Get a holistic, interdisciplinary and collaborative view on the complexity and dynamics of the Energy Transition. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and DRIFT partnered to offer you an intense, high-paced and interactive programme. Gain the knowledge, skills and network to challenge your mindset, and become a change agent. Move your organisation forward and motivate your team, to successfully reach your Energy Transition goals.
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During this four-day intense programme delivered by experienced faculty from RSM and DRIFT, you will get a holistic view on the Energy Transition. You'll approach it from five perspectives: leadership & transformation, geopolitics, technology/operations, finance & innovation and social engagement & stakeholder management. This programme offers a unique mix of academic excellence and know-how, practical application and reflection.
Supported by leading professors and expert practitioners, you will take a deep dive into the different perspectives of the Energy Transition through interactive lectures, case studies, simulations, project and group work, site visits and inspiring guest speakers. RSM’s Leading the Energy Transition programme will take you on a learning path, during which you will be confronted with the urgency of the Energy Transition. You will learn to embrace the complex process that leads to Energy Transition, experience how to move forward in highly uncertain circumstances, and how to adopt a transformative attitude through connectivity. Your learning will be directly applicable to your own complex Energy Transition challenge in your organisation. Take on the challenge for your organisation. Become part of the solution.
*Your application will be final once we have informed you, based on the intake call, that your application has been accepted. If you don’t meet the admission requirements, but want to deepen your understanding and technical knowledge on energy transition, we advise you to look at our Navigating Energy Transition Complexities programme instead.
“The programme surpassed my expectations with its carefully curated set of activities that stretched us and drew out how, as committed global citizens, we can contribute to the system-wide changes we need to make. This programme supports my ongoing evaluative and analytical work to steer the Green Climate Fund towards meeting the challenges of funding and designing investments for paradigm shifts and transitions across energy, building, industry and transport systems – alongside harnessing the potential of ecosystem-based approaches.
The course encouraged all of us participants to commit to our climate values – we can all learn from each other and contribute to solving the climate crisis.”
During Leading the Energy Transition Programme you will learn from Derk Loorbach, Prof. Carla Irene Koen, Dr Steve Kennedy, Louise van Schaik and Dr Ferdinand Jaspers. Occasionally we may substitute other faculty members according to the content of the programme and their availability.
Derk Loorbach is director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Derk is one of the founders of the transition management approach as new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker in and outside Europe.
Steve Kennedy is Associate Professor of Business Sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research approaches how systems and resilience thinking can help organizations to tackle grand societal challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Dr Kennedy has experience collaborating with partners on sustainability in a wide variety of sectors including finance, construction, agriculture, electronics, and chemicals. His research has featured in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, Journal of Cleaner Production and Business Strategy & the Environment.
Ferdinand Jaspers is programme director at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. He teaches innovation leadership, strategy and entrepreneurship through courses, masterclasses and boot camps to help entrepreneurs move beyond lean start-up, design thinking, business modelling and effectuation. With experts from DSM and ING, Ferdinand founded the ECE Innovation Leadership executive programme.
Hannes Leroy is a full professor of leadership development at RSM and academic director of the Erasmus Centre for Leadership. He holds a PhD in applied economics and organisational leadership from the University of Leuven in Belgium and has taught at renowned business schools worldwide (e.g., Johnson School of Business, Cornell University). Hannes’s expertise lies in developing authentic and inclusive leadership and in facilitating personal development by bringing people out of their comfort zones. Published in top-tier journals, his research reflects on effective leadership in organisations, particularly on how to develop leaders.
Dr. Johannes Claeys is Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management at IESEG School of Management in France. He obtained his PhD at Tilburg University, the Netherlands in 2017. His research field covers management, leadership and strategy and ethics. Johannes published articles on authentic leadership, leadership behaviour and development. Furthermore, he was co-author of several book publications. Johannes was awarded for Best Paper award Annual Academy of Management Meeting for his research on ‘Leadership development beyond developing leader: A multi-narrative understanding of effectiveness’.
7 - 10 October 2025
€ 5,200 (excl. 21% VAT) including course materials, lunches, and snacks. This fee does not include hotel accommodation.
15% discount for alumni from Erasmus University Rotterdam and RSM. Discounts are not cumulative.
NGOs price: € 2,600(excl. 21% VAT)
All our short courses can also be delivered as personalised in-company training to groups of employees from the same organisation. This enables us to develop a course that focuses on your organisation’s own situation and issues.
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