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Erik Van Praag
Director - The Edge
Netherlands
Born 1940, psychologist (graduated university of Amsterdam, 1965),father of three children, grandfather of four. Worked as a teacher anddepartment head at the university of Amsterdam, as manager in apsychiatric hospital and as a psychotherapist. As a business consultanthis core acitivity has been facilitating and cocreating communities fororganisational and personal development. Worked with public andprivate organizations: building companies, police, municipalities,chemical and metallurgical plants (Shell), banks (ABN/AMRO, RABO),insurance companies (AEGON), etc. As a project manager of the dutchnational department of environmental affairs he contributed to theimplementation of ecological policies. He also worked inCzecho-Slovakia (now the Czech Republic), Estonia, Russia, Germany andin the USA. He organized international summer conferences for managersand professional people, called: New Perspective - 7 days of creation,Leading to the Future - a quest for tomorrow’s leadership, TheChallenge of Unity, Leading to the Edge (see www.ltte.nl), Living onthe Edge, and co-facilitated the international workshop “Healing thewounds of War”. Furthermore he is dean of the The Edge, InternationalSchool for Leadership and Spirituality. (see www.theedge.nu) He is alsoa management trainer and accredited facilitator of the TransformationGame and Frameworks for Change, and an accredited trainer for thetwoday training of Essential Peacemaking/Women and Men. He is doingPeace Work in the Middle East. He is a teacher at TSM BusinessSchool and Nyenrode University in Holland.
He is the director of Samenwerkingsverband Persoonlijk Leiderschap b.v.(Personal Leadership Associates inc.). This is a network of consultantsand trainers who do the same kind of work and operate as a company.Furthermore he is the director of the Foundation for the Development ofGlobal Leadership, a charity that supports personal development workboth in Holland and elsewhere.
Wrote many articles and seven books, among which "Management withoutcontrol - can it be? should it be?", “Room for happiness” (translatedin English) and “Spiritual Leadership” (also translated in English) and(together with Jan Paul van Soest) Life as a game. The last words ofone of these books: " 'Love cannot be cultivated by thinking' (J.Krishnamurti). Maybe it can grow if we liberate ourselves from thepinching bonds of our past, and if we open ourselves up for our longingto give what it is we have to give."
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