European Leadership Platform – European Leadership Platform

Welcome to ELP

For over fifteen years European Leadership Platform has offered leaders a place to meet with their peers and discuss the responsibilities, dilemmas and decisions of their working lives.

ELP is based on the belief that people learn best through dialogue, and that dialogue is most valuable when it is conducted among equals in a setting that encourages openness and vulnerability. Dialogue is more effective than discussion or debate in addressing issues of increasing complexity and speed. In today’s world that is polarized and short of attention, reflection and dialogue are more necessary than ever.

“ELP has given my work more body, sense and purpose by helping me to look beyond the spreadsheets”

Yann Toutant

General Manager, Econocom Netherlands

“ELP has expanded my views on leadership through the diversity of its participants and a menu of very relevant leadership dilemmas, discussed in a safe and convivial setting”

Vincent Moolenaar

Global Integration Program Leader, Ahold Delhaize

“Speaking freely, the intimacy at the tables and the Chatham House Rule are at the core of the ELP Experience”

Jeanine van der Vlist

Managing Director, Eurofiber Netherlands

“ELP helps me to look a level deeper, beyond the hypes”

Frederieke Damme

Business Director, Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands

The latest news

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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #7
April 12, 2018April 12, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP, we work with the Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The seventh is thinking win-win. A dialogue is different...
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #6
April 5, 2018April 5, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP, we work with the Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The sixth is about listening actively and attentively. Listening...
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #5
April 3, 2018April 3, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP, we work with The Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The fifth is about being yourself and showing yourself....
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #4
March 29, 2018March 29, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP, we work with The Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The fourth is is about slowing down. Time and...
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #3
March 27, 2018March 27, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP, we work with The Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The third is about letting go. A dialogue requires...
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #2
March 22, 2018March 22, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP we work with the Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The second is: be in the here and now....
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The Ten Commandments of Dialogue: #1
March 19, 2018March 19, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

At ELP we work with the Ten Commandments of Dialogue. The first is that we create a safe environment...
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I believe in quota
March 7, 2018March 7, 2018,Homepage, Leadership

The purpose of gender diversity in an organization is gender diversity itself. If you believe that men and women...
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Somewheres and Anywheres
January 9, 2018January 26, 2018,Leadership

The division between ‘somewheres’ and ‘anywheres’ is one of the new divisions that set different groups of people in...
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Be Crazy
November 13, 2017November 13, 2017,Leadership

Walter Isaacson wrote a great biography of Steve Jobs. Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and former CEO of...