Today I'm interviewing Joost Callens of Caminogroep and Durabrik: "We want to be a second home for our employees." Joost illustrates that an office building can be more than just a workplace: a courtyard to relax, a sports facility to energize, even a quiet place to breathe. ​ Joost also shares his 5 tips for more balance in your personal life and how he structurally integrates them into his company. > take half an hour every day for your personal mental hygiene: small daily

Part I In this first part of the interview with the West Flemish SME BO-Solutions, almost a Factory of the Future, learn how CEO Nancy Van Damme successfully attracts and retains the right employees even in a difficult market. Topics covered include the importance of good top-down and bottom-up communication, how to get employees on board with the "customer is king" philosophy, and how to encourage them to adopt the necessary growth mindset. ​ Part II ​ Nancy achieves balance

"Balance is something that lives, not something static," Wouter Torfs explains in our podcast. One of his building blocks for balance is "the desire to learn"—a form of radical aliveness, "eros," as he calls it, which is also a central theme in his new book. Two of his core tips: 1. Dare to try something new: personal development is the foundation, especially for managers and CEOs. Gaining insight into your own pitfalls, strengths, but also demons => this personal transformat

​ CEO Toon Bossuyt shares more about how he applies system dynamics within his management team and company, and how, as a CEO, you can create support for emotional safety for your team by setting a good example. This allows people to be themselves and express their true feelings and desires at work. ​ "If you want burnout, that's the recipe: don't look at the emotions. It's a huge illusion to think that the emotions will go away by not paying attention to them; that just buil

​ Today I'm interviewing Bruno Vermote, CEO of Robaco, about balance in a family business, a small SME in West Flanders. It was a connected conversation, during which I learned how open communication, empathy, and caring for each other within the team at this family business foster a strong team spirit and support each other and their customers! It's also beautiful how Bruno, as a highly sensitive person, finds balance in his CEO role, how he has grown in his family business

What do more than 15 CEOs have to say when we ask them about how they create more balance in their personal lives and in their companies? I asked that question Franky Van Hamme , who has 30 years of management experience at leading international companies, was the one I interviewed for the podcast. Franky also contributed insights from the 12 preceding CEO interviews for my new book chapter in "Personal Leadership." 🌿In the Zinhoeve we had a powerful conversation about

So fascinating what we were able to learn from Lise Conix , CEO of Schoenen Torfs ! 👠 As a mother of two young children and a whopping five in her newly formed family, she had a lot of fascinating things to tell us about work-life balance! She allows her worlds as CEO and mother to blend seamlessly. If she couldn't do that, she would feel like a failure. In this way, she strives to be caring and to strengthen businesses, and these are elements she carries over into her role