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Koen Marichal

Function Lecturer leadership & development

Email koen.marichal@ams.ac.be

Phone +32 3 265 4629

Expertise

Leadership
Development

Koen is the founder and driving force of the Antwerp Management School leadership expertise center. This center pioneers authentic and shared leadership of leaders, teams and organizations since 2011. As an author, researcher, speaker, trusted advisor and teacher he contributes to a contemporary interpretation and development of leadership in organizations and society. Koen develops leadership in AMS management programs and is academic director of the Advanced Leadership Program. He also designs and delivers tailor-made leadership tracks and solutions. His innovative vision on leadership development was awarded the 'innovation award' from Antwerp Management School in 2017.

Koen conducts relevant research on specific leadership challenges. From 2015 and 2018 he studied the impact of innovative labor organization on managers. His focus today is on the leadership innovation in education. Koen is co-author of "19 challenging thoughts about leadership" (2013) and "The clothes of the leader" (2017), widely recognized as reference works in the field of leadership. Koen shares his expertise through social media, podcasts, blog posts, opinion articles and white papers. He is the creator of the "19 thoughts about leadership" (four editions) inspiring authentic leadership with the most diverse audiences. During the biennial AMS Leader Gathering he brings leaders together who contribute in their organization and countries to a better world.

Koen is a psychologist and received his master's degree at KU Leuven. He has also been trained as a system and communication therapist. He has 20 years of practical experience in Human Resources Management, of which the last 10 years in an international context. His experience in the operational or complex changes and growth of talent put him on the trail of leadership. In recent years he has developed his own leadership as Warrior for the Human Spirit.

His motto: "We all lead together."

Programs

Master Class Leading from the Middle

Executive Master in Public Governance & Leadership

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Recent publications

Give the public sector the leadership it deserves

"Two feet on the ground, getting people moving. Not waiting for the mandate. Daring to look in the mirror every day. Not the leadership but the effect." These are some testimonies about leadership from the participants of the AMS Masterclass Leadership for the public and social profit sector. Throughout the course, they took the step from "socialized" to "self-authoring": from using social leadership benchmarks to developing their own definition about what is needed and appropriate. A crucial step toward the leaders the public sector needs to properly address today's many challenges.

Public & Social Profit

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Leadership in the healthcare institution

During this final episode of the series "Leadership is everywhere", Koen, Jesse and Sven visit a healthcare facility. They discuss the combination of efficiency and humanity. Is this combination possible? And what is the impact on leadership? Discover the answer in this fifth podcast 'In the care facility'. This podcast is in Dutch.

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Leadership in the butchery

Leadership in the butchery, a bit far fetched? Certainly not! In "In the Butchery," we talk about craftsmanship. Do you have to know a stile to be a good leader? Koen and Jesse talk more about it in the fourth episode of the podcast "Leadership is Everywhere". This podcast is in Dutch.

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Leadership in the home office

Working from home, teleworking, remote working ... these terms are becoming more and more common in a lot of companies. All of them are very interesting for the employee, but how do you deal with this as a manager? What kind of leadership is needed when you no longer see your employees and colleagues on a day-to-day basis? Find out in the third episode of "Leadership is Everywhere". This podcast is in Dutch.

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Leadership on the soccer field

Is the captain of the team also the leader? Research from sports science suggests that this is not always the case. In team sports, players do not always look at the captain as the leader of the team. It seems members of the team have different leadership roles. How does this work? This is episode 2 of the series "Leadership is everywhere". This podcast is in Dutch.

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Leadership at the zoo

Koen Marichal and Jesse Segers share their views and insights on leadership. They talk about the clichés and misconceptions that exist around leadership and about what kind of leadership is needed today in today's society. Starting from events we experience in our daily lives, with every new episode, you will be made even more aware of leadership in your environment, but also your own leadership. After all, leadership is everywhere! This is episode 1 about leadership types in the zoo. This podcast is in Dutch.

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What is the most effective leadership style?

The question of what would be the best leadership behaviors starts from the idea that behaviors are developable and certain behaviors of leaders have more and better effect on employees than others. So if we know which behaviors are effective, then we can teach executives these behaviors and employees will contribute better to the organization. Can it be that simple?

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Shared Leadership as strategy of the future

How do I gain leadership within my organization? It seems to be a simple question, yet at the same time it's like opening Pandora's box. Leadership is one of the most researched topics in management literature, which illustrates the importance as well as the illusiveness of it. The dominant theories are leader-centered, focused on a single moment in time, and unaffected by context. In this blogpost, we advocate for a more integrated and strategic view on leadership. To do so, we focus on the concept of shared leadership as the strategy of the future. This recent theory of leadership is strongly on the rise, has empiric evidence and regards process and function as well as behavior.