About Ralf
 
Listen carefully to the subtle voice of your inner bliss

During his life, Ralf had the chance to peek into many different
professions. He started as electrician, delved into social work and
more by accident, studied Business Administration. He was
intrigued by social research and collected extensive work experience
as an organizational sociologist in management and organization
science while becoming managing director of a joint research and
consulting group in Switzerland. He currently works as a Pro­fessor
of Organization and Applied Arts at Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

There, he delved deeply into different realms of Performing Arts like
improvisation theatre and clowning. By combining Applied Arts with
organization theory, Ralf inspires and prepares for high-speed and
high-quality decision making in times of volatility, while discovering
new ways towards joy, relief, resilience and impact.

He is unique in the way he explores the territory beyond the trodden
paths of management science to provide truly inspiring insights ena­bling
his clients to excel in today’s VUCA world. Highly successful train­ing and
coaching formats employ dif­ferent art forms like improvisation theatre,
movement & dance, surreal painting and mask work/clowning to bring
lead­ers and organizations safely and playfully in new contact with them­-
selves to allow for transformational change. 

He loves to turn research results into art-based forms like fiction, access-
i­ble for non-academic readers. Remarkable is his  Shakespearian drama on
organi­zational change (“To change or not to change”).

By means of his theatre work, he found a completely new access to life and
to research about life in particular. He is a passion­ate improvisation theatre
player himself and loves to give his own clown all the space it needs to
bring fun and laughter to refugee shelters and pedestrian zones,
even if it’s only to keep Ralf’s own ability of being surprised alive.
He is very happy of his portfolio of now five shows, of which
two are mask performances, one is a red-nose-clown show
with all together eight clowns on stage and two dramatic
improvisation shows.
They brought him to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the 
Brighton Fringe Festival, the Zagreb Clown Festival and
received enthusiastic recognition by the Financial Times, 
the FringeReview and Entertainment Now.