Leading Across Generations
2 October 2025
Speakers
Fons is considered one of the world’s most influential management thinkers, especially in the fields of cultural diversity and reconciling dilemmas. In 2024, Thinkers50 announced that Fons’ book Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business was in their top ten Management Classic Booklist.


Arnout Jan will be interviewed with his mother Pauline van der Meer Mohr.

Chief Commercial Officer at YoungCapital
Martijn will speak about how young leaders can boost their boomers, see their commercial

Twan van de Kerkhof
Founder European Leadership Platform, author, editor
Twan van de Kerkhof founded the European Leadership Platform in 2003. He is passionate about leadership, loves asking penetrating questions and is an experienced moderator and facilitator. Before founding ELP, Twan was a journalist for 15 years, working for the Dutch Press Agency, as an independent journalist and as editor-in-chief of the magazine Management Scope. Twan has written eight books, the latest being ‘Misled. 11 Lies About Leadership’ (2023). He is also the editor of the books that were published in the ELP Leadership Series. Twan is an avid cook and a wine enthusiast. He is living in Landsmeer, near Amsterdam, with his wife Alexandra.
