About Peter Van Den Steene

Peter Van Den Steene

I am a speaker, communications expert, strategist and philosopher but above all I am a cosmopolitan and I firmly believe that the great opportunity of the world of today resides in the fact that we can live the adventure of many cultures and manifold identities.

Socrates famously stated that the unexamined life is not worth living and I believe that this is even more true today as we are bombarded with so much information and we are lost as to what to believe and what to distrust. Moreover, many people make a living out of trying to deceive others, so we had better be aware of the pitfalls.

In our postmodern world, truth is often a matter of mere opinion and the battle of opinions is raging all around us. I am passionate about deconstructing fallacies, debunking myths, giving a voice to all perspectives and allowing new hybrid cultures to emerge.

More than ever, a wider understanding of things is needed which means that we need to think without borders instead of merely thinking outside of the box, because the box itself has disappeared.

But being wise is not enough: communications are key and I devote my professional and private life to making sure that people have the right skills and tools to share their wisdom. Nothing saddens me more when I see how many valuable insights are never given a chance as they are overpowered by the clamor of empty rhetoric. When a truthful perspective is not given a chance to be heard, it is not only the person expressing it who loses out, but society as a whole.

I hope we will be able to explore together new ways to add meaning and impact to your life or to your organisation.

Peter Van Den Steene

Founder

Paradigma