Scientist and practitioner with decades of experience in industry as executive and consultant, Marc van der Erve holds a BSc in Applied Physics cum laude and a PhD in Sociology from Tilburg University. He followed senior management programs at both INSEAD and IMD. He is founder of The Emzine Collective, a free association of leaders of science and society. Marc is regularly invited to address audiences on matters ranging from leadership to our ability to foretell and guide the evolution of societal phenomena—from nation states to business organizations. After unraveling the physics of organization, he showed how to predict the rise and decline of organization in Nature and society. In his recent philosophical novel, To Be Or To Become, he explains reality as a wholly behavioral (rather than material) phenomenon, a view that promises dramatic improvements in the way we run our world. His research typically explores the practical and the philosophical on the crossroads where the natural and social sciences meet. Architect of iEmzine, the first true iPad App for leaders, Marc currently works on his new book: The Next Paradigm Shift – What will shape the third millennium? He lives in both South Africa and Europe.

Leadership

Managing the evolution of organizations

What will shape the third millennium

Involving audience up-front

Example-driven

Not just how but also why

To become a better leader, a better consultant

To understand how organizations, nations evolve

To get a perspective of the third millennium

Examples of evolving leadership

Examples of how organizations, nations evolve

Why we cannot build organizations that last

Parallels with organization in Nature

How to select the best leader for the job

How to improve the management-team mix

What the management process will include in the future

What leadership ethos is about tomorrow

What will shape the third millennium

One’s leadership comfort zone and leadership role

How to create winning management teams

What makes organizations tick (and fail eventually)

A more in-depth perspective of societal cycles

Leader versus organization: Who is leading who?

An understanding of what will shape the third millennium

A more integrative understanding of our world

A more integrative understanding of leadership and organization

Understanding of the practical as well as the fundamental

Enlightenment

A new sense of purpose

A better insight into the process of Nature

A more distinct sense of direction