Katleen De Stobbeleir

Katleen De Stobbeleir’s goal is to help organisations unlock their full potential – and her research, teaching and coaching focuses on building stronger, more innovative and sustainable organisations. She’s an expert in adaptive leadership and helps teams build the mindset, skillset and toolset to adapt quickly and effectively to change.

Her work covers the full spectrum of leadership – including authenticity, the future of work, the growth mindset, psychological safety, hybrid leadership, responsible and inclusive leader transitions and building a feedback climate.

At Vlerick, Katleen heads our Centre for Excellence in Leading Adaptive Organisations. She teaches a broad audience – from Masters students to senior managers and HR professionals to engineers and doctors. Together with her team, she developed the Appreciative Leadership Profiler, a feedback tool that we use in most of our programmes.

Katleen’s research has featured in several renowned international journals – and she co-authored Making Your Way with our dean, Marion Debruyne. Outside of academia, Katleen is a passionate runner – and often compares leadership with running a marathon.

MY EXPERTISE

• Coaching
• Leadership
• Creativity
• Learning, training and development
• Psychological safety and feedback climate
• Growth mindset and adaptive mindset
• The future of work

Education

• Licenciaat Universiteit Gent (1996.10 — 2001.06)
• Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (2005)

Recent publications

• How employees are proactive in strategic behaviors
  Pfisterer, Matthias; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2021)

• Stretch yourself: Benefits and burdens of job crafting that goes beyond the job
  Rogiers, Philip; De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Viaene, Stijn (Academy of Management Discoveries, 2021)

• Business ecosystems. What do they mean for your company? And how do they impact your role as a leader?
  De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Peeters, Carine; Pfisterer, Matthias (2020)

• Making your way - De (hobbelige) weg naar succes en geluk in leven en werk
  Debruyne, Marion; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2020)

• Leaders developing themselves to help others grow. The role of leader identity and learning behavior
  Desmet, Lien; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2020)

• Making your way - The (wobbly) road to success and happiness in life and work
  Debruyne, Marion; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2020)

• Shifting focus: Antecedents and outcomes of proactive feedback seeking from peers
  De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Ashford, Susan; Zhang, C. (Human Relations, 2020)

• Learning agility: A double edged sword? Studying the impact of learning agility on task and creative performance
  Vandenbroucke, Astrid; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2019)

• Outcomes of team creativity: A person-environment fit perspective
  Bam, Louzanne; De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Vlok, PJ (Management Research Review, 2019)

• Adaptive leadership: Shape your path through turbulence
  De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Peeters, Carine; Pfisterer, Matthias; Muylle, Steve (2019)

• Learning agility: Learning from the data to move beyond the debate
  Vandenbroucke, Astrid; Buyens, Dirk; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2019)

• Job insecurity, knowledge hiding, and team outcomes
  Huang, Guohua; Lee, Cynthia; De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Wang, Li (2019)

• The self-made leader. The role of proactive behavior in leader emergence
  Desmet, Lien; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2018)

• Identifying employee potential through learning agility: A conceptual framework
  Vandenbroucke, Astrid; Buyens, Dirk; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2018)

• The role of learning agility in identifying employee potential
  Vandenbroucke, Astrid; Buyens, Dirk; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2018)

• Informal leader emergence in self-managing teams
  Desmet, Lien; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (2018)

• Dual judgment processing in feedback: Opening Pandora's box
  De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Desmet, Lien (Management Research - The Journal of the Iberoamarican Academy of Management, 2018)

• The inside effects of a strong external employer brand: how external perceptions can influence organizational absenteeism rates
  De Stobbeleir, Katleen; De Clippeleer, Inge; Caniels, Marjolein C.J.; Goedertier, Frank; Deprez, Jana; De Vos, Ans; Buyens, Dirk (International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018)

• How leaders shape the impact of HR's diversity practices on employee inclusion
  Buengeler, Claudia; Leroy, Hannes; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (Human Resource Management Review, 2018)

• Two roads to effectiveness: CEO feedback seeking, vision articulation, and firm performance
  Ashford, Susan; Wellman, Ned; de Luque, Mary Sully; De Stobbeleir, Katleen; Wollan, Melody (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2018)

• Why seeking feedback from diverse sources may not be sufficient for stimulating creativity: The role of performance dynamism and creative time pressure
  Sijbom, R.B.L.; Anseel, Frederik; Crommelinck, Michiel; De Beuckelaer, Alain; De Stobbeleir, Katleen (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2018)