Inclusive Leadership: Strengthening Personal Skills and Promoting Gender Equality Inclusive Leadership: Strengthening Personal Skills and Promoting Gender Equality

Dr. Geert Heling
Distinguished Professor of Practice in Organisational Behavior, Culture and Change

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.

For an overview of Geerts publications, click here.

"Thanks to Dr.  Heling, who by the way is a phenomenal speaker, I have gained valuable insights into different arguments, which vary depending on what type of leader you want to be.
Mr. Giuseppe Danesi (Italy), participant of the September 2023 programme

Mulu Burhane Hundera (Ph.D.)

Mulu Hundera has over 15 years of teaching and research experience with a focus on social inclusion, gender, women empowerment, female entrepreneurship, and management. She has carried out several gender analyses, developed gender equality and women empowerment roadmaps for various development projects in developing countries. She has also assisted several gender mainstreaming activities, designed gender policy, and promote women empowerment in higher education and teaching hospitals. In addition, she has engaged in training on topics such as gender equality, women empowerment, gender mainstreaming, female talent development, gender-responsive planning, and gender auditing. Moreover, Mulu has published several articles in high-quality journals in the areas of work-family conflict, gender and social role expectations among female entrepreneurs in developing countries.