Overview
Leadership as a concept covers the practices a founder or executive uses to set direction, build a culture and decide what to hand over. The names are operators, among them Duco Sickinghe of Fortino Capital, Anouk Lagae of Accent Jobs, Bart Claes of JBC, Axel Smits of PwC Europe and Davy Vreys of Brussels Airport Company. Founders of smaller firms sit alongside them, including Bart-Jan Leyts of Otamiser in Ghent and Filip Smet of AMOTEK Technologies in Kontich.
Stated facts & numbers
- Entities tied to the concept: 41
- People on the wiki: 15
- Companies on the wiki: 0, because leadership is filed as a theme
- Videos discussing it: 95
- Dominant channel: Ben's Mentors, with De CFO Podcast, Virtual and Johan de Wit alongside it
- Largest turnaround cited: Duco Sickinghe, who took Telenet from near-bankruptcy to a profitable unicorn as CEO
- Award-winning operator: Filip Smet, AMOTEK Technologies in Kontich, Enterprise Software winner of the 2025 Belgian Technology Fast 50
- Delegation benchmark: Thomas Van Eeckhout, four weeks of leave each summer at a company with 150 million euro in revenue
- Recurring disagreement: Speed and risk appetite, argued by Louis Jonckheere and Peter Hinssen, against burnout cost, argued by Marnick Vandebroek
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