About Fred
Bio
Trained as a criminologist, Fred worked for 5 years in the Belgian public administration. In 2006, he quit this ready-made career... but focused to the bad trends of people: deviance and crime.
He adapts his behavioral patterns to the corporate world and to what he calls “behavioral patterns of success”: how leaders manage to turn setbacks into personal climax, obstacles into miracles, and talents into diamonds.
It decodes human mindset in the professional context to share simple, effective and memorable perspectives and advices to CEOs, business owners, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, managers and employees.
The numbers for this new career speak for themselves:
• +1100 conferences in 17 countries over 4 continents, both in French and English
• +240 companies supported in their transformation
• 10 books in 12 years, in Europe and Quebec, including 4 bestsellers
Fred is also a guitar player and songwriter: 🎶
• He plays blues and heavy music, from rock to metal 🎸
• He wrote some 20 registered songs
• For over 10 years, he was leader of a band named Tears Of Blood
• As a true fan, he attended some 20 Metallica shows.
Fred loves to read 📚. When he can, he runs a bit 🏃🏻♂️ (3 half-marathons and a marathon on the clock but no, he didn’t fall in love with running to which he much prefers good food 🫣).
Rewarded with the CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional) designation by the NSA (National Speakers Association), member of GSF (Global Speakers Federation), Fred travels the world to inspire everyone he gets the chance to meet to:
1. Redefine their perspectives and room for maneuver,
2. Take responsibility and be accountable for their ambitions,
3. Have the courage to go for action with boldness and innovation.
His motto: “An expert who makes things more complicated doesn't do his job well (...) An expert should simplify things.” - Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin brand
I'm passionate about
Life, humans and interactions between them passionate me.
An idea worth spreading
Trust Your Rock’n’Roll Side
Areas of expertise
behavioral patterns, Innovation, inspiration, Leadership, mindset, Motivation
The TED story
I gave a talk entitled : "How perception of failure can leverage success"
Everybody fails sometimes, right? From the child learning to walk to the grown-up losing fight against sickness and death, humanity faces failure all the time. Even the great minds of business, the smart figures of entrepreneurship and the true Heroes fail. As they are all facing failure as anybody else does, it seems that they manage to use failure as a way to succeed. Somehow, those who succeed tremendously take advantage of failure to win at the end. Find out how their perception influences their attitude, learn the tips&tricks around failure and its perception, and give yourself a killer weapon to your own success.
You can check the video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXYIKenP4o
