--- title: Knowledge Hub | Dr Ido van der Heijden description: "Ido has an established reputation for over 35 years, as an expert in developing self –awareness and emotional intelligence in organisations. He is a Dutchman, living in the UK since 1979 and a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield School of Management. He pioneered the in-depth personal development work at Cranfield since 1980 and later co-founded The Praxis Centre.\n\nIdo graduated as a clinical psychologist in 1976 and since then received extensive postgraduate training in different forms of psychotherapy. His knowledge and experience covers a wide spectrum of approaches to human development ranging from Freudian psychology to NLP and Meditation.\n\nHe has over three decades of experience as a consultant to many leading multinational companies and has worked with several hundred Leaders and Executive Teams worldwide.\n\nIdo combines an ability to gain rapid insight into a person’s issues with the skill and sensitivity required to address those issues in a direct and supportive way. His penetrating, humorous style helps people to be more open than they usually are.\n\nHis work over the years has proven to create major and sustainable improvements in the quality of people’s work and personal lives." --- [![Marques-SoM](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Marques-SoM.png?width=85&name=Marques-SoM.png)](https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som)   - [Home](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge) - Featured - [CEO Summit](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/ceo-summit-2021) - Categories - [Changing World of Work](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/changing-world-of-work) - [Digital Transformation](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/digital-transformation) - [Economics](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/economics) - [Entrepreneurship](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/entrepreneurship) - [Finance and Accounting](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/finance-and-accounting) - [Implementation](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/implementation) - 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