This year marks TIAS’s 40th anniversary. A wonderful milestone that we love to celebrate together with the people who make TIAS what it is: our alumni, participants, faculty, and partners.
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TIAS Experience Day: Expand your Perspective
26 November 2026
9.45 18.30 hour
Tilburg CampusWarandelaan 2, Tias Building5037 ABTilburgDirections
TIAS Experience Day: Expand your Perspective
For 40 years, we have been sharing knowledge, building valuable networks, and broadening perspectives. During the TIAS Experience Day, we bring the TIAS Community together for an inspiring day of connection, deeper learning, and new insights.
We warmly invite you to join us. Take your seat in the lecture hall once again, be inspired by our faculty, reconnect with old friends, and build new connections. And above all: celebrate 40 years of TIAS together with us.
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In short
Date: thursday, 26 november 2026
Time: 09.45 – 18.30
Location: TIAS Tilburg, Warandelaan 2
Costs: 40 euro, including lunch and networking drinks
A day to expand your perspectives
During the TIAS Experience Day, you will attend interactive workshops led by our experienced faculty. The workshops are divided into three themes: Leadership, Business, and Societal Impact. You can design your own schedule on the day of the event. Choose a deep dive into a single theme, or mix and match different perspectives to surprise yourself.
Across three workshop rounds, you will tackle current challenges surrounding leadership, AI, innovation, organizational development, and societal change.
But this day is about more than just gaining new knowledge. Reconnecting with others is just as important. Use the lunch break to catch up with former classmates, familiar faces, and lecturers, or to meet new people within the TIAS Community. In between sessions, you can stretch your legs in the Oude Warande woods or enjoy an extra cup of coffee in the TIAS building.
We will wrap up the Experience Day with festive celebratory drinks. The perfect moment to look back on the day together, exchange insights, and raise a glass to 40 years of TIAS. And, of course, to everything yet to come
Create your own schedule for the day
On the day of the event, you can design your own schedule. Each workshop will be held twice, allowing you to combine different perspectives. Choose the sessions that align with your interests, ambitions, and questions, or surprise yourself by exploring a theme outside your usual field.
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Program
09.45 - 10.15: Welcome with coffee and tea
10.15 - 12.00: Workshop round 1
12.00 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 15.00: Workshop round 2
15.00 - 15.30: Break
15.30 - 17.00: Workshop round 3
17.00 - 18.30: Networking drinks
Workshop overview
The workshops are divided into three learning tracks. You can choose to follow workshops within a single theme, or mix and match different topics.
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Ronald Meijers
The Leadership Access Code: what leaders need to navigate complexity.
Once we have clearly established what leadership is and what it is not, we can start exploring what it takes to lead successfully. What are the characteristics of leadership issues? How are they different from expert-issues?
In this workshop we will discover the qualities required to start playing 'leadership-lego'. Who do you want to lead? Why should they follow you? What's on your agenda? How can you assess and expand your portfolio of leadership styles? Let's make sure we look into the mirror first and out of the window next.
This workshop is available in both Dutch and English.
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Hans van Dijk
Inclusive Leadership
It sounds so simple: "Open yourself up to other perspectives, as they will enrich you." This lies at the very heart of the value of diversity. Yet, that potential often goes unrealized. In reality, the presence of differing perspectives initially triggers resistance, conflict, and the exclusion of certain viewpoints. In this session on inclusive leadership, participants will experience firsthand just how quickly this exclusion happens. By reflecting on the exercise, participants will learn actionable ways to become inclusive leaders who embrace diverse perspectives, helping their organizations to learn, grow, and innovate.
This workshop is available in both Dutch and English.
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Woody van Olffen
Not transformation, but evolution
In many organizations, change initiatives follow one another in rapid succession. Processes are improved, renewed, and reorganized, but often without clear direction. As a result, learning between initiatives remains limited, change energy becomes fragmented, and change fatigue and cynicism creep in.
In this session, we shift the focus from change to development. The central question is not 'what do we need to change?', but rather: 'what do we need to learn together to be ready for tomorrow's challenges?' This strategic developmental need forms the foundation for a clear development agenda: the collective capabilities an organization must strengthen, such as customer-centricity, sustainability, or AI-driven operations.
We will explore how this development mindset can deepen your perspective on your organization's future and how you can guide this process yourself. Which critical capability does your organization need to further develop over the next three years?
This workshop will be held in Dutch.
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Frieda van Belle
The Intelligent Organization: From AI Prompts to Strategic Capability
Your feeds confirm you. Your network confirms you. And now - your AI confirms you too. Generative AI is fast becoming the most persuasive echo chamber yet: confident, fluent, and quietly aligned with whatever you already think.
In this 90-minute workshop, Frieda van Belle (Fysje Consulting) turns that dynamic on its head. You won't just hear about critical thinking in the age of AI — you'll practise it. Bring a real decision you're wrestling with. Together we'll experiment with prompting techniques that force AI to challenge your assumptions, surface uncertainty, and argue the other side. Expect three short rounds of head, heart and hands: a sharp diagnosis of the echo-chamber trap, two hands-on labs with the AI tools you already use, and a peer-debrief that turns insight into a personal discipline.
Leave with a skill that could sharpen every decision you make with AI.
This workshop is available in both Dutch and English.
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Toni Sfirtsis
Beyond AI: building the intelligent organization
AI promises speed, scale, and sharper decision-making. But the uncomfortable truth is that technology is rarely smarter than the system it enters. An organization that is slow to learn, thinks in silos, and primarily automates existing routines does not become more intelligent through AI—at best, it becomes more efficient within its own limitations.
In this interactive workshop, we explore what it truly means to build an AI-powered organization: not as an end in itself, but as a lever for an organization that is fit for the future. Through thought-provoking examples, brief reflections, and an interactive exercise, participants will explore how AI can enhance strategic sensitivity, learning capacity, agility, and resilience.
The central question is not 'What can we do with AI?' but rather: 'What kind of organization must we become to utilize AI meaningfully?'
This workshop is available in both Dutch and English.
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Carla Koen
The Innovation Paradox: why companies keep investing in the past
Practically every organization today is investing in sustainability. Yet, a fundamental question often remains unanswered: why do so many sustainable innovations merely optimize the existing system, rather than driving real change?
In this interactive session, we explore why certain innovations scale seamlessly, whereas others—regardless of their strategic value—remain trapped in the phase of pilots, experiments, or internal resistance.
Using relatable case studies, incisive reflections, and short exercises, participants will examine the interplay between innovation, resilience, and long-term strategy in an environment of scarcity, uncertainty, and systemic change.
A session tailored for leaders who look beyond mere compliance—and wish to examine which future their organization is fundamentally strengthening today.
This workshop is available in both Dutch and English.
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Merel Feenstra
Why people and organizations get stuck in a world that keeps changing
Technological developments, AI, labor shortages, and societal shifts are accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Yet, the adaptability of people and organizations often lags behind. Not because change is impossible, but because we can unconsciously get stuck in routines, beliefs, roles, and organizational structures that were once successful.
In this interactive workshop, we explore why individuals, teams, and organizations get stuck while the world around them keeps changing. Drawing on insights from organizational psychology, research on the 'Locked at the Job' phenomenon, and current trends in AI and the future of work, participants will examine which patterns stimulate or hinder renewal.
Through reflection, dialogue, and an interactive exercise, participants are challenged to view their own careers, organizations, and leadership from a fresh perspective. The central question is not how we can force change, but how we can better learn, develop, and let go in a world that is constantly in motion.
This workshop will be held in Dutch.