Personal Leadership Skills

Dr. Geert Heling is a senior Management Consultant with extensive experience in training and consultancy. Heading his own company, Médoc MC, his projects focus on Performance Improvement, Management and Organizational Development, and Managing Change.

With an academic background in Cultural Psychology, he has always been intrigued by and practically engaged in International and Cross-Cultural Management.

He combines his consultancy work with a position of Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Maastricht School of Management. Next to this, he also is Distinguished Professor of Practice at TIAS, the Business School of Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He holds the Chair of Organizational Behaviour, Culture and Change.

Geert Heling has travelled the world, consulting, lecturing, conducting workshops, and doing research in many different regions of the world.

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