Frederik Leloup

Frederik Leloup first pursued his passion for sailing in his early years and competed in Olympic class series for 10 years. He continued as skipper of the Belgium Sailing Team in the JOD35 series.

Having graduated from the IAG–Louvain School of Management (Belgium) and ESADE (Spain), he was among the inaugural group of CEMS Master in International Management graduates.

He ended his sailing career and studies to found his own company, Sailing Team.  Sailing Team owns fleets of racing yachts and offers recognized management team development programmes both at sea and in working sessions.  Most recently, Sailing Team enjoyed strong working relationships with most of the challengers at the 32nd America’s Cup.

In 2000, Frederik and his business partner were named Belgian independent entrepreneurs of the year.  In addition, Sailing Team was awarded the AMIE (World Award for Marketing Innovation and Excellence) by Arthur Andersen, Chicago.

Frederik Leloup is also a regular speaker at various business schools in pre and post-graduate programs for entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development.

Frederik Leloup joined Carbon Challenge as CEO of the Carbon Challenge Academy and will be able to apply his vast experience in the field of management training and coaching to develop Carbon Challenge Academy into a top-level platform of CO2 reduction know-how and a vital business leadership resource.

“Since I have a very active, international professional life and three children, my score is of course dramatic! My commitment is to reduce my scores by 30% for 2008 and to increase my level of performance as well as the quality of my life and my environment.

My first course of action in my professional life is to drastically reduce the number of flights. In my case it is going to make a huge difference. In my private life I am using the Carbon Challenge opportunity to launch a family project empowering my 3 children and obliging their parents to be consistent with their commitment. We will, for sure, use EarthLab to make pledges and evaluate the impact on our score.”

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