Bas delivers exceptional lectures and presentations on topics such as personal, team, and organisational leadership, Recruitment & Selection 3.0, leading innovation, and the importance of engagement.
Average evaluation: 9+
Tailored presentations about leadership, full of humor, practical, personal, and energetic.
Presentations
Presentations: Bas Kodden as a Speaker
Bas delivers presentations and keynotes at national and international conferences, in-company sessions, and workshops. Topics include personal, team, and organisational leadership, Recruitment & Selection 3.0, HR & Talent Management, leading innovation, and the importance of engagement for sustainably high-performing organisations. His audience is highly diverse, and the lectures take place in a wide range of locations, from knowledge festivals and museums to executive offices and studios.
Suggestions for presentations:
- An inspiring, interactive lecture for clients and employees;
- The kick-off of a major change initiative;
- A tailored seminar for the internal leadership program;
- A complete internal leadership program spanning 3 to 4 half-days.
Bas’s presentations are always tailored, full of humor, practical, personal, and energetic. Below is a brief description of the presentations lectures Bas delivers.
New: Seminar Innovative Leadership | Based on the book "Rebelleren moet je faciliteren" (Rebelling must be facilitated)
This masterclass demonstrates why innovative leadership is a necessary core competency for every successful organisation today. We leave behind the world of spreadsheet constraints and move into a world where non-conformity, originality, self-efficacy, and engagement drive the growth of the organisation’s innovative capacity.
With this innovative capacity, you lead your organisation to success; you improve the organisation by allowing your people to improve themselves. This seminar will leave you feeling energised. The key persona in this seminar is the rebel. Here’s a surprise: that rebel is you!
Every organisation needs a rebel. Call them a rebel, an outsider, a maverick; it is individuals with these qualities who drive the organisation forward. Rebels shake things up and ensure the organisation’s innovative capacity.
In this masterclass, you will learn that there are various types of rebels, and that there is one type you must have in your organisation. Many organisations strive for sustainable performance; this can only be achieved through innovation. A great realisation is that you can organise this innovation.
Topics based on the book: Rebelleren moet je faciliteren (2024)
- Break the vicious circle: it’s all about leadership and the right (!) form of work motivation.
- From the right work motivation to the desired work attitude.
- Everyone is a rebel; but what kind of rebel are you?
- Kill Your Company!
- Stop with one-on-ones.
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Above All; The Best)
- Stay relevant (but how?).
- Who are your paradise birds?
- Job to be Done
- Vuja De vs. Via Negativa: Eliminate what you can eliminate!
- Do everything. Differently!
Psychology and Leadership
Book: The Devil Inside (2020) #1 bestseller, category Personal Leadership.
If there’s one thing Bas has learned from his years of experience as a mentor to top coaches and Olympic & world champions, it’s the importance of changing one’s mindset. How can you grow as a person and as a professional in times of uncertainty? Knowing how and when to make choices that often seem paradoxical?
The Devil Inside is about breaking through your own barriers. The more you can silence that internal voice – your devil inside – the more you are able to grow, and the more others will recognise your leadership.
Organisational Transformation
Book: Out of Control (2021) Inaugural Lecture.
Research shows that effective leaders encourage rebellious (non-conformist) behaviour for the benefit of the organisation. Think of dissent, originality, experimentation, innovation, and improvisation. By disconnecting control from hierarchy and rules, and giving control to professionals, organisations can get back “in control.”
But how do you do that? How do you successfully bring fellow leaders along in this movement? And meet the world-famous Nick Vujicic!
Excellent Leadership
Book: The 7 Lessons of Excellent Leadership (2025) Coming soon in 2025.
Getting Things Done! Leadership is a contradiction in terms. A paradox, where our behaviour is driven by our primary motivations. Most leaders lead when they shouldn’t, and fail to lead when they should.
Optimise self-efficacy and problem-solving abilities within your team and organisation, and truly get things done. An effective leader achieves about 30% more results!
Engaged leadership
Book: Be a HERO (2014) #1 bestseller, all categories
Do you ever feel like you haven’t yet unlocked your full potential, or that of your team or organisation? That there’s so much more possible? That you just need that one bridge to move forward? You’re not alone: around 80% of all Dutch employees currently experience a lack of happiness and challenge in their work! Through his books, lectures, and seminars, Bas reaches thousands of leaders and professionals every year, inspiring and energising them to bring themselves and their organisations into a renewed state of flow and engagement.
Take action too. As an organisation, as a team, as an individual!
HR & Leadership
Book: The Art of Sustainable Performance (2017) #1 bestseller, category HR & Talent Management
Why does one organisation remain successful, while others fall apart and disappear? Why does that one person manage to repeat their success, even when no one expected it?
Forget everything you thought you knew about selecting and hiring the right employees. It’s different than you think! The secret to winning individuals and teams lies in the combination of talent and four key performance traits, which, strangely enough, many organisations fail to select for…
The Art of Leadership
Book: Multiple, combined themes (competencies, skills, talent)
Leadership is an art; it’s all about intensity. Intensity in mastering leadership skills, communication, triggers of fear, ego, and empathy, different leadership styles, and, for example, learning to face confrontations and daring to engage in them without causing conflict.
Leadership is a contradiction in terms. A paradox, where our behaviour is driven by our primary motivations. Most leaders lead when they shouldn’t, and fail to lead when they should. Managing our motivations and that paradox requires, for leaders, not only self-awareness but also much experience and skill.
Most leaders step in when they should step out and step out when they should step in. Discover the highest form of leadership: Learn to let others take the lead!
Leadership RvB/RvC
Book: Multiple Books
What does it mean to lead and oversee boards and management teams? What is most needed is insight into what is decisive for the choices you, as a leader, have to make. What aspects shape your leadership? And how do you translate them to your governing context and add something unique from your own perspective? When do you step in as a leader? When do you step out?
Dealing with your own dilemmas and those of others requires, from leaders, not only self-awareness but also much experience and skill.
Management Leadership Development
Book: All Books Various #1 bestsellers
Many organisations have gone before you and were highly complimentary afterwards. “Groundbreaking.” “Different from anything we’ve ever had.” “This is exactly what we needed.” “Our results are already skyrocketing.” “Our direction is now truly set.”
In 3 to 4 half-days (or 2 days), your leaders will be energised and inspired, preparing them for the future to perform together. “An unprecedented journey in leadership land.”
