Change Management

Oliver W. Olson was one of the founders of Maastricht School of Management Romania and was that school’s first Dean and Academic Director.

He has served as the Academic Director for the creation of the International Academy of Retail Banking, a division of the London based Lafferty Group. He has previously been the Country Manager for CEU Business School, Romania, and has held various roles at CEU Business School in Budapest serving as the MBA Program Director and Director of Degree Programs Administration. Prior to joining the CEU Business School, Mr. Olson started his professional career as an Export Product Manager for Salamander Shoes in Stuttgart, Germany in the 90’s. He then moved to the USA where he worked in banking for almost a decade, including stints as Assistant Vice President at Bank of America, Senior Manager for a major credit card company and the CIO of a community bank in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Olson earned his Undergraduate Degree in International Business and German from California State University, Fullerton and his MBA from the University of Texas, Dallas. He is fluent in German and can hold his own in Swedish and Romanian. Oliver is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Sandra is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the private and non-profit sectors, seamlessly transitioning into academia. She started her academic credentials at Maastricht University where she got a degree in innovation and change management. However, as a lifelong learner, she has earned an Executive Leadership certificate from Oxford University, an Executive  degree from MIT Sloan School of Business, and completed an Executive Strategic Management course at Maastricht University.

Sandra’s career highlights her ability to connect technological innovation with strategic leadership. At a global ICT organisation company, she led the shift to one of the first global automated webshops, achieving significant operational efficiencies. At a major Dutch bank, she developed an innovative mortgage platform that centralized processes and boosted revenue. Her work in healthcare further demonstrates her strategic acumen, advising management boards on strategic market positioning and organizational change.

At MSM, Sandra has spent the past decade on integrating strategic business development, international consultancy, and academic teaching. She lectures on change management, executive leadership, and team development while managing global Erasmus+ projects and Nuffic-funded initiatives.

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.