Meet your Program Directors

Dr Leleux is the Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD, where he serves as Program Director of Winning Sustainability Strategies and Foundations for Business Leadership. He was previously Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and Director of the 3i VentureLab and Associate Professor and Zubillaga Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Babson College (USA). Prior to his academic career, he was the head of corporate venturing for a leading agribusiness conglomerate in South East Asia.

He is the author of a number of books, including “Winning Sustainability Strategies: finding purpose, driving innovation and executing change” (2019). His teaching cases have earned more than 20 European case writing awards and he has been ranked #19 in the Case Center’s top-40 best-selling case authors for 2018/19.

Jan is Co-founder of Finch & Beak, a European consultancy specialized in accelerating sustainability. He teaches at IMD and Moscow School of Management, and is co-author of “Winning Sustainability Strategies: finding purpose, driving innovation and executing change” (2019).

Jan is a creative sustainability expert in strategy development, DJSI and sustainable innovation, with a hands-on approach. He founded his sustainability advisory business in 1997, and over the past two decades he and his team have advised multinationals and family businesses such as McDonald’s, Telenet, DSM, Miguel Torres, Randstad, LANXESS and H.J. Heinz. Jan’s speciality is designing value generating sustainability strategies, and effectively implementing them into the core of the business.