Jef Staes
Speaker - Author - ExperT
Who is Jef Staes?
Jef Staes (Belgium, 1956) is an authority on learning processes, management and innovation. After a career as Software Designer in digital telephone, Project Management, founder of an In-Company Open Learning Center, Training Manager and Corporate Learning Officer (Siemens Belgium), he now assists CEO’s and organizations to find a comprehensive answer to the changing dynamics of today’s market.
It is the fusion of his experience in digital technology and his experience in the field of learning and development that forms the basis of a unique, confrontational and pragmatic view on learning, working and innovation. He has learned the hard way that technology, and now Artificial Intelligence, don’t transform organizations into learning or innovative organizations but cement organizations in their current status.
To use technology as an enabler for learning and innovation you have to be confronted with the real challenge: “Why don’t organizations learn and innovate fast enough?”
Jef answers this question. He has written a number of books on this topic, including the Red Monkey Trilogy, and has been a popular speaker at numerous international conferences (incl. 4 times TEDx speaker).
His legacy challenge is building the Red Monkey Company and bringing the Red Monkey Story and the Engine of Innovation Operating System into the world of organizational development.