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Adriana Seclaman, PhD
            

Adriana Seclaman is a Lecturer at the Maastricht School of Management. Dr. Seclaman holds a PhD in Management from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania) and two Master degrees one focused in Science, Technology and Society from Maastricht University and one from Bucharest University of Economics in Business Administration, Management and Operations. She is an alumna of SDA Bocconi School of Management. In her earlier career, Dr. Seclaman worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Romanian American University, her main research interests lay in the fields of Digital Transformation and Business Strategy, and on Strategic Management and Sustainable Development. 

Mihaela Popescu, MBA
 
Mihaela is a seasoned leader with more than 2 decades of corporate experience in global organisations. She started her journey in Silicon Valley, California where she also graduated from Santa Clara University with a BS in Computer Science. She holds a Professional MBA from University of Florida. Mihaela held several executive roles at DHL, Philips and Kuehne Nagel where she focused on driving digital strategy and led multiple transformation programmes. Mihaela is the founder of CreateGrowth360, a consulting agency focused on empowering leaders and companies with the skills and knowledge required to drive digital transformation & innovation in the rapidly evolving technology landscape. As a woman leader, she is passionate about talent development and has extensive experience leading global diverse teams. She is a consultant and guest lecturer at MSM and speaks at conferences on diversity, organizational culture and transformation

Strategic Leadership

Mr. Leo Kerklaan
Lecturer Strategic Performance Management

Leo Kerklaan is strategic performance management expert, teacher and writer. His strategic work has spanned business cases in most industries and in many regions of the world, assisting with both continuing plans and one-off challenges. Leo studied Law (The Hague Business School) and Economics (Amsterdam University). He gained long years of management experience as: Operations Manager (Netherlands Postal Bank), Quality Assurance Manager (Fokker Aircraft), and Training and Development Manager (Fokker Aircraft).

Leo’s consulting assignments include both the recovery of strategies and the implementation of strategic performance management. Leo’s passion is to bring the organisation of his clients to higher performance levels based on continuous improvement practices.

Leo is a frequent lecturer at MSM and has executed over 50 missions in various countries like Tanzania, Ethiopia, Yemen, Suriname, Indonesia, Vietnam and Rwanda.

Change Management

Dr. Geert Heling
Distinguished Professor of Practice in Organizational 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.