Drikus Kriek

Professor
Drikus Kriek

Prof. Hendrik Sebastiaan (Drikus) Kriek is the Dean of the Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies, Director of the Doctoral programs, and Associate Professor of Leadership at the IEDC-Bled School of Management in Bled, Slovenia. He teaches “Leadership”, “Leading High-Performance Teams” and “Organizational Development” courses at various institutions while being instrumental in establishing the recently launched Team Development Institute at the IEDC.

He acted as Interim Director of the Central and Eastern European Management Association in 2018 and currently holds the NLB Chair for Leadership Development at the IEDC. Previously, he was the Director of the Leadership Development Centre at Wits Business School (WBS) of the University of the Witwatersrand where he holds an associate professorship in Human Resource Management and Leadership.

 

Academic Experience

Drikus lectures and consults in the field of Organizational Development and had been involved in team development; educational projects management; lecturing; and leadership development programmes in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Australia. He is also director of the Team and Leadership Development Centre, which specializes in team solutions including unstructured groups, teambuilding initiatives and psychometric assessments. His book (Team Leadership: Theories, Tools and Techniques) was published in 2018 while his most recent book (Teams: The Art of Leading Teams) was published in 2022.

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