Area of Expertise: Coaching

Extensive experience leading negotiations to form partnerships with global companies in various countries such as the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Belgium, and Russia. Negotiation of long-term sales contracts with international companies.

Management and leadership of cultural transformation and change processes in multinational companies. Design and implementation of strategies and action plans to improve the results of companies in a situation of operational and financial crisis. Successful development and implementation of investment projects.

Profound skills in managing a wide variety of leadership, innovation, and expansion situations successfully.  Skillful experience in change management structure and leading processes across borders and cultures. 

Effective application of innovation and modernization procedures focused on operational functionality across regions.

Stefaan is the founder of the Global Curiosity Institute where he and his team are supporting professionals, teams and organisations to foster a mindset of curiosity.
 
He started his career in investment consulting in China. From there he moved to set up the executive education arm of a major business school in Shanghai, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), which he ran for 5 years. Subsequently, he moved to the corporate side and set up global learning teams and innovative corporate universities for Nokia (China/Finland), Agfa Healthcare (Belgium), Philips (the Netherlands), Flipkart (India), Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) and Cognizant (UK). His last role was that of Chief Learning Officer for Cognizant, where he overlooked the learning and development for over 300k associates across the globe. He has been globally recognized for his innovative approach to learning, people and technology.
 
Stefaan has a Master’s degree in Economics and in Chinese, together with postgraduate degrees in Marxist Economics from China, Cross-Cultural Management from France and an Executive MBA from Rutgers University. He is a certified ACS and NLP coach. A Belgian national, Stefaan has been married for 25 years to Jeltje Peletier: a successful psychotherapist, coach and yoga teacher. Together they have 4 children: Rik, Femke, Koen and Menko. He practices meditation daily, is a marathon runner and is currently pursuing a masters degree in philosophy.
 
To learn more about the institute click here: https://www.globalcuriosityinstitute.com/

Benjamín has largely focused his work on developing marketing and communication strategies for companies seeking to increase market share. He’s also passionate about helping others evolve by assisting them to articulate their challenges.

He has worked for more than 10 years in the advertising and fashion industries in regional and global positions respectively, working with worldwide clients such as Mastercard, Danone, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, among others.

While thriving in the communication and marketing world, he decided to go further and acquire tools that would expand his personal development and also enable him to help others on their journeys.

Benjamín holds an Executive and Personal Coaching master’s degree from Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) a Bachelor of Arts degree in advertising and communication from Universidad de Palermo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and is certified by Human Synergistics in Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) (Chicago, Illinois) and in application coaching and Conscious Business teaching by Axialent University.

Benjamín loves nature, animals and outdoor activities. He likes to play football, biking, hiking and exercising. Originally from Argentina, Benjamín has now settled in Spain with his wife.