The INSEAD Learning Experience

Executive Master in Change at INSEAD

“It was love at first sight, as I adore organizations that stand for something that goes beyond the own interests.”

Olivier Onghena – ‘t Hooft, Founder / Executive Chairman

Since March 2023 I have been on an intense learning journey at one of the world’s finest and most renowned business schools, taking a clear stance to be the business school FOR the world.

It was love at first sight, as I adore organizations that stand for something that goes beyond the own interests.

When you want to be a business school FOR the world, and not, for example, the best one IN the world, you have understood that your noble purpose means something big. And that the intention of the words has to reveal a truly outstanding and unique ambition FOR the world.

It is in that spirit and within that philosophy that I have been investing a lot of my time, my thinking and my emotions in an exceptional program: the Executive Master in Change. The way how I have embarked in and engaged with this program has been about learning – profoundly and with lots of methodology – how to accompany the transformation, for the world, of those leaders that we at GINPI call High Impact Humans (HIHs): individuals who believe that the world needs something more elevated and more elaborated than ‘just’ going for short term profit, financial objectives or traditional KPI’s.

HIHs are leaders who want to take their collectives (their supervisory boards, management boards, family offices, intact global executive teams, governments, parties, organizations, NGO’s, …) to a level of being truly relevant for society.

The EMC learning journey isn’t over yet.
Although the 15 month program came to an end last weekend, myself and my classmates are now on the journey to write a ‘scientifically and societally relevant’ thesis. I am going to write about a theme that is of relevance for all of us. A ‘topic’ or ‘thing’ that is as important as noble purpose. Maybe even more important, who knows! Within a couple of months I’ll share what that is, and how that is relevant I believe also for you and your Life. And that thesis, I wish, will also become a book. So I can share it with the biggest number of people in the world. More info to come! 😉

I am eternally grateful – to the lead faculty Erik van de Loo & Saskia de Maat, the many guest professors, our thesis director Lee White, our program manager Silke Bequet and all the EMC staff, and last but not least my amazing class mates, several of whom became friends or colleagues – for what I have learned about myself, about my strengths and my points of attention, about my thinking and my feeling, and also about the way how people interact with each other, what happens in society, and in organizations, and all that from a systems psychodynamic perspective.

This program has brought me an enormous amount of new insights, theories, models and science to take my work and that of the GINPI’s tribe to a next level. And I am looking forward to what is going to come.