Jakob van Wielink

Jakob van Wielink, MA is a friend and a father who helps leaders and their organizations find and live their calling. Jakob is a partner at De School voor Transitie (‘The School for Transition’), a leadership consultancy and training firm in the Netherlands. Jakob serves as an executive coach for the (Advanced) High Performance Leadership Program of IMD Business School (Switzerland and Singapore) and is a faculty mentor for the
Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (USA).

Jakob is a published author in the field of leadership, loss and transition. In 2019, Routledge published Jakob’s Loss, grief and attachment in Life Transitions. A Clinician’s Guide to Secure Base Counseling.

Jakob van Wielink in Kosmos

Leading In Unknown Terrain

Many are questioning their true calling during this “time-out,” as they experience that being overly attached to roles and activities does not lead to true joy.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,