Dianne Bevelander

Dianne is a Professor of Management Education at RSM, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Her experience involves the full gamut of leadership and management demands, including driving organizational change that supported the RSM becoming an international recognized and ranked institution. She served for many years as the Associate Dean for MBA Programs as well as a Statutory Director of the RSM BV, the company through which Erasmus University offers its MBA programs and executive education portfolio.

Currently, Dianne is leading the drive for women empowerment at the RSM and across the broader Erasmus University. She is the Executive Director of the recently established Erasmus Centre for Women and Organizations. Leading through innovation, Dianne designed a women's only elective at RSM focusing on the empowerment of women aspiring to leadership roles using the mountain (Mt Kilimanjaro) as an outside classroom, and as a metaphor for business. She also develops and runs Women in Leadership Executive courses and Master classes.

Teaching highlights include: (a) developing the curricula and serving as the lead faculty for the personal leadership development across the full portfolio of MBA programs; and (b) teaching leadership development and managing people for students and executives across five continents. Often requested are her women empowerment workshops that she also delivers across the globe.

Dianne’s primary research interests relate to management education and diversity with a particular emphasis on the career development of professional women. She has published in Harvard Business Review, among others. In January 2020 Dianne was profiled in Harper’s Bazaar in an issue that focused on women leaders, she has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Huffington Post and Business Week

She has an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a PhD from the University of Lulea, Sweden.