Professor Wierdsma’s focus in teaching and research is in the area of organisational change, learning organisation, organisational dynamics, complex decision making, cross cultural communication, interface management and leadership. He was Director of Executive MBA, Director of In-company programmes and presently Director of Advanced Management programme (AMP). He has extensive teaching experiences in various countries including China, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, South Africa, and the United States. He has been working in China as visiting faculty with CEIBS and its earlier incarnation CEMI since 1986.

Professor Wierdsma is co-author of Becoming a Learning Organisation, an award-winning best seller. His Ph.D. thesis Co-creation of Change was nominated as “Best Book of the Year” by the Dutch Association of Organisational Consultants. In the book a methodology for organisational change is built on such new conceptual frameworks on knowledge development, transactional organising and collective learning. His latest books are: Leading Co-creation of Change and Organising for Learning.

Professor Wierdsma has extensive experience in designing and teaching executive development programmes. He is co-founder of the Executive Management Development Centre (EMDC) of Nyenrode Business Universiteit. The companies he has worked with include ABN-AMRO, Aegon, Digital, Danzas, DHV consultants, DHL, DSM, Dutch Railways, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Fortis, KPMG, IBM, ING, PTT-Telecom, Philips, Randstad, Shell, Siemens, Schneider and others.