Conference speaker | management training | leadership development


Welcome to the website of Erik Vermeulen, a professional conference speaker and expert on leadership development and management training, helping businesses understand how their interaction with employees and customers affect profitability.


As an international business speaker, Erik delivers thought provoking and take-home style content in an energetic and captivating manner. Erik’s measure of success is that the audience should be able to leave the conference with immediately actionable insights and tips. His clients benefit from his natural ability to put real-life business issues into perspective; offering solutions to team and leadership issues in diverse business environments.


In the field of corporate culture development, Erik has developed a process-based model that allows for the creation of a culture that “gets off the wall” and into every employee’s day-to-day behaviour. This process allows for both management and employee input and takes into account personal as well as company goals.


His management training programs will equip your team with fundamental interpersonal skills, innovative problem solving strategies, steps to managing time for results and brilliant speaking and presenting.

Recent posts

How to mediate a Staff Dispute.

In a dispute between staff members, attitudes tend to get in the way of resolving the issue. People base their actions on perceptions and ego, rather than the facts of the case or the issues at hand.

Different behaviourial styles will also influence the tone, pace and nature of the dispute, with Amiables and Analyticals tending to avoid and back away from the dispute. This action leads the dominant styles (Drivers and Expressives) to believe either that they are right, or that the other party is “spinelss” and “push-overs”.

Here are some hints to deal with staff disputes as a manager.

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