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Cyriel Kortleven

CSP
Global professional speaker
CyrielKortleven.com
Country or state 
Belgium
Available to 
Global
City 
Antwerp
Fee 
Languages 
English,
Dutch
Volunteer
No

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Bio

Cyriel Kortleven is an award-winning global keynote speaker for conferences, client events and leadership development meetings. He is an expert in boosting the creative and entrepreneurial mindsets of successful professionals in a changing environment. Cyriel will help your organisation to achieve your most important strategic goals by engaging your employees to do things differently; reducing natural risk-aversion and stimulating a more entrepreneurial mindset; offering pragmatic tools and language to open essential conversations on innovation and change. He has worked with clients like Bayer, IKEA, Nike, NASA, Unilever and many more to make their big events and conferences a great success.

As a keynote speaker, Cyriel is the living embodiment of engagement, using a lot of interaction and humour. He is a simplifier who delivers a simple, pragmatic message and leaves his audience with helpful tools and useful language. Cyriel excels in an international context with audiences from all over the world. No wonder that Cyriel belongs to a select group of 35 people in the world who are Global Speaking Fellows: An award for speakers who have spoken across the Globe and demonstrate a high degree of speaking expertise and cultural awareness in global markets. He has already inspired organisations in 33 different countries on five continents and is the author of five successful business books.

His mantra: "Don't mind the Change. Change your Mind.”

Current position (1)

Global professional speaker

CyrielKortleven.com

Achievements (2)
Global Speaking Fellow (only 35 in the world)

An award for speakers who have spoken across the Globe and demonstrate a high degree of speaking expertise and cultural awareness in global markets.

CSP - Certified Speaking professional

Recognition for professional speakers who deliver top-value to their clients.

Degrees (1)
Commercial Engineer
University Hasselt
1994 to 1999

Presentations

Presentations (2)
The Change Mindset

Every day, we're confronted with new challenges: global competition; demanding clients; new technologies; ... We need professionals who dare to leave their comfort zone and suspend their judgement. We need professionals who explore the world from a different perspective and can turn problems into opportunities. We need professionals who get into action and who aren’t scared to fail fast, often and forward by experimenting with BaNano actions. Are you one of those professionals?

YES ... suspend your judgement to break fixed thinking patterns.
AND … explore the world from a different perspective to generate new ideas.
ACT … take small actions because the key to real innovation is doing experiments & fail fast, often & forward.

In this interactive and entertaining presentation, you will get the spark, tools and language to influence others to be more creative & entrepreneurial and give a big boost to your own Change Mindset. Yes And Act … Now.

Crossing X Borders

What can your organisation learn from other industries & other surprising sources?

Our society faces many major challenges. Many of them are complex, also called 'wicked problems'. To solve them, cross-over cooperation between silos and sectors is crucial. Designing these collaborations and finding new solutions needs a new discipline: cross-industry innovation.

During this entertaining and inspiring presentation, you will explore a simple process & concrete tools to 'translate' solutions from different industries & other surprising resources to your own business. Cyriel will boost your skills to broaden your perspective and give you tips and tools to use out-of-the-ordinary resources to discover new ideas.

Past talks (3)
Ladders & Bananas - survivalkit for professionals in change
Mastering SAP (600 HR & financial professionals)
Melbourne
December 31, 2015
Ladders & Bananas in the event-world
Keynote challenge - MPI Netherlands
Amsterdam
December 31, 2015
Creativity boost for professional speakers
Asia Professional Speakers Association
Singapore
December 31, 2015
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Books & Articles (5)

the Change Mindset
self-published,
1
Less is Beautiful
self-published,
3
Yes and ... Your Business
self-published,
5
Meer met Minder
Lannoo,
3
Timespiration
10

Expertise (13)

Business
PR & Communications
Leadership
Skills & Trades
Change mindset Creativity Innovation creative mindset entrepreneurial mindset outside the box thinking unlocking potential Inspiration Motivational

Clients

NASA
Unilever
Pfizer
Bayer
IKEA
Nike
BDO
VF
Here
Sanofi
Scania
Roche
Engie
Fulton Hogan
Deloitte
Intertrust
Origin group
TEDx
Pukkelpop
Schroders
Proximus
KBC
BNP Paribas
Belfius
Warner Media
Meeting Professionals International
Comvita
UAE government
Johns Manville
Amgen
DUKE Corporate Education

Awards & certifications (2)

Certified Speaking Professional
National Speakers Association
2015
Global Speaking Fellow
Global Speakers Federation
2018
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Global speaker. Change Mindset. Boosting potential. Global CSP.

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