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In deze aflevering van 48 Minutes praat ik met Joost Callens.  Joost is de CEO en voorzitter van het bouwbedrijf Durabrik.  Daarnaast zetelt hij in de raden van bestuur van Mixx, Alides, Mathieu Gijbels, Itam, en Vlaamse Confederatie Bouw, en is hij voorzitter van de raad van bestuur van Konekt. Hij is stichter van het sociaal impact fonds Toontjeshuis, geïnspireerd op zijn zoon Toontje, waarmee h...

Welcome to another episode of 48 Minutes. Our guest today is Dirk Brossé. Dirk is an internationally acclaimed conductor and award-winning composer. He is currently Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Music Director of the Ghent Film Festival and has guest-conducted many top orchestras, all over the world, among them, the London Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Hong Ko...

Welcome to another episode of 48 Minutes. Our guest today is Ronnie Leten.  Ronnie is the former CEO of the global industrial player Atlas Copco with headquarters in Stockholm, but active in more than 180 countries and employing almost 40000 employees . He has also served as chairman of the board at Electrolux. Today Ronnie is a board member at SFK Group and serves as the Chairman at Epiroc, Piab...

Welcome to another episode of 48 Minutes. Our guest today is Marc Bogaerts. Marc is an international choreographer with over 800 productions on his counter. He has designed choreographies for amongst others Cirque du Soleil, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Hooverphonic, Pragha Khan, Washington Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.  Besides that, he has countless of other artistic projects ongoing whic...

Welcome to another episode of 48 Minutes.   Today we are honored to introduce to you someone with a truly unique and inspiring life story. Olivier Onghena - ‘T Hooft, a noble purpose entrepreneur and the founder of the Global Inspiration & Noble Purpose Institute and Wisdom Encounters. He has dedicated his life to inspire CEOs, entrepreneurs and political leaders around the globe to serve the...

In this episode I talk to David Dessers, the Founder of Cresco Law Firm and author of the book “Innovate, Collaborate, Grow”.  Cresco is an innovative, entrepreneurial and somewhat pioneering firm in the Belgian legal market. They mainly serve entrepreneurs, companies and investors. I talked with David about his book, his routines to stay balanced and growth.

Our guest today is Theo Vaes, one of the most inspiring social entrepreneurs I know. Theo is the founder and driving force behind ArmenTekort , which is a social organisation in my hometown, Antwerp, that focuses on multi-generational poverty.  They believe self-esteem is key in solving this problem and therefore they launched a buddy network in which underprivileged people are matched with privil...

A couple of weeks ago, we had the opportunity to interview Pablo Pantaleoni. Pablo is the Vice President of Global Strategy & New Ventures at Headspace, the meditation app which has been downloaded more than 62 million times in 190 different countries.  He has achieved many great things.  Before he joined Headspace, he was the Senior Director of Health & Venture Design at IDEO.  IDEO is a...

Sihame El Kaouakibi is thé power house of the Belgian political scene. Last year she was elected as member of the Flemish Parliament for the liberal party.  Before going into politics she was mainly known as a social entrepreneur. At age 22 she founded Let’s Go Urban , a social organisation that organises art and street culture workshops for urban youngsters in order to help them thrive in life. S...

Pierre Marcolini is the founder of the so-called Maison Pierre Marcolini. At the age of 14 already Pierre knew he wanted to become a chocolatier and started his education. He did several internships with famous chocolate houses like Wittamer and Fouchon. In 1995 he won the World Patisserie Championship in Lyon after which he opened his first atelier in Belgium. 25 years later The Maison has 40 sto...

Raissa de Haas is one of the Dutch twin sisters behind Double Dutch, the immensely popular premium mixer brand. Both sisters studied economics at the University of Antwerp where they regularly threw parties for friends. Frustrated by the low excitement level and quality of the usual mixers that go along with spirits like Gin, they started making their own mixers. A hobby became a passion and a few...

In this podcast I talk to Pierre Gurdjian. I know Pierre from my previous job at McKinsey, where at that time he was the Managing Partner of the Belgium - Luxembourg offices. He also held international responsibility for McKinsey’s Human Capital practice in EMEA. In this capacity, he served his clients on building personal and institutional leadership capabilities. He was regularly involved in cou...

Today we have the honour to have John Porter, the CEO of Telenet, as our guest. John has an incredible track record in the media & telco industry spanning more than 3 decades. In 1994 he was recruited to start Austar, a subscription television business in Australia. This turned out to become one of his most remarkable accomplishments as he led the company from a start-up to a $2.5b public comp...

Olivier Vanden Eynde is one of Belgian's most inspiring people in the sustainability scene. He was a Director at Deloitte in Sustainability Services but is foremost also the founder and managing director of Close The Gap. What started as a student project has evolved to an international social enterprise that aims to bridge the digital divide by offering high-quality, pre-owned computers dona...

In this eight’ episode we have a very special guest in our podcast. His name is Mo Gawdat.  After running Google’s offices in more than 50 countries, Mo served as the Chief Business Officer of Google [x] also known as “The Moonshot Factory”. At Google [x] he contributed significantly to the operation model, that is now considered as the golden standard in technology innovation around the world. Bu...

In this episode we interview Roland Slot, one of our absolute role models. Roland is the founder of Aberkyn, a leadership development and coaching company which he founded with and recently sold to McKinsey & Co. Roland started his career at Shell with the goal of being successful (and make a lot of money), then got to the insight that he was not on his path. He started a spiritual path of sel...

Today we have one Belgium's youngest CEOs in our podcast. He is an entrepreneur and innovator who has been recognized as one of Belgium’s next generation business leaders. His career trajectory is quite out of the ordinary. He studied hospitality management to then join Delhaize and become the youngest store manager ever at the age of 22. He then jumped into the world of logistics, taking on...

Sebastien Bellin is a Brazilian-Belgian former professional basketball player who played in the top European leagues for over 15 years. On 22 March 2016, he got severely injured in the Brussels Airport terrorist bombings, where he almost lost both legs and near to 50% of his total blood volume. This accident left him unable to walk let alone continue his basketball career. His positive attitude to...

Today we are in day 4 of the Corona lockdown and for that reason we are experimenting with remote podcast technology. It is a bit unfortunate because our guest, Jamie Anderson, has a contagious positive energy. Jamie is a professor of strategy who has taught at Antwerp Management School, INSEAD, London Business School, the University of Melbourne, etc. He is also a public speaker who has delivered...

In this edition we interview Louis Jonckheere, co-founder and CPO of one of the hottest Belgian scale-ups. Showpad is a content management system that helps retail businesses bring all their marketing and sales content to one online location. They grew to over 500 employees in less than 10 years, serve more than 1,000 customers in 50 countries and have offices in London, Munich, San Francisco, Por...

Our first guest at the 48' podcast is An Claes, global VP of Supply Chain Planning in the Consumer Health division of Johnson and Johnson. Consumer Health is a $14B division of Johnson & Johnson, focused on over the counter medicine, skin health and other essential products, touching 1.2B people annually. An participated in a 48HoursUnplug leadership retreat in the Dominican Republic. She...

Because we believe in “leading by example”, we started our 48 minutes podcast with our Unplug48 founder Carlien Cavens . A few years ago, she had the guts to leave the save and prestigious path at McKinsey to help leaders grow. With promising results. The interview is conducted by Jennifer Elliot, who recently joined the team to build a stronger Unplug 48 (more news soon).