Speakers
Xavier Baeten’s interests include stakeholder engagement, materiality, executive rewards, responsible rewards, aligning rewards with company strategy and culture, reward communication, flexible rewards, and pay-for-performance. He has a strong interest in the implications of digital transformation and corporate sustainability on rewards. He bridges theory and practice by combining a strong academic record with close collaboration with a large number of organisations.
He heads Vlerick Centre for Excellence in Strategic Rewards and Executive Remuneration Research Centre. He teaches Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility in Vlerick’s Masters and MBA programmes, and Compensation & Benefits on executive programmes.
Xavier helps organisations develop reward strategies – and he’s an independent member of remuneration committees and advisory boards. He’s a member of the remuneration committee of VGD, he chairs the Impact & ESG Committee of Junction Growth Investors, and he’s a member of the Socially Responsible Investment Board and the External Sustainability Board of KBC. He speaks frequently at industry and academic events.
Sofie Van Breedam: Partner at Deloitte – Global Employer Services
Sofie is specialised in the broad scope of reward, including reward strategy, tax & legal analysis and compliance. She leads Deloitte’s reward team, assisting both international as Belgian clients, both public as private clients. This includes reward strategy, equity and incentives, pension and benefits, flexible benefits, executive reward, M&A related reward topics, in-depth tax advisory, and more. Next to that, Sofie is the Tax & Legal sustainability lead, closely connecting with the sustainability consulting team, strongly committed to help clients on their sustainability journey, including advice on legal obligations, policy drafting linked to the different sustainability platforms, assisting clients to obtain funds and incentives, apply tax efficient measures and advise on ESG KPIs linked to executives’ bonus plans.
Xavier Baeten: Professor of Management Practice in Reward & Governance
