Fabiaan Van Vrekhem

Fabiaan Van Vrekhem is Executive Chairman of VALPEO. He has accumulated a wide range of experience in all areas of organisational development and leadership strategy.

Fabiaan has always been passionate about creating an integrated and holistic approach to strategy implementation, organisation development, recruitment, talent management, competence management, leadership development, and compensation policy. It was this deep interest in finding value in people and organisations that lead Fabiaan to found VALPEO (Transformative Value of People and Organisations).

His extensive and diverse career has seen him take on various leadership roles. He has previously held several front-line and HR roles in insurance, non-profit, and with large groups as Tate & Lyle, Campina Melkunie, and as HR Director at Alken-Maes, part of Danone Group. In 2002, he started a wholesale and retail company but then went back to his passion, which is HR, taking over Accord Group in Belgium in 2006, a leadership and organisational advisory firm that is part of the VALPEO Group now. His mission: to integrate science and technology in order to gain deeper insight into what organisations and leaders truly need to achieve sustainable growth.

Fabiaan is the published author of two books on leadership and transformation. His first book, The Disruptive Competence, charts the path to a sustainable business – shifting the focus from matter to meaning. His second book, Disruption@work, describes and explains a clear framework for understanding the different levels of disruption.

Fabiaan graduated with a degree in Banking, Stock Markets, and Finance, and holds a Master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences as well as an MBA.