Brainport
Future Leaders programme
Become part of the new generation of Brainport leaders. As a people-centered leader, you take responsibility for your own future and the future of Brainport. Because in a rapidly changing world, strong leaders, teams and organisations continue to make the difference. Together, you are the Future Leaders of the region.
Train your leadership and see the impact in your team’s results. Together, you reach faster decisions with stronger buy-in, and you boost productivity. You make sure talent develops and wants to stay. Your team stays resilient and agile, even as customers and technological developments demand constant change.
In short
- Break the patterns that hold you back and use your strengths more intentionally.
- Build team performance with insights from elite sports.
- Consciously choose between leadership styles when the situation calls for it.
- Learn to lead in an environment that is rapidly changing due to AI.
- Tackle current challenges in the Brainport ecosystem.
Audience
Ambitious leaders, 1 to 5 years in a leadership role
Duration
February to June 2027
Time investment
5 group days, 4 individual sessions and 1 hour per week self paced learning
Location
Brainport region
Investment
€6,900 excl. VAT
Brainport Future Leaders programme
For five months you work on your development as a leader. Individually and with a select, diverse group from the Brainport region. Outside your day-to-day context you meet leaders and speakers from the region and discover new perspectives from behavioural science, business and elite sport.
In individual sessions, you work with a behavioural coach on your leadership, your strengths and your behaviour under pressure. During group days, your peers challenge you in groups of varying sizes, using action-oriented formats.
At unique locations within Brainport, you broaden your view of leadership and the region, alongside other leaders from established to growing organisations, and from technical companies to professional services. You translate your insights into practice and work on current [L5.1]challenges in your own working environment.
About Fanbased
Fanbased is the training institute for performing under pressure. A team of experienced coaches and psychologists with a background in elite sport. We help ambitious leaders, teams and organisations change behaviour for good.
Visit the Fanbased website↗Modules
Accelerate your personal growth
Gain insight into your own style, qualities, drivers and behaviour in individual sessions. You explore what makes you strong as a leader and where your patterns and pitfalls show under pressure.
Build a inclusive high-performing team
Using leading models and insights on team development, you explore what makes teams strong and learn to apply it directly in your own team. From trust and having the real conversation to taking responsibility and achieving results together.
Grow as an authentic and adaptive leader
Learn to switch gears in complex and dynamic environments. Leadership calls for adaptability. You learn to consciously match your style to what a situation, team or individual needs and keep developing as a leader.
Lead change in digital transformation and AI
Leadership in a world that keeps changing. AI is changing how organisations work, how teams collaborate and how decisions are made. You discover what this asks of leadership and how to give direction in change and uncertainty.
Make an impact on a current Brainport challenge
Put leadership into practice. A current challenge is the starting point. You bring different perspectives together, make choices and experience what leadership asks of you when interests, uncertainty and complexity meet.
Grow your network in the Brainport ecosystem
Increase your impact and network within the Brainport ecosystem. Because leadership doesn't stop at your team or organisation. You learn to handle different interests and perspectives and to move effectively within the regional network.
Brainport
Future Leaders programme
Become part of the new generation of Brainport leaders. As a people-centered leader, you take responsibility for your own future and the future of Brainport. Because in a rapidly changing world, strong leaders, teams and organisations continue to make the difference. Together, you are the Future Leaders of the region.
Train your leadership and see the impact in your team’s results. Together, you reach faster decisions with stronger buy-in, and you boost productivity. You make sure talent develops and wants to stay. Your team stays resilient and agile, even as customers and technological developments demand constant change.
In short
- Break the patterns that hold you back and use your strengths more intentionally.
- Build team performance with insights from elite sports.
- Consciously choose between leadership styles when the situation calls for it.
- Learn to lead in an environment that is rapidly changing due to AI.
- Tackle current challenges in the Brainport ecosystem.
Audience
Ambitious leaders, 1 to 5 years in a leadership role
Duration
February to June 2027
Time investment
5 group days, 4 individual sessions and 1 hour per week self paced learning
Location
Brainport region
Investment
€6,900 excl. VAT
Brainport Future Leaders programme
For five months you work on your development as a leader. Individually and with a select, diverse group from the Brainport region. Outside your day-to-day context you meet leaders and speakers from the region and discover new perspectives from behavioural science, business and elite sport.
In individual sessions, you work with a behavioural coach on your leadership, your strengths and your behaviour under pressure. During group days, your peers challenge you in groups of varying sizes, using action-oriented formats.
At unique locations within Brainport, you broaden your view of leadership and the region, alongside other leaders from established to growing organisations, and from technical companies to professional services. You translate your insights into practice and work on current [L5.1]challenges in your own working environment.
About Fanbased
Fanbased is the training institute for performing under pressure. A team of experienced coaches and psychologists with a background in elite sport. We help ambitious leaders, teams and organisations change behaviour for good.
Visit the Fanbased website↗Modules
Accelerate your personal growth
Gain insight into your own style, qualities, drivers and behaviour in individual sessions. You explore what makes you strong as a leader and where your patterns and pitfalls show under pressure.
Build a inclusive high-performing team
Using leading models and insights on team development, you explore what makes teams strong and learn to apply it directly in your own team. From trust and having the real conversation to taking responsibility and achieving results together.
Grow as an authentic and adaptive leader
Learn to switch gears in complex and dynamic environments. Leadership calls for adaptability. You learn to consciously match your style to what a situation, team or individual needs and keep developing as a leader.
Lead change in digital transformation and AI
Leadership in a world that keeps changing. AI is changing how organisations work, how teams collaborate and how decisions are made. You discover what this asks of leadership and how to give direction in change and uncertainty.
Make an impact on a current Brainport challenge
Put leadership into practice. A current challenge is the starting point. You bring different perspectives together, make choices and experience what leadership asks of you when interests, uncertainty and complexity meet.
Grow your network in the Brainport ecosystem
Increase your impact and network within the Brainport ecosystem. Because leadership doesn't stop at your team or organisation. You learn to handle different interests and perspectives and to move effectively within the regional network.
Timeline
What it brings you
As a participant
Invest in your own leadership and broaden your view. You learn from other leaders, work on your personal development and build a network that reaches beyond your own organisation.
- A concrete action plan for your growth as a leader.
- Confident in how you lead, flexible in how you adapt.
- Delegate effectively and build trust.
- A strong network within Brainport.
As an organisation
Developing leadership across organisations keeps valuable talent in Brainport. That way organisations invest together in good leaders and the future of the region.
- Retain talent by making room for development.
- Higher productivity and improved decision making in teams.
- Teams that embrace change.
- Develop future leadership in your organisation.
What it brings you
As a participant
Invest in your own leadership and broaden your view. You learn from other leaders, work on your personal development and build a network that reaches beyond your own organisation.
- A concrete action plan for your growth as a leader.
- Confident in how you lead, flexible in how you adapt.
- Delegate effectively and build trust.
- A strong network within Brainport.
As an organisation
Developing leadership across organisations keeps valuable talent in Brainport. That way organisations invest together in good leaders and the future of the region.
- Retain talent by making room for development.
- Higher productivity and improved decision making in teams.
- Teams that embrace change.
- Develop future leadership in your organisation.
Experts
Peter Bosz
Head coach PSV - High performing inclusive teams
Carlo van de Weijer
General Manager Eindhoven AI Systems Institute
Yvon Beliën
Performance coach and olympic volleyball player
Tim Swaen
Performance coach, sociologist and hockey international
Brainport expert
To be announced
Tim Jenniskens
Leadership expert and olympic hockey player
Experience with Fanbased
Is this for you?
- You have 1 to 5 years of leadership experience.
- You’re an ambitious leader working in the Brainport region.
- You are willing to challenge others and be challenged yourself.
This programme is for leaders who want to deepen and accelerate their own development and that of Brainport. You have already achieved results and built or taken over a team.
Places are limited. Through a selection process, we bring together a diverse group in which participants strengthen each other. This creates an optimal learning environment.
Sign up for an intake→Questions & answers
The investment of €6,900 excl. VAT covers the full programme, including a personality profile through Reflact® and a certificate. Lunch, dinner and an overnight stay are included during both two-day sessions. Lunch is included on the group day.
You apply through the form on this page. We’ll then contact you to schedule an intake conversation, in which we discuss your ambitions, your development goals and how well the programme fits. You’ll hear whether you’ve been selected within one week of the conversation.
Places are limited. Through a selection process, we bring together a diverse group in which participants strengthen each other. We look at your experience, your development goals and your motivation, as well as the mix of sectors and backgrounds in the group. This creates an optimal learning environment.
The group days take place at inspiring locations in the Brainport region. The individual sessions can be held in person at the Fanbased office in Eindhoven or online.
The programme is delivered in Dutch. If there are international participants, the group days will be in English.
Is this for you?
- You have 1 to 5 years of leadership experience.
- You’re an ambitious leader working in the Brainport region.
- You are willing to challenge others and be challenged yourself.
This programme is for leaders who want to deepen and accelerate their own development and that of Brainport. You have already achieved results and built or taken over a team.
Places are limited. Through a selection process, we bring together a diverse group in which participants strengthen each other. This creates an optimal learning environment.
Sign up for an intake→Questions & answers
The investment of €6,900 excl. VAT covers the full programme, including a personality profile through Reflact® and a certificate. Lunch, dinner and an overnight stay are included during both two-day sessions. Lunch is included on the group day.
You apply through the form on this page. We’ll then contact you to schedule an intake conversation, in which we discuss your ambitions, your development goals and how well the programme fits. You’ll hear whether you’ve been selected within one week of the conversation.
Places are limited. Through a selection process, we bring together a diverse group in which participants strengthen each other. We look at your experience, your development goals and your motivation, as well as the mix of sectors and backgrounds in the group. This creates an optimal learning environment.
The group days take place at inspiring locations in the Brainport region. The individual sessions can be held in person at the Fanbased office in Eindhoven or online.
The programme is delivered in Dutch. If there are international participants, the group days will be in English.