About the training
Join us for an interactive one-day GUBERNA Summer School, on June 24, bringing together governance leaders, and international experts. The day will explore how to embed the raw materials value chain within governance discussions, anticipating evolving human needs and global interdependencies. Participants will be invited to strengthen their own intuitive intelligence and complex thinking — key enablers of innovation and strategic foresight in an increasingly uncertain environment. Together, we will discuss how these human capacities can complement technological advances and strengthen informed decision making, as well as ethical responsibility.
To inspire and feed your reflection, we are very happy to welcome as keynote speakers:
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Janez Potočnik
Dr Janez Potočnik is an economist graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He served as Director of the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development in Ljubljana. He was appointed Head of Negotiating Team for Accession of Slovenia to the EU and served as Minister responsible for European Affairs.
In 2004 he joined the European Commission as Commissioner responsible for Science and Research. In that period among others, he introduced ERC – European Research Council. In 2010 he became Commissioner for Environment when he proposed the first Circular Economy package in EU policy space, a comprehensive vision kickstarting EU-wide efforts for an economy and society transformation.
After the mandate he was appointed as a Co-Chair of UNEP Environment International Resource Panel in 2014. He still holds that position. He is also Partner at SYSTEMIQ and one of the founders of the Systems Transformation Hub.
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Victoria Pellé Reimers
Victoria Pellé Reimers is a Franco-Swedish expert in intuitive intelligence and decision-making. She brings a cross-cultural, strategic perspective to perceptive intelligence in complex, high-stakes, multi-stakeholder environments. Her work positions intuitive intelligence as a critical leadership skill, helping decision-makers recognize emerging inflection points and act when analysis alone is insufficient.
A European Business School graduate, she has researched intuition since 2003 and became an NLP Master Practitioner in 2006. She developed IntuiKeys, a framework that maps intuitive profiles and provides actionable insights for decision-making.
Founder of Intuition Open Source, she works with leadership teams at organizations such as Leroy Merlin and Caisse des Dépôts, and delivers international seminars, including bespoke sessions for the YPO Global Family Business community. Since 2012, she has been a regular expert for APM (Association Progrès du Management).
We look forward to seeing you there to develop better governance practices together! Secure your seat (places are limited) by registering now.
More information will follow shortly on the details of the full day's programme. Stay tuned.
What to expect?
Q&A opportunities throughout the sessions to ask experts your questions
Crossed perspectives and exchange of experiences
Gain permanent education points as a GUBERNA Certified Director: 7 points
The sessions will be given predominantly in English
Certificate of completion for attending the full programme
Serendipity networking
Practicalities
The GUBERNA Summer School 2026 will take place at Mix Brussels, in the iconic Royale Belge building, right at the edge of Brussels and of the luscious greens of the Sonian Forest. A masterpiece of architecture and imagination, which has become a symbol of the circular economy.
B Corp certified, the Mix combines hospitality with social and ecological responsibility and challenges us to do our very best.
Mix Brussels, Boulevard du Souverain 25, 1170 Brussels
The price is €650 (excl. VAT) for GUBERNA members and €780 (excl. VAT) for non-members.
For Whom?
This programme is for members and non-members.
(Future) directors, enterpreneurs, CEOs, from listed and non-listed companies, private and public sectors, social profit organizations, SMEs, family businesses, start-up and scale-ups, research centra.
