Erik Giebels

Performance | Collaboration | Leadership

Why do people often manage to do all sorts of things on Saturdays that they don't get around to on Mondays? According to Erik Giebels, the answer doesn't lie with the people, but in the way organisations are structured. After fourteen years of working with top athletes, Olympic coaches, and TeamNL, he discovered that sustainable top performances arise when the entire organisation is designed to support the person who needs to perform.

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About Erik Giebels

Why has the Netherlands ranked among the most successful elite sports nations in the world for years? According to Erik Giebels, the answer lies not only in talent but especially in how performances are organised.

For over twenty years, Erik has guided boards and management teams in improving performance, collaboration, and leadership. Additionally, for the past fourteen years, he has worked closely with elite athletes, Olympic coaches, and performance specialists from TeamNL. This unique combination led him to a striking insight: organisations can learn a lot from the backstage of elite sports.

According to Erik, it’s not the medal winners who are the secret to success but the system behind them. Coaches, staff, data, facilities, communication, and collaboration are all set up around one question: how do we enable people to perform at their best?

This idea forms the basis of his book “Topsport op de Werkvloer.” Shortly after its release, the book reached the number 2 position in the Managementboek Top 100. A preview article appeared on Managementboek.nl around the book, and in the podcast of the same name, Erik talks with elite athletes, Olympic coaches, and TeamNL experts about the backstage of sustainable top performance.

During his keynotes, Erik takes his audience behind the scenes of TeamNL. He shows why many organisations unknowingly lose energy to coordination, meetings, waiting times, unclear priorities, and internal processes, while top performances occur when the organisation fully serves the people who deliver value to customers daily. Just as athletes are central at TeamNL, so they are enabled to show their best performance.

His lectures are energetic, substantial, and immediately applicable. They change the way leaders look at their organisations. Because in elite sports, the organisation serves the athlete. Erik shows why successful organisations do exactly the same for the people who deliver value to their customers daily.