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Theo Compernolle

Independent international consultant, coach, trainer, lecturer and key-note speaker.

Dr Theo Compernolle, born in Bruges, Belgium (1946), is an independent international consultant, coach, trainer, lecturer and key-note speaker. He does this in English, Dutch and French.

He is an expert on the emotional and relational aspects of leadership and the enhancement of resilience of executives, executive teams and organizations, especially in times of stress and change.

He is a former Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development at the Solvay Business School, Adjunct Professor at large at INSEAD, Visiting Professor at the Vlerick School for Management and Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam.

He teaches or coaches in the executive programs of business schools such as at INSEAD (France), the Vlerick Leuven Ghent School for Management of the universities of Gent and Leuven in Belgium and the TIAS business school in Tilburg (Netherlands). He is a co-founder and president of the (Belgian) Institute for Family Businesses. Theo has been doing research on stress since 1976.

As an expert on the emotional and relational aspects of leadership, he intervenes on:

• enhancing the resilience of individual executives: individual coaching, group coaching or workshops
• enhancing the resilience of executive teams, management teams and boards: team coaching
• enhancing the resilience of organizations: strategy focused stress management
• prevention and management of conflict and dysfunction at the top
• prevention and management of relational and emotional problems during times of change: mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations
• prevention and management of relational and emotional problems in family businesses: among others during transitions from one generation to the other.

He consulted, taught and coached executives and entrepreneurs on these subjects in a wide range of (multi)national companies, service professional firms, teaching and training institutions. He developed a unique, efficient approach to stress-management, taking stress management out of the hands of consultants/helping professionals and putting in the hands of the only people who can realize its impressive Return on Investment: those of managers.

He published several books (two best sellers) and more than a hundred scientific articles.

His book "STRESS: FRIEND AND FOE. Vital Stress Management at work and in the family" became a management best-seller and long-seller and so did the video’s/DVD’s based on it. He recently published "How to be successful as a family with a business"(in Dutch).

He was a manager himself as the director of several inpatient and outpatient departments (ao. reorganized a department and started two very successful greenfield operations).

He earned a Ph.D. on his stress-research at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He is certified as a psychotherapist and as medical specialist in neuropsychiatry, psychotherapy and rehabilitation. He specialized 1 year at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 3 years at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and 2 years at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), where he was a fellow. He graduated as a Medical Doctor at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

www.compernolle.com