Personal Leadership Skills

Professor Geert W.J. Heling PhD is a professional Management Consultant with practical experience in training and consultancy for over 25 years. Heading his own company, Médoc Management Consulting, most of his projects focus on processes of Business Improvement, Management and Organisational Development, Change and Learning. Typical projects range from Organisational Development, Revitalization, Change and Restructuring, Performance Management to Team Training and Coaching. He also conducts internal audits, focusing on Organisational Culture, Employee Satisfaction and Well-being. Clients are mainly large and medium sized organisations, national as well as international, private as well as public sector.

Based on the conviction that practice needs to be coupled with sound theory he combines his consultancy work with a position of Distinguished Professor of Practice in Organisational Behaviour at TIAS, the Business School of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. For more than 20 years he has been Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Maastricht School of Management. As professor and consultant Geert Heling has travelled the world, consulting, training, lecturing, conducting workshops, and doing research in many different countries and cultures.

Philippe is Consultant, Trainer, and Coach in projects that focus on future-proofing organisations, having 30+ years’ of experience and expertise in knowledge & performance management and organisational transformation. While most of his career has been working for or in the private sector, including at world-leading companies in the chemicals and automotive industries, he also completed publicly funded projects a.o. in the PR China and Southern Africa.

Philippe is a adjunct faculty member at United International Business Schools (Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam) and Maastricht School of Management, and occasional visiting lecturer at Business Schools in Europe, Northern Africa, South America, and South-East Asia. His lectures focus on Leadership of High Performing Teams and on Organisational Behaviour. He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on the identification, measurement and management of Intellectual Capital.

Philippe has a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering (Ghent) and in Opto-Electronic and LASER Devices (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh), and obtained his MBA at INSEAD (France). He is Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) at the Institute of Internal Auditors since 1995. He is presently enrolled in a DBA program at United International Business Schools and is writing a dissertation on Leadership & Followership.

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt