About Ralf
 
Listen carefully to the subtle voice of your inner bliss

During his life, Ralf had the chance to peek into many different professions. He started as electrician, delved into social work and more by accident, studied Business Administration. He was intrigued by social research and collected extensive work experience as an organizational sociologist in organization studies while becoming managing director of a joint research and consulting group in Switzerland. He currently works as a Pro­fessor of Organization and Applied Arts at Vlerick Business School in Belgium. 

There, he was deeply affected by Performing Arts like improvisation theatre and theatre clown. He studied theatre clown and mask work extensively with Lee Delong (F/US) since by now eight years. Other important clown and theatre teachers have been Avner Eisenberg (US), Keith Johnstone (CA), John Turner (CA), Inbal Lori (ISR), Peta Lily (UK), and Patch Adams (US). 

By means of his theatre work, he found a completely new access to life and to research about life in particular. He is a passion­ate improvisation theatre player and loves to give his own clown all the space it needs to bring fun and laughter to theatres but also to refugee shelters and pedestrian zones.

He is very happy of his portfolio of now five shows, of which two are mask performances, one is a red-nose-clown show with all together eight clowns on stage and two dramatic improvisation shows. They brought him to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Brighton Fringe Festival, the Zagreb Clown Festival and received enthusiastic recognition by the Financial Times, the FringeReview and Entertainment Now.  

As ca business educator, Ralf is unique in the way he explores the territory beyond the trodden paths of management science to provide inspiring insights ena­bling his clients to excel in today’s VUCA world. Highly successful train­ing and coaching formats employ dif­ferent art forms like improvisation theatre, movement & dance, surreal painting and mask work/clowning to bring lead­ers safely and playfully in new contact with them­-selves to allow for transformational change.