Tom Staelens

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Bio

Tom Staelens is an experienced marketer, having worked for multinationals such as Disney on several digital marketing projects. He also helped several startups grow their business from scratch. Apart from that he is very passionate about leadership and has participated in several leadership academies, also as a trainer. He is a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer in Belgium.

Current position (1)

CEO

Upperscore

Degrees (1)

Japanese studies

Catholic University of Leuven

1998 to 2003

Presentations

Presentations (6)

Marketing automation

How to grow your company sustainably by automating your marketing and sales

Content marketing

What is content marketing and how can you use it to grow your business?

Inbound marketing

How to get leads and business the inbound way

Leadership

How being a member of a non profit and taking up responsibility makes you a better leader in your business

Entrepreneurship

As an experienced entrepreneur, I like to share my insights, experience and vision on entrepreneurship in general.

The mindset of successful entrepreneurs

Past talks (8)

Hoe do you turn your sales and marketing employees into 1 unstoppable team?

How do you align sales and marketing in your organisation?

online

May 12, 2022

Marketing automation - how do you do it?

Kortrijk

May 4, 2022

Hoe laat je je organisatie groeien op de inbound manier?

online

October 27, 2021

The do's and don'ts of networking

Ideecafé

Aalst

March 24, 2016

How to get the most out of network events when you have no experience

Ideecafé

Aalst

March 23, 2017

Je business starten met content marketing

Starters onder stoom

Aalst

January 29, 2018

Jumpstart je bedrijf met marketing automation

Zoom

October 26, 2020

Hoe schrijf je succesvolle award dossiers

GA JCI Aalst

Aalst

March 6, 2019

Reviews

Testimonials (8)

Tom was a guest lecturer for our graduate students, talking about entrepreneurship and marketing. He made it very entertaining and shared some valuable insights. We'd love to hire him again for our next event!
Joris
When Tom was working at our company, he excelled at giving presentations to customers. He has a calm but entertaining intriguing way of capturing an audience and that worked really well.
Lode
Tom is an amazing speaker! I remember his jokes here and there, and his storytelling. This was a talk to remember!
Bart
I attended an event in Belgium and Tom was speaking about leadership there. He clearly knows his stuff, and on top of that is able to present it really well. He used personal stories to inspire the audience, loved every. bit of it!
Sabrina
Tom is an enthusiastic speaker that uses his vast leadership experience to inspire people. His personal and compelling stories really capture the audience. This was really a great experience for me.
Annelies Vijncke
Tom's a very passionate and knowledgable marketing professional, and he knows how to tell the story well. Good jobI
Thomas
This guy was speaking at my university one day about marketing. It was a very entertaining and insightful talk, I would recommend this speaker any time.
Bart
Tom presented inbound and marketing strategy in a way that we understood perfectly, and gave us concrete and practical examples. Very enlightening!
Sebastian

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Books & Articles (6)

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