Wibo Koole is an executive (team) coach, keynote speaker, and meditation teacher. The big challenge for leaders is to make their organizations truly of value to society. In times – such as now – of complex and profound transformations that create great uncertainties, this is not easy. In order to be able to give direction to this, leaders must show more than substantive knowledge and extensive management competencies. They must also fully contribute their personal, human qualities. As an executive coach, he helps leaders, and their teams discover how they can be effective in this.In his work he builds on his long-standing experience as a management consultant in strategy and innovation, change management, culture change and leadership development in a wide range of organizations, both corporate and social. He wrote bestsellers on leadership and culture change, emphasizing teamwork at various levels. In addition, he has extensive experience, chairman of supervisory boards and boards. In addition to being an executive team coach, he is also director of Awaris Netherlands, a management consultancy that focuses on strengthening the mental, emotional, and collaborative abilities of people in organizations through culture change, team collaboration and mindfulness-based training. He regularly gives lectures in which conscious leadership and the development towards highly productive but less stressful organizations are regularly recurring themes. His inspirations come from Greek and contemporary philosophy, Buddhist psychology, neuroscience and psychoanalysis, organizational science and leadership studies, political-social theory, and art. In addition to these activities, he is active as a meditation teacher, helping people to gain insight into thinking and feeling, consciousness and reactivity. By detaching oneself from reactive patterns – in the form of preconceived opinions, worries and fixed ways of thinking – space is created for autonomy and inner freedom to shape 'the good life'. Wibo Koole graduated laude in political science at the University of Amsterdam and followed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA). He was trained at the Presencing Institute (Boston, USA) as a facilitator for Theory you and is now a senior practitioner at the Presencing Institute. Is a transformational coach and mindfulness trainer and completed the training to become a meditation teacher at Bodhi College.