Tom Rodrigues – Voorzitter Samenleving en Bedrijf (Chairman Corporate Responsibility) and Member of the Board of Management of Ordina: “The connection to society is the determining factor in the success of tomorrow’s leaders!”










Mickey Huibregtsen – former Chairman of McKinsey & Company Netherlands, involved in De Slinger – “The world is ever more complex and fast moving. The challenge to management at any level is enormous, but so is the opportunity for impact. Only simple straightforward ideas and action can help address this complexity. This conference is dedicated to those that try.”








 Harry Hummels, Managing Director SNS Asset Management, Professor Emeritus in Corporate Ethics at the University of Maastricht: “Social, ethical and environmental issues often have a social price that the corporate sector seldom pays. If society joins forces, the corporate sector can be challenged about this.” 









George Molenkamp – former Partner and Chairman of KPMG Global Sustainability Services, Fellow Graduate Business School at the University of Amsterdam: “We live on one planet, but in a divided world. There are good solutions to all the sustainability issues. Great leaders are required to overcome the resistance to the changes that these kinds of solutions demand.”







Willem Lageweg - Managing Director MVO Netherlands: “Corporate social responsibility is the new standard for entrepreneurship in the 21st century.” MVO, the Dutch abbreviation of CSR, also promotes multiple innovation enterprise. This demands new leaders ensuring new inspiration and new connections.








Gemma Crijns – Managing Director SOMO, former director EIBE / Instituut voor verantwoord ondernemen (Institute for corporate responsibility) at Nyenrode Business University: “A sustainable future urgently needs young and visionary leadership, which is committed to solving the problems facing the world and does not remain limited to ‘petty compassion’. I have full confidence in our young future leaders.”







 Muel Kaptein – Managing Director KPMG Integrity & Investigation Services, Professor Emeritus in Corporate Ethics at Erasmus University Rotterdam – “Future leaders are not only prepared for the future, but also lead society and the corporate sector to a sustainable future. This requires social intelligence, inspiration and a great degree of decisiveness.”







Herman Mulder - Senior Advisor of UN Global Compact Office (New York) and WBCSD (Geneva): “Think Big, Start Focused, Act Quickly, as the Future is Now.”