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Rob Poell
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Professor of Human Resource Development (HRD) - Tilburg University (NL) - Workplace Learning - Research/Teaching/Consulting/Traveling/Live Music/Dining/Friends
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Once again, EE2025 highlights how executives bring home excessive pay relative to those at the coal face in all sectors.

(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
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Executive Excess 2025
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Presenting our paper comparing the HRD perspectives of employees, managers and HRD practitioners, at the Asian AHRD Conference in Bangkok Thailand! Differences found esp. between employees vs. managers and HRD practitioners, although the latter two also differed from each other in several ways #ahrd
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Happy to be back in Bangkok for the Asian AHRD Conference! Anyone else on BlueSky attending? #ahrd #AsianAHRD #ufhrd #UFHRDconference #BangkokConference
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Rob Poell
BREAKING. The New York Times is reporting the White House is planning to demolish the entire Eastwing of the White House.
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Please let this NOT be the future of academic work! Or is it too late to stop this nonsense already?
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I joined a quarter million people in Amsterdam to draw a red line for our far-right government to make them stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Not in my name!
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just published: “The Role of HR in Organizational Change: Facilitating Successful Change Planning, Implementation, and Sustainability of Organizational Restructuring”, by F Claessens, C Freese & R Poell (chapter, “Modern Cross-Cultural Management” ed. A Akande) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/modern-cro...
Modern Cross-Cultural Management: Understanding Diversity in Global Business|eBook
This book addresses the profound changes brought by digital technologies. Virtual teams, cloud-based collaboration, and real-time communication have eliminated geographical boundaries, creating a hype...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
(Only in Dutch, sorry!)

Zojuist verschenen in Tijdschrift voor Opleiding en Ontwikkeling: "Voorbij het westerse denken: Naar een culturele HRD-benadering" (Rob Poell, Valerie Anderson & Roziah Mohd Rasdi).

Gratis te downloaden: www.professioneelbegeleiden.nl/design-mei-2...

#hrd #HRdevelopment
May 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just published open access in Human Resource Development International: "Understanding leaders’ learning pathways in inclusive leadership: Integrating learning logs with guided reflection", by Rachel Verheijen-Tiemstra, Anje Ros, Marc Vermeulen & Rob Poell doi.org/10.1080/1367... #ahrd #academyofHRD
Understanding leaders’ learning pathways in inclusive leadership: integrating learning logs with guided reflection
In the field of Human Resource Development (HRD), inclusive leadership is emerging as an innovative approach to leadership development, reflecting the growing importance of collaboration in the evo...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Rob Poell
Such a pleasure to do this #HRD Masterclass podcast episode with Laura Bierema (@bierema.bsky.social) & Tomika Greer and moderated by Darren Short. I'm honoured to get to work with such brilliant people!
How To Rethink HRD
Podcast Episode · Human Resource Development Masterclass · 05/19/2025 · 54m
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May 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Joining a big demonstration in The Hague against the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza; demanding that the Dutch government draw a red line! #stopthegenocide
May 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Tilburg University on strike against the budget cuts on higher education! #woinactie #tilburguniversity #tiu
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Great to see so many #handsoff protests in the US! The people united can never be defeated …
April 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Volle Dam tegen fascisme en racisme!
March 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Editorial to our 6-article Frontiers in Psychology special issue on Advancing Coaching Scholarship is now published open access! Authors (and SI editors) are Sewon Kim, Rajashi Ghosh, Rob Poell & Terrence Maltbia. Thanks to all our authors and my co-editors! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Editorial: Advancing coaching scholarship
As coaching becomes a key developmental tool for executives, managers, and employees, the call for a solid theoretical and empirical basis is on the rise. Sc...
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March 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@saraheminnisphd.bsky.social glad to be connected again Sarah! I got so incredibly fed up with the Oval Office scene earlier today that I’ve been working on my Whatsapp network to switch to Signal ever since. We shall win
February 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@jellliott.bsky.social hi Carol, good to see you here! Pity you weren’t in DC, hopefully Belfast?
February 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The 2024 Sage Handbook of Human Resource Development I co-edited with Tonette Rocco and Lane Morris (us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...) tonight received the Book of the Year Award from the Academy of HRD! Thanks to our almost 100 authors for making this hefty volume a success! #ahrd #AcademyOfHRD
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Conference paper I co-authored with former MSc student Nhu Le Quynh won the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) Cutting Edge award! Based on her thesis work, it is entitled “Learning-Path Strategies of Engineers in Industry 4.0: What Learning Do Their Managers Deem Desirable for Them?”
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Traveling to Washington DC (well, technically Arlington VA) for the annual Academy of Human Resource Development conference. Haven’t missed a live one since 1997. Looking forward to catching up with long-time friends and colleagues! Who else will I see there? @ahrd @AcademyOfHRD #ahrd #AcademyOfHRD
February 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@jansenrjgimp.bsky.social hé naamgenoot, leuk dat je hier ook bent! Eens kijken of we de kring nog wat kunnen uitbreiden?
January 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Now available open access: 'Identifying story types of PhD candidates lecturing in higher professional education: “Ups and downs”, “turnaround”, “continuous growth”, and “scholarly recognition”', by Monica van Winkel, me et al. (Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education) doi.org/10.1108/SGPE...
Identifying story types of PhD candidates lecturing in higher professional education: “ups and downs”, “turnaround”, “continuous growth”, and “scholarly recognition” | Emerald Insight
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January 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Published open access i.e. freely accessible: "Career writing interventions for career learning: An integrative literature review", by Angela McNichol, Reinekke Lengelle & Rob Poell, in British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 52(6), 1151–1180. #ahrd #ufhrd #tiu #uvt doi.org/10.1080/0306...
Career writing interventions for career learning: an integrative literature review
This integrative literature review aimed to synthesise published research on the use of expressive, reflective and creative writing in a career context, known as Career Writing. Studies included En...
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January 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just out: "Development and Validation of the Workplace-Learning Structures Questionnaire (WLSQ): A Measurement Instrument Based on the Learning-Network Theory", by R. Poell, F. Van Der Krogt & M. Berings. In A. Akande (eds), Power, Politics and Influence. (Springer) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM