15th ABIS Annual Colloquium 2016

Time for a Change and a new Agenda in Education, Learning & Talent Development

Doug Baillie

Born in Zimbabwe, Doug joined Unilever 38 years ago as a management trainee in South Africa. He served as Chief HR Officer of Unilever from February 2011 until retirement earlier this year. Between these two milestones, the wealth of the various positions held by Doug is astonishing- Managing Director for Lever Pond in South Africa; National Manager for Unilever South Africa; Regional Liaison Member for Africa, Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey; Vice President, Home and Personal Care for the Africa Business Group; President, Africa Regional Group; Group Vice-President – Africa, Middle East & Turkey (AMET); Group Vice-President – South Asia; President, Western Europe. Next to his great work at Unilever, Doug joined ABIS in 2015 as Chair of the organization's Advisory Board

Paul Begley

Paul leads the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s customised programmes portfolio. Paul has overseen the internationalisation of the portfolio and has delivered programmes in Brazil, India and Singapore. Prior to CISL, Paul worked at the think-tank AccountAbility where he provided research and advisory for clients such as the European Commission, Microsoft and State Grid. He ran the King Khalid Award for Responsible Competitiveness, a prestigious annual award and capacity-building programme for companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and also led the production of the first corporate citizenship review for the world’s largest company. Paul is a competitive cyclist and has run five marathons and an ultramarathon.

Anthony Carey

Anthony Carey is a partner and leads the board practice in the UK. He also takes an active role in thought leadership issues and public interest issues related to the profession especially in the areas of corporate responsibility and human rights.

Anthony is actively involved in Mazars’ Business. For Good initiative, is co-author of Mazars’ Board Charter for Sustainable Success and co-developed the firm’s Board Polarities model. He is also a lead for the Centre for Audit Committee and Investor Dialogue, a joint initiative between Mazars and a number of leading institutional investors.

Anthony is a chartered accountant and chartered director and is an experienced facilitator of board effectiveness reviews across a range of sectors, including financial services.

He is a member of the FRC Financial Reporting Lab Steering Group and also serves on the executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance. He is a past member of the FRC’s Financial Reporting Review Panel and was project director for the original Turnbull Report dealing with risk management and internal control.

Luke Disney

Luke Disney is the Executive Director of the INSEAD Centre for Social Innovation.

Prior to joining INSEAD Luke spent 13 years as a social intra/ entrepreneur, first as part of the ground-breaking partnership between the United Nations World Food Programme and TNT Express which focused on fighting global hunger. Later he became the Founding Executive Director of North Star Alliance, an award-winning social enterprise uniting more than 180 governments, businesses and civil society actors in an innovative approach to reaching highly mobile populations in Sub-Saharan Africa with essential healthcare services to help stop the spread of HIV and other communicable diseases across the continent.

Luke is Co-Founder of WorkPact, advisor to the World Healthcare Forum, a member of the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Business and Economics, and a member of the steering committee for Stadsklooster Utrecht.

Luke holds Canadian/Irish nationality and has worked in Europe, North America and Africa. He has an MSc. in European and International Politics from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and a BA in politics and economics from Dalhousie University (Canada). He speaks English, Dutch, Spanish and French. Luke enjoys running, playing guitar, good wine and great conversation.

Sherif Hassane

Kai Hockerts

Kai Hockerts is Professor in Social Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). In his function as Academic Director of Responsible Management Education he is also leading the CBS curriculum change initiative which currently reviews all 19 bachelor study programs with the goal of anchoring responsible management education across the curriculum.

Kais primary research focus is on corporate sustainability strategies and social entrepreneurship. Kai holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of St. Gallen (CH). Before joining CBS Kai was Adjunct Professor at INSEAD (F). His research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, International Review of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Strategy and the Environment.

Patrick Hull

Gary Kildare

Gary Kildare serces as Vice President of Human Resources at IBM Europe. Mr. Kildare was appointed to his first leadership role in 1989 as HR Leader for IBM's Software Research and Development Laboratory in Winchester. His career then led him to IBM's Corporate Headquarters as Director of Compensation for the US, Latin America and Canada and then to the positions of Global Compensation Leader and Director of Global HR Strategy. He returned to Europe in October 2002 to the role of Vice President and Chief HR Officer for IBM Global Business Services for Europe. He has a particular interest in major international business transformation, acquisitions, talent and change management.

Dean Van Leeuwen

Dean has over 20 years professional experience working at leading financial service companies as well as at McKinsey, a global management consultancy.He majored in economics and law and has a master’s degree in business strategy from Henley Management College in the U.K. He is the author of Quest: Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century, a international keynote and TEDx speaker, leadership and strategy consultant.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1969, the year Apollo 11 landed on the moon and the famous musical festival Woodstock took place, Dean grew up experiencing first hand the dramatic revolution from apartheid to democracy.‘South Africa changed an incredible amount during my formative years. This helped me develop and agile and inquisitive mind,’ says Dean. He always strives to look at things differently, figuring out what is broken and how it can be fixed. A keen cyclist and scuba diver he has travelled the world, photographed Minke whales for a research team off the Great Barrier Reef and raised money for charity by cycling across the beautiful wilderness of Madagascar. Today he lives in Surrey Hills near Guildford, England with his wife and their toddler son.

Each year Dean speaks and works with thousands of business leaders around the world. He regularly lecturers on executive leadership programmes run by CEDEP and the London Business School on the subjects of leadership, future trends and strategy.

Dean is a successful entrepreneur having started TomorrowToday UK and is now a co-founding partner of TomorrowToday Global, a futurist and leadership development consultancy that has delivered strategic leadership insights in over 50 countries for the past 15 years.

Jens Meyer

Dean of Programs at CEDEP (Executive Education Institute on the INSEAD campus) and Professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France) and the School of Apllied Science in Worms (Germany); Co-founder of Strategy Regeneration Ltd., Co-founder of the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT) at INSEAD.

Jens is a teacher, coach and consultant specializing in strategic innovation and the challenge of leading incumbents to embrace new perspectives on doing business. Examples can be found in a variety of industries such as Retail, Telecommunication, Publishing, Financial Services, Automotive and Chemicals.

Jens has been a member of the BOS network since the early days. He has been instrumental in the creation of a variety of Blue Ocean Strategy & Value Innovation classroom or practice curricula. Many of them have found application in other development institutions.

Mirjam Minderman

Ms Minderman’s background is in International Relations with a specialization in the position of developing countries. When working with Oikocredit in the field of microfinance, fair trade and responsible investing, she became convinced that development cooperation would not be effective unless the broader notion of sustainable development is taken into account. Thus, her focus shifted more and more towards sustainability and CSR and specifically training and education on these issues. She provided training to executives of Dutch development organizations for several years and then started to work for the Faculty of Management and Business of University of Applied Sciences Leiden. She developed and implemented the faculty’s policy on education for sustainable development and developed and coordinated ‘International Sustainable Development, post-graduate course for professionals in business and society’.

Currently she combines theory and practice of Management and Business Education for Sustainable Development by working on her PhD research and by working at TIAS School for Business and Society. At TIAS, it is her task to develop and implement a coherent policy for the integration of ‘Business and Society’ in all programs and to develop education and provide lectures related to ‘Business and Society’ and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Petra Molthan Hill

Dr. Petra Molthan-Hill is leading the HEA Green Academy 'Food for Thought' Project for Nottingham Trent University. The project is focused on developing teaching methods that can embed sustainability into various disciplines, from Business Studies through Medieval History to Astrophysics, including the Sustainability in Practice Certificate that was shortlisted for the Green Gown Awards 2014.

She is also Principal Lecturer in Business Sustainability at Nottingham Business School, and as NBS Sustainability Coordinator is responsible for embedding sustainability and business ethics into the curriculum of the business school. Her main research interest has been how and why managers engage with sustainability differently, taking the international perspective into account.

Recently, Petra has won the Guardian University Award 2015 in Business Partnership for her Greenhouse Gas Management Project. This project was delivered together with Jerome Baddley from Nottingham Energy Partnership Investors in the Environment (iiE) network, and with support from the Nottingham Trent University Future Factory project, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

Anita Negri

Anita Negri is the President of oikos, an international youth-driven organization for sustainability in education, economics and management. Founded in 1987, oikos seeks to empower young leaders. Ms. Negri manages 45 oikos Chapters around the world, in conjunction with the global community of oikos alumni, faculty, and partners, as well as an international team based in Switzerland. Ms. Negri is also External Advisor to the UNPRME, and External Advisor to the Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Innovations HK. As a Maastricht University graduate, Ms. Negri has always had a passion for education, sustainability leadership and HR development.

Jan Noterdaeme

Jan Noterdaeme, Co-Founder in 1996 of CSR Europe, a Network of 100 corporate members and National Partner Organisations engaging 10.000 enterprises across Europe on Corporate Social Responsibility. Jan now acts as Senior Advisor H External Relations for CSR Europe and as Maître de Conférence at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Jan first worked for the Secretariat General of the European Council on Migration and Asylum before moving to the European Commission Directorate General on Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs where (1) he operated in the “European Poverty Program” and (2) coordinated the relations with large NGO communities. On behalf of the cabinet of President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, Jan is the co-author with businesses of the European Business Declaration against Social Exclusion launched in 1995 in response to Jacques Delors’ 1993 Appeal to business leaders. This Declaration has set the foundations of CSR Europe in 1996 under the coordination of Jan and Ann Vandenhende. In 1999, Jan paved the way for policy and business leaders to “negotiate” a new Appeal of European Heads of State and Governments on CSR (March 2000). This new Appeal, echoed by CSR Europe’s Campaign on CSR, is considered as the milestone for the EU Strategy on CSR. On behalf of CSR Europe, Jan cofounded, the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR. Jan played an active role in the EC Expert Group and in the EU Trialogue negotiations on the EU Directive on NonFinancial Transparency of Enterprises (April 2014). In 2008, Jan initiated the process towards CSR Europe’s current flagship “Enterprise 2020” in support to Europe’s Strategy 2020. Through “Enterprise 2020” enterprises and stakeholders are engaging in collaborative projects related to skills and jobs, sustainable living in cities and transparency and human rights. Most recently he initiated for CSR Europe and with the European Commission, the European Pact for Youth. As from 1997 Jan played a leading role in the establishment by business leaders and deans of universities and business schools of what is now the Academy of Business in Society (ABIS). Since March 2007, Jan is Maître de Conférence at the Catholic University of Louvain where he cofounded with Professor Valérie Swaen the Louvain CSR Network. Since 2010, Jan is chairing the Stakeholder Jury of the Philippe'de'Woot International InterLUniversity Award on CSR.

Mollie Painter-Morland

Professor Painter-Morland joined NTU to stimulate and contribute to the Business School's research on responsible and sustainable business practice. She teachers responsible leadership, ethics and accountability in its core postgraduate programmes and contributes to the integration of ethics across the undergraduate curriculum. She facilitates the School's relationships with external networks in sustainability and ethics, and participates in executive development programmes and consultancy activities in this area.

Professor Painter-Morland was previously a tenured Associate Professor in Business Ethics at DePaul University in Chicago and Associate Director of DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Prior to joining DePaul in 2004, she was Director of the Centre for Business and Professional Ethics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Associate Professor in its Department of Philosophy. She maintained a part-time position at the University of Pretoria between 2005-2011, and remains active in consultancy services globally. Professor Painter-Morland has been a visiting professor at ESCP Europe (Paris); EDHEC, Lille; IAE, Aix-en-Provence.

Maury Peiperl

Professor Maury Peiperl joined Cranfield University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Director of Cranfield School of Management on 1 February 2015.

Prior to Cranfield, he was Professor of Leadership and Strategic Change at IMD in Switzerland, where he developed and directed numerous executive development courses and held a variety of administrative roles.

Before becoming a professor he worked for IBM, Merrill Lynch and LEK Consulting and as a research fellow at Harvard Business School. From 1992 to 2004, he was a professor at London Business School. He has also held affiliate appointments at MIT (USA), University of Maryland (USA), HEC (France) and Templeton College, Oxford. 

Maury Peiperl holds a BS in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA, AM and PhD from Harvard University.

His areas of research interest are top management learning, executive careers, change management, talent strategy and global mobility. He has taught, researched and consulted in these areas in some 30 countries on five continents.

Outside his teaching and research, Maury sits on the boards of several companies, as well as the UK anti-trafficking charity, HERA, and the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Kaisu Puumalainen

Annemieke Roobeek

Kosheek Sewchurran

Kosheek Sewchurran is an associate professor in Innovation Management and Information Systems at the UCT Graduate School of Business and director of the Executive MBA programme. He is interested in research that acknowledges the realities of a postmodern or complexity paradigm.

Luk Van Wassenhove

Professor Van Wassenhove's research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, quality, continual improvement and learning. His recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). He is senior editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and departmental editor for Production and Operations Management. He publishes regularly in Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and many other academic as well as management journals (like Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review). He is the author of many award-winning teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations. In 2005, Professor Van Wassenhove was elected Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). In 2006, he was the recipient of the EURO Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement. In 2009 he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society (MSOM), and received the Lifetime Achievement Faculty Pioneer Award from the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and the Aspen Institute. In 2013 he became Honorary Fellow of the European Operations Management Association (EUROMA). He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences. Before joining INSEAD he was on the faculty at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. At INSEAD he holds the Henry Ford Chair of Manufacturing. He created the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and acted as academic director until September 2010. He currently leads INSEAD’s Humanitarian Research Group.