"I was never trained for this!" | Hannes Leroy | TEDxErasmusUniversityRotterdam

Where are we in our quest for better leadership development? There is good news and bad news. The good news is that we have a lot of leaders eager to learn and get better and a lot of people dedicated to helping leaders develop. The bad news? At this stage, leadership development is often described as a Wild West - Shoot first, ask questions later! But it doesn’t need to be like that, as I said, the science is there, we have 100 years of research that highlights what works and what doesn’t, how do we use those insights in practice? Hannes Leroy, Associate Professor in Leadership Development.
As Academic Director of the Erasmus Center of Leadership, Hannes helps to oversee the quality of
leadership development at different levels in Erasmus University (undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and executive education). Furthermore, as steward of the League of Leadership initiative
he helps to oversee an international consortium of top business schools across the world with the
mission of collectively enhancing quality standards of leadership development. A special interest of
Hannes is authentic leadership and its development.
Aligned with these efforts, Hannes has published numerous studies on leadership and its
development in top journals (e.g., Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management
Discoveries, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management), has taught a wide variety of
leadership classes (e.g., Becoming a Leader, Team Leadership, Leaders as Climate Engineers,
Strategic Leadership, Power and Politics) and is principal coordinator of various leadership
development curricula (i.e, MBA, EMBA, Executive Education). He has worked with various
organizations to help improve leadership models and curricula (e.g., Colruyt, Securex). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx