Professor Steven Poelmans

Steven A.Y. POELMANS has a Master in Organizational Psychology (University of Louvain, Belgium), a Master in Marketing Management (Vlerick Management School, Belgium), and Ph.D. in Management / Organizational Behavior (IESE Business School / University of Navarra).
Steven Poelmans is currently Academic Director of the International Centre of Work and Family and Assistant Professor in the Managing People in Organizations Department of the IESE Business School. He teaches organizational behaviour, career management, managerial communication, leadership, coaching, and self-management to MBA-students and executives.

Over the past 5 years, both in his research, teaching and consulting practice Poelmans has developed a cross-cultural approach, doing collaborative international research on managerial stress and work-family conflict, teaching executives in European multinationals in English, Spanish, and Dutch, and doing consulting in Europe, Central-America and Africa.

He coordinates the Collaborative International Study on Managerial Stress (CISMS) that compares sources and consequences of managerial stress and work-family conflict in 30 countries.

In 2005 he organized the first international academic conference on work and family in Barcelona, gathering some of the finest researchers in the field to reflect on the state of art of research on work/life policies and practices, cross-cultural research on work and family, research on decision making and coping, and expatriate families. He is currently working on a book with Cambridge University Press on international work/life polices and practices with sponsorship of IBM Consulting Services.

He did contract research, training, consulting, and coaching for organizations like Sun Microsystems, Abbott, the Catalonian Government, Transportes Metropolitanos de Barcelona (TMB), Nestlé, Henkel, Adecco, and Manpower.

He is founding member of the European Academy of Management, member of the Academy of Management and international affiliate of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.