Gil Renders

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Who is Gil Renders?

Gil Renders is a leadership and transformation coach, psychotherapist and speaker. She founded her coaching practice ‘Echte Leiders Dansen’ ('Real Leaders Dance') in 2014. She uses it to guide (senior) managers, entrepreneurs and coaches on their path towards courageous and balanced leadership. When doing so, she combines her background as Germanist and theatre-maker with her expertise in system-based work, voice dialogue, mindfulness and unifying communication. She uses her sharp, analytical mind and radical sense of empathy to quickly dispel restrictive survival behaviours, and offers useful tips for dealing with yourself and your surroundings in a healthier and more loving manner. She does this with a strong experience-based approach and a deep sense of commitment. Gil’s keynotes offer her audience a compelling total experience: she combines knowledge and wisdom with a love for literature, dance and music. She always wholeheartedly personifies the subject matter she is talking about. Topics that fascinate her include the effectiveness of vulnerable leadership, the impact of the m/f balance in yourself and your organisation, and the emergence of new paradigms in the leadership landscape. The themes addressed in her keynotes are also covered during her successful Echte Leiders Dansen.

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    The birth of a new leadership paradigm

    A new age is being born. This is taking place on a global scale; at personal and collective level. Powerful vulnerability and deep connectedness are claiming their place beside the old (excessive) focus on profits and growth. Your leadership choices will now have a bigger influence on this global shift than ever before. How can you develop the purest and most congruent leader in yourself? Which specific ‘skills of the future’ must you use when doing so? And how can you do this in a courageous and effortless manner? During this captivating keynote, Gil Renders will introduce you to the old Newtonian vision that has caused us to descend into a (business) culture of mistrust and disconnectedness in recent centuries. She then leads you to a new vision of leadership that is based on radical empathy. Powerful and interactive experiences will help you to experience a profound sense of connectedness, with yourself as well as others. This will automatically result in courageous and feasible engagement. You will return home with a clear insight into which new skills that you, as a professional, must develop in order to effectively embrace the leadership of the future. You will also have first-hand experience of how you can (further) awaken these qualities in yourself, and thus make a lasting impact on yourself or your organisation of the future. This keynote immerses you in a total experience. Gil Renders combines knowledge and wisdom with her love of literature, dance and music. She always wholeheartedly personifies the subject matter she is talking about. Or as a participant once perfectly summarised: “She did not say it, did not do it, but simply was it. You really touched me deeply.”

    The power of vulnerable leadership

    "Vulnerability is a condition for connection. And connection is why we are here." That is what Brené Brown says in her book Daring Greatly. Powerful vulnerability is the best quality that managers, entrepreneurs or coaches can use to make a difference and generate impact in today’s world. This means you have to relinquish control while daring to remain decisive; that you must dare to doubt during contact and to communicate and receive feedback in a unifying manner. This congruent approach to leadership will result in instant (self-)confidence and credibility. You will also create true commitment and effortless engagement among your peers and employees. During this amazingly frank keynote, Gil Renders personally demonstrates how a vulnerable approach to leadership is also a sign of great power. She uses simple yet transforming exercises to invite you to examine your own vulnerability. You will return home with specific tips for immediately putting ideas into practice and for experiencing the resulting positive impact.

    The impact of the M/F balance in your organisation

    The organisation of the future will balance masculine competencies with female power. In both men and women! Focus, speed and effectiveness (masculine) are no longer relevant without a sense of empathy, self-reflection and long-term thinking (feminine). One extreme has been prioritised above the other for centuries, and is still leading to (often sub-conscious) exhaustive polarisation in the workplace. People who are fast, tough and direct tend to prosper more than people who consider things and take all perspectives into account. This conflict also occurs inside us: can or can we not feel and show our boundaries? During this scintillating keynote, Gil Renders shows how masculine and feminine qualities can serve one another. She offers you specific tips for creating a balance between the two extremes in yourself, and also for awakening this awareness among your colleagues and employees. In addition, you will personally experience the chemistry that is created when you truly start cooperating and communicating with this inner balance.

It was fantastic to feel and experience the birth of this new (leadership) paradigm in my head, my intuition and, in particular, my heart. An absolute must.

Peter Gielkens

Owner Gielkens Consultancy

Gil’s keynote about the power of vulnerability touched me deeply. Her authentic and well-founded story created a sense of silence in the hall as well as my head. It really touched me deep inside.

Karen Kelchtermans

Keynote speaker and author 'Liefde in Balans'

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It was an amazing day! A practical keynote full of insights and answers; yin and yang. You used a powerful and honest approach to access our passions. I greatly appreciate how you approached the whole day.

Inge Huys

Founder Connectiehuys