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Senior Scientific Advisor to GRLI & Emeritus Professor Louvain School of Management. Philippe was a Harvard Faculty Associate from 1958 to 1959 and has spent the majority of his career as a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. His current research centres on business strategy, strategic competitiveness of European companies and senior management roles and attitudes. He has been Secretary of the European Round Table of Industrialists' Education workgroup and has published a large number of books and articles, among them “Should Prometheus Be Bound”. He is member of the International Academy of Management, l'Académie Royale de Belgique, of the Strategic Management Society and board member of several European multinational companies. The inter-university “Philippe de Woot Award” was established in 2010 to promote Corporate Global Responsibility.
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Special Advisor to GRLI
John is an executive coach, consultant, author, lecturer, and former President and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) from 1997-2007. John currently serves on the faculty of the Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, NC (USA), and is co-founder and principal of Leadership Horizons, Inc., an executive coaching and consulting firm. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing (1979). His interest in global sustainability and the environment is longstanding; he co-authored a book, “Ribbon of Sand” (2000), about the ecology and human history of North Carolina’s unique system of barrier islands. He continues his interest in the intersection of leadership and sustainability by serving as a special advisor to the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI). He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on several boards and commissions in the U.S.
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Senior Advisor to GRLI
Nick has a background in social change and human relations, psychology and graduate studies in education. From being a director in public and civil society organisations, Nick co-founded The Oasis School of Human Relations in 1993, a radical experiment in emergent forms of organisation, focused on integrating the theory, practice and experience of 'whole person learning' with individuals, teams, communities and organisations. Nick is consultant for a number of whole organisation deep culture change initiatives, offers 1-1 executive development to CEOs, social entrepreneurs and change agents, and designs processes to develop authentic leadership and engaged inquiry. His most recent publication is entitled 'A Guide to Authentic Collaboration' and focuses on developing relationships fit for the 21st century. He is committed to human scale processes that raise consciousness and value freedom, integrity and deepen our shared humanity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the St. Georges House Leadership Dialogue, a UK initiative engaging influential leaders in developing responsible practice and fulfilled the facilitator role for the General Assemblies of the GRLI for a number of years.
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Björn Larsson
Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive
Björn has a background as economist, journalist and diplomat. Today, CEO of The ForeSight Group, which has worked with some 150 companies over the past 30 years and through its entrepreneurial approach has offered 3.5 million employees opportunities to contribute to corporate innovation and renewal. In 2003 Björn was invited by EFMD to put the ForeSight Approach (principles and processes) to use, to help develop what later became the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative. He served as a member of the core team which ran the initial global process, as well as on the first GRLI Board. Björn is also a member of The Clinton Global Initiative, an Aspen Institute fellow, a senior advisor to the think tanks Global Challenge (Stockholm) and JANERA (New York) and is since the inception a board member and an International Ambassador for The World´s Children´s Prize.
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Advisor
Giselle Weybrecht is the author of ‘The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business’(www.thesustainablemba.com) which introduces sustainability as it relates to the core topics in a business degree. Prior to this she worked for the United Nations internationally in sustainable development. Today she works with government, universities, NGOs, business and with social entrepreneurs in sustainability around the world. She is committed to ensuring that the next generation of business leaders fully understand sustainability by working with business schools and businesses to embed these issues into their programmes. She writes on sustainability and business issues for a variety of publications including the Economist and Forbes and is the author of a blog called PRiMEtime in partnership with PRME which focuses on best practices in management education. Giselle was recently chosen as a London Leader for 2011-2012, working with the City of London to make the capital a more sustainable city.
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Mark DREWELL
Chief Exécutive
GRLI Foundation | Belgium
Tel: +32 2 629 0810 | E-mail: mark.drewell@grli.org
Mark is the father of Francesca (9), Christopher (8), Cassandra (6) and Nicholas (4) and husband to Yolanda who keeps him robustly grounded on a daily basis. Born in the west country of England and the son of a british naval officer and former helicopter test pilot, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford instilled in him a sense of being able to do anything and be anybody, anywhere. Twenty years of business and service to society in South Africa taught him what a powerful force for change business can be and how to enjoy turmoil and change. He has been held up at gunpoint, swum with whales, surfed with Great White sharks and now lives in a forest at the end of a dirt road on top of a hill in Belgium .He always seems to end up leading things and doesn’t really understand why or how that happens.
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Mark DREWELL
Chief Exécutive
GRLI Foundation | Belgium
Tel: +32 2 629 0810 | E-mail: mark.drewell@grli.org
Mark is the father of Francesca (9), Christopher (8), Cassandra (6) and Nicholas (4) and husband to Yolanda who keeps him robustly grounded on a daily basis. Born in the west country of England and the son of a british naval officer and former helicopter test pilot, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford instilled in him a sense of being able to do anything and be anybody, anywhere. Twenty years of business and service to society in South Africa taught him what a powerful force for change business can be and how to enjoy turmoil and change. He has been held up at gunpoint, swum with whales, surfed with Great White sharks and now lives in a forest at the end of a dirt road on top of a hill in Belgium .He always seems to end up leading things and doesn’t really understand why or how that happens.
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