Paul Van Den Bosch

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Who is Paul Van Den Bosch?

Paul Van Den Bosch is a top sports coach and executive coach. Over his 30-year career as a top sports coach, he has worked with many elite athletes who have achieved world and European titles in various sports disciplines. As an executive coach, he focuses on improving leadership and coaching skills for both individuals and teams. An important focus is on the principles that he has successfully applied when guiding and supporting his top athletes in achieving peak performance. 
In his keynote speech, Paul Van Den Bosch shares his experience regarding the coaching qualities that result in excellent leadership; he also deals with other subjects, including resilient communication, stress as a positive motivator, the effect of a healthy lifestyle on our physical and mental wellbeing, and how strong bonds between people is needed to achieve top results. Inspired storytelling and drawing on his own experiences are key parts of his talks.

He has a Master’s in Physical Education and Movement Sciences (KULeuven), and, together with Bob Verbeeck of the sports marketing bureau, GOLAZO Sports, he set up the successful Energy Lab in 2009.

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    LEAD LIKE A COACH

    We are all, to varying degrees, a coach: as a parent, teacher, colleague, manager, teammate, or trainer. All of us have someone we want and can make better. Just that is the essence of coaching.
    A good coach is not necessarily the winner's coach. He does, however, succeed in getting the best out of his ‘pupil’ or team, or more than was thought possible. A good coach does not watch ‘whether’ his pupil or team makes it, he makes sure ‘that’ he makes it.

    Nowhere more than in sport is ‘the best’, or ‘more’, objectively represented and quantified. It is about places, minutes, seconds, fractions of a second. A coach must therefore also be able to ‘go deep’ himself, to the limit in terms of motivation. Just like his athlete or team, he himself must possess some undeniable success factors.

    A good coach is not necessarily the winner's coach. However, he does manage to get the best out of his ‘pupil’ or team, or more than was thought possible. A good coach does not watch ‘whether’ his pupil or team makes it, he makes sure ‘that’ he makes it.

    Nowhere more than in sport is ‘the best’, or ‘more’, objectively represented and quantified. It is about places, minutes, seconds, fractions of a second. A coach must therefore also be able to ‘go deep’ himself, to the limit in terms of motivation. Just like his athlete or team, he himself must possess some undeniable success factors.

    In Lead like a coach, Paul Van Den Bosch, from a long career as a coach of top athletes and as a coach in business, discusses the coaching skills that can be used to achieve joint success. Talent, load capacity, setting the right goals, motivation, focus on strengths, trust, connection, resilient communication and feedback, dealing with stress: all these factors are covered in this contribution. Depending on the question, more focus will be placed on one or more of these factors.

    Using frequent examples and anecdotes, a clear link is constantly made from coaching in the sports world to coaching in the business world. ‘Lead like a coach’ brings an engaging, surprising and refreshing perspective on coaching and motivation in general.

    EGOPRENEUR

    In ‘EGOPRENEUR’, Paul Van Den Bosch gives tips and tools on how to take better care of yourself in order to also become more mentally resilient and better able to take care of others. This presentation is based on his books ‘Egopreneur’ and ‘The Ideal Day’.

    People who are physically fit are very often also mentally resilient, and people who are mentally resilient will also be physically stronger and recover more quickly. There is an inextricable link between the physical and mental aspects of human beings. To be physically fit, particular attention must be paid to sufficient exercise ern a healthy sleep and eating pattern. These three pillars in turn lead to an important fourth pillar, namely greater stress resistance.

    However, this does not mean that everything can always be under control. Our energy levels and feelings go up and down. There is nothing wrong with that, and we should be able to accept dips. After all, ‘what goes up, must go down’ and you can't always surf the crest of the waves. But we do have to work day-to-day to keep or bring our energy up to par.  And just that is not happening enough. People do everything for their jobs, their families.... They run after themselves, and they forget themselves. This lack of self-care gets them into trouble.

    In ‘EGOPRENEUR’, Paul also give insights into how, through the Pareto principle, you can make more time for yourself, and how, through sufficient exercise, a healthy sleep pattern and good eating habits, you can become a better and stronger ‘me’. Or how to become an ‘egopreneur’ who will be more productive in his professional environment, and will be able to offer more support to people around him.

Thank you again for the great collaboration! Only compliments received about your presentation.

Natascha Van den Breen

Growth Marketing Beobank

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Thank you, Paul. I received very nice reactions about your presentation. ‘Cracker of a presentation’ and ‘Great that we could get Paul'

Ilse Himpe

Country Lead SAS Belux - Sales Director Public Sector

Your presentation was completely in line with my expectations, and I heard only positive things from the teams.

Kenneth Bornauw

M&O Lead Microsoft