Koenraad Van Brabant

Personal development; conscious leadership; responsible followership; active citizenship; careful stewardship; equitable partnerships

Begnins, Vaud, Switzerland

About

INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE, HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE, DIVERSE ROLES. For my work with you, I draw on 30+ years of reflected experience of engagement in complex and often volatile environments. Bringing substantive, methodological and managerial expertise for strategising, governance, collaboration and change at the organisational and programmatic level, and from analysis over planning and implementation to evaluation. With enabling and capacity-developing competencies through training, facilitation, coaching, strategic advising and partnership-brokering.

Experience

  • Global Mentoring Initiative (10 yrs 2 mos)
    • Co-director at Global Mentoring Initiative
      May 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

    • Co Executive Director
      May 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

  • Co-Director at Global Mentoring Initiative - www.gmentor.org
    Jan 2016 - Aug 2025 · 9 yrs 8 mos

    My service offer includes substantive, methodological and/or personal, team or organisational development support. My roles can vary or evolve between 'doing', 'facilitating', 'advising', 'mentoring and accompaniment', 'training' & 'review/evaluation'. Contact me to find out whether there is a good fit!

  • Senior Peacebuilding Advisor at Interpeace International Peacebuilding Advisory Team
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Leading or supporting conflict reduction and peacebuilding efforts of or for various organisations (UN, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, national and local authorities, NGOs) with thematic and methodological advice and innovative training development. Major achievements: 1. A ground breaking participatory Peace, Development, Security analysis in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, providing new insights in the problematic governance relationship & generating new momentum for the peace and governance work. 2. Development and delivery of an innovative course on ‘Effective Advising in International Cooperation Contexts’ commissioned by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs also for its Swiss Expert Pool; 3. Different possible business models for the Advisory Team researched.

  • Part-time Consultant at Navigation 360
    Dec 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Part time consultant in different roles: facilitating of strategic analysis & planning; evaluation; training

  • Interpeace (Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Head of Knowledge Management
      Feb 2005 - Jan 2012 · 7 yrs

      Resource person for the organisation and partners on capturing, structuring and transmitting the collective experience. Working with programme officers and new and established national partner teams (15) on various aspects of programme design, strategic review and evaluation. Major achievements: 1. Multiple organizational resource materials produced and seen used. 2. Organisational evaluation capacity strengthened. 3. Effective focal point for donor-commissioned evaluation of the organization. 4. Several multi-country research projects delivered. 5. Effective coordination of global civil society engagement with the inter-state International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. 6. Annual course on Senior Leadership developed and delivered.

    • Deputy & Acting Director Operations
      Jun 2003 - Jan 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Providing managerial oversight and support to existing programmes with national partners worth $ 12 million & driving the feasibility assessment of new programmatic initiatives. supporting programme officers with proposals and donor reports. Major achievements. 1. Helping to rebuild donor and staff confidence after an organizational financial crisis. 2. Concluding the feasibility assessment in Burundi and deciding the choice of national partner. 3. Driving the organisational learning related to the premature termination of the Macedonia programme.