaerden

For over 35 years, Jean has been teaching, coaching, consulting, and mentoring groups, managers, and executive leaders on how to overcome their most pervasive problems.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Leadership & Practice at Hult Ashridge Business School. He’s also a visiting faculty member at HKUST Hong Kong, London Business School, Henley Business School, and Vlerick Business School. Previously, he’s held visiting professorial appointments at Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in South Africa, and as a part of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in the United States.

Jean loves to discuss the intersections of the functional side of strategic business and people focused approaches. His experience is rooted in his time with the Fortune 100, and industry leader Honeywell. Jean worked as a part of their human resource department as well as a Management Development Manager in Honeywell’s European HQ. Additionally, he worked for a Swedish consultancy group for recruitment, assessment, and coaching throughout different business sectors. And as a research assistant with the Centre for Organisational and Personnel Psychology in Belgium.

Jean holds a Master’s Degree in Organisational and Personnel Psychology and has completed courses at Thunderbird (Global Leadership), Harvard University (Leadership Development), and at Tuck School of Business (Global Leadership).

What can Jean do for you?

Jean then takes his groups on a journey through group discussions about case studies and practical exercises in order to deliver a powerful combination of improved outcomes, effectiveness, and a renewed sense of self in the workplace. Where needed, he also works to recalibrate and promote a healthy work life balance. Because of Jean’s focus specifically on managers, his programmes offer a unique benefit to project teams, departments, and whole of organisation change from their first-hand experiences.

Depending on the requirement, Jean is available for:

Single, two, three, and even four-day workshops
On-site, virtual, and off-site sessions
A variety of needs-based consulting engagements

Programmes & Services

Jean helps build your team or manager’s confidence, professional competencies, leadership styles, and knowledge base. He understands that learning sticks best whenever it is engaging, is interactive, and has real-world applicability. That’s why he includes practical exercises and industry specific insights that are grounded in both research and real-world experiences.

International management:

eg. sessions around globalization, global leadership and managing cross cultural differences on individual, team and organizational level.

Leadership:

eg. psychological aspects of leadership, strategic leadership

Leading change:

eg implementing change and strategy, process of change

Jean speaks regular at in-company conferences around these topics.

Core Competencies:

Assessment

An Ever-Changing Workforce

Organisational Change

Speaking Engagements

Organizational Leadership

SERVICES

Assessment

Jean understands that teaching a group about leading change requires both practical and experiential approaches. The first step in many of the programmes is to learn about oneself. Jean’s participants complete a diagnostic self-assessment to give them personalized insights and a better understanding into their own strengths, needs in the workplace, and their leadership paradigm.

Jean is licensed to use StrengthsFinder and The Kets de Vries Institute’s Organisational Culture Audit (OCA).

An Ever-Changing Workforce

Now more than ever, cross cultural dialogues are occurring across our societies, and the workplace is no different. How a manager or a firm properly navigates this, as well as how they foster an environment of collaboration, promotion of cross-cultural differences, and strengths will determine their future success. Jean has delivered courses, and workshops on “International Leadership and Challenges with Globalisation”, “Global Leadership”, and “How To Cross Culturally Manage on an Individual, Team, and Company Level.”

Organisational Change

Businesses, like people need to adapt and overcome challenges whenever they are presented. How they do that, like people, depends a lot on the decision makers and leaders. Jean has been teaching and consulting on the process of change, and what steps organisations and businesses need to take before they can begin.

Speaking Engagements

Jean has been the keynote speaker and guest for numerous annual business meetings. An experienced speaker and facilitator, he has spoken at TedX events, workshops, and seminars. His current topics of discussion include surviving as a leader in a changing environment, understanding and managing cross cultural differences in a multinational organisation, and leading change.

Insights

Jean works directly with his clients, usually in-house when possible, to diagnose and treat their organisational level problems. He meets with and sources the real pain points in an organisation, or its managers to quickly see how and where improvements can be made. Then he designs customized action plans aimed at addressing their particular challenges in order to facilitate long lasting change.

For his full academic CV, click here.

Feel free to reach out with any questions, inquiries about engagements or speaking events.