Jan De Schepper

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Who is Jan De Schepper?

Jan De Schepper was a senior manager at Telindus and Proximus, and a youth coach at the KV Mechelen football club. His experience makes him a privileged witness to the cross-fertilisation between sport and the business world. In 2015, he wrote the book ‘Kopmannen’ (Leaders). What can top managers and elite sportsmen and women learn from each other? ConneXion was launched in September 2020. The book, which he wrote together with Paul Van Den Bosch, sets out seven paradoxes that explain disruption in leadership.   

Jan was appointed chairman of Securitas Belgium in 2020. Since 2009 he has been a member of the executive boards of BDO Digital, Automation, Uman.ai and Astrid, which is responsible for the police and security services network. Jan has also been the chair of ADM, the ‘Share & Connect’ platform between IT providers and users since 2008. (more info at www.adm.be).

Jan De Schepper holds a Master’s in Science and an MBA from Harvard (1997). As the former CEO of Telindus and VP of Proximus, but also as the chair of ADM, his focus is on a pragmatic and efficient market approach and business development.
As an entrepreneur and strategic thinker, he works closely with several companies.  

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    Amplifiers

    Falling productivity threatens to undermine our prosperity and wellbeing. CEOs are crucial in reversing this trend. They establish ‘amplifiers’ in the organisation in order to neutralise counter-productive systems and keep the company moving forward. 

    The amplifiers take on the challenge of establishing connections and enabling people to work together (collaboration). Collaboration is much more than the sum of its parts. Achieving more with less. In plain language, amplifiers are ‘simplifiers’. They ‘cast’ the right employees in order to facilitate the collaboration, and evaluate them in an innovating manner. All this within a simplified environment.
     

    ConneXion

    CEOs and managers have a hard time adapting to ever-changing circumstances and a world full of contradictions. In times of crisis, weaknesses come to the fore, such as complexity, complications and setbacks. A new form of disruption makes its appearance: that of the leadership. CEOs must be able these days to achieve results under the most complicated circumstances; they must be able to simplify and bring about change.

    In this world of exponential change, ever-increasing digitalisation, and COVID 19, we see how human connections are becoming an increasingly important and essential part of leadership. Hence the term, ConneXion. ConneXion is a concept that should and will make the difference in tomorrow’s world. Building deep relationships, understanding people's individual motivations, caring, booking results, galvanising teams, aiming for a higher goal and finding the right physical and mental balance. Well-functioning teams will become increasingly important in this world of increasing intelligence and robotisation. It is only through such deep connection that a CEO will be able to make his employees future-proof. With an authentic, interdependent relationship, the CEO can render the company agile and efficient.
     

    The power of speed

    ‘Leadership speed’ is the powerful combination of speed and quality. More than ever, the CEO effect is having an impact on the company (the organisation), the way of working and the people. When commitment and productivity are improved simultaneously, company performance is driven to a higher level.

    How can leadership, based on exceptional strengths, guarantee better performance at corporate and personal level and increase the commitment of the employees? Because, even if the employee has no direct say in the decision, he/she challenges us to do better.

    The effectiveness of the CEO is doubled. The commitment of the employees increases exponentially, and customer satisfaction reaches new heights. 

In ConneXion, Jan De Schepper and Paul Van Den Bosch give us their vision of how a CEO can make his/her employees better. Based on the 7 paradoxes, they provide the business leader with workable insights and a practical guide that takes employees to the next level. A must-read for a modern CEO
 

Johan Thijs

CEO KBC Group

In the current era of exponential change, accelerated digitalisation and COVID 19, Jan De Schepper and Paul Van Den Bosch explain how human connections are an increasingly important and essential part of leadership. With numerous examples from the sport and business worlds, they show how difficult it is for CEOs to connect properly with their people and their motivations.
 

Dominique Leroy

Member of the Board of Management Deutsche Telekom AG for Europe

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Jan and Paul have brought years of experience and research in the business and sports worlds together in this book, a referencework
for senior management who aspire to ConneXion, the highest level of leadership. Sufficiently substantiated, but also very practical
and extremely relevant. A must.
 

Bart De Smet

CEO Ageas