On Track
“Welkom bij 'On Track', een podcast waarin ik dieper in ga op de unieke levensverhalen van mensen die ik ontmoet op mijn pad. Ik ben Carlien Cavens, gastvrouw van dienst en oprichter van Unplug 48, het bedrijf waarmee ik unieke en transformerende retreats organiseer voor ondernemers en changemakers op zoek naar meer richting rondom hun persoonlijke pad.
In elke aflevering gaan we in op het levensverhaal, de uitdagingen en de verworven wijsheden van mijn gasten. Af en toe zal ik ook een solo-aflevering opnemen rond een belangrijke gebeurtenis of thema in mijn eigen leven. Op die manier hoop ik om jou te inspireren om zelf je eigen unieke pad te bewandelen en handvaten mee te geven rond de weg daar naartoe. So sit back, relax and let’s get back on track.
On Track
Pierre Gurdjian (McKinsey, IDeA Foundation, ULB) - About wise leadership, the concept of time and philosophy.
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 counseling CEO's and Chairpersons on governance matters and issues of cultural change and effectiveness of top teams. He was an active senior faculty member of several high profile client leadership forums
Today he is the President of the Board of Directors of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), one of Belgium’s largest universities, he is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at UCB, a listed global biopharma company leader in immunology and neurology; a Member of the Board of Directors at Lhoist, a family-owned company world leader in limestone and dolomite production; and a Member of the Board of Governors of the United World College (UWC) in Dilijan in Armenia.
Pierre is also Philanthropy and Strategy Partner of the IDeA Foundation, a global philanthropic organization that seeks to establish innovative and transformative ways to change the world through territory development, innovation in education and promotion of humanitarian values.
Pierre has a passion for human capital development and co-created the “Roots & Wings” platform that helps equip talented individuals who are on a journey to making the world better. He is also often invited to speak about leadership building, with a focus on wisdom, purpose, and legacy.
He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and past President of YouthStart Belgium and the Harvard Club of Belgium. He teaches a graduate course on ‘The CEO Perspective’ at the Solvay Business School (ULB) and is involved in numerous humanitarian, philanthropic, and entrepreneurial initiatives in Europe.
Pierre holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
