Erik van de Loo is an Affiliate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, where he is Co-Founder and Program Co-Director of “The Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change”. He is Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tias School for Business and Society, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has also held the Tun Ismail Abdul Chair of Leadership at UniRazak University in Kuala Lumpur from 2012- 2015. Previously he has held a professorship at the Free University Amsterdam.
He is a partner of Phyleon, Center for Leadership and Change in The Hague, The Netherlands. He helps to create reflective space for leaders and leadership teams in order to become more effective in the interrelated change processes on individual, team and organizational level.
Previously he has worked as a clinical psychologist in the Royal Dutch Army (1981-1984) and as a faculty member at Leiden University (1984 – 1991).
He has published on topics such as the clinical approach to coaching and consultation, organisational change, leadership and corporate governance and boards. His actual research focus is on Board Leadership and Board Dynamics, exploring the interaction between Boards of Executives and Non-Executives in their respective roles at the very top of the organization.
Since 2015 he is a member of the Monitoring Committee Accountancy, overlooking changes and transformations in the accountancy practice in the Netherlands.