Luc Van der Hofstadt: Expert Performance

Executive business coach and performance strategist Luc Van der Hofstadt helps leaders and teams optimize energy, focus, and performance through science-based coaching and high-impact methodologies.

Quick Facts:

  • Highlights:
    • Executive coach with over 20 years of international experience
    • Founder and managing director of Mentally Fit Institute South Africa
    • Lecturer at leading global business schools including INSEAD
    • Certified coach and accredited team dynamics specialist
  • Formats:

    Executive business coach, leadership facilitator, and keynote speaker

  • Audience:

    Executive teams, senior leaders, high-performance managers, corporate organizations, and institutions seeking sustainable performance improvement.

  • Outcomes:
    1. Improved leadership energy and focus
    2. Stronger, more aligned high-performing teams
    3. Practical tools to sustain performance under pressure
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  • Travels from: Cape Town

Keynote Topics

Keynote speaking is a mini-training: it opens the minds, creates a common language and gives a collective impulse to your organization from Luc Van der Hofstadt.

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Maximum impact in a minimum amount of time

Talent Short Bio

Luc Van der Hofstadt is an internationally respected executive business coach and the founder of the Mentally Fit Institute South Africa. He has worked as an executive coach with the Mentally Fit Institute since 2000, supporting leaders, teams, and organizations across multiple continents to achieve sustained high performance.

Luc holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Antwerp and is a Certified Coach through the Institute of Neurocognitivism. He is also a Belbin Team Role Accredited Trainer, equipping him with a strong foundation in team dynamics, leadership behavior, and performance psychology. Alongside his coaching practice, Luc teaches at leading international business schools, including INSEAD in Paris.

He is co-author of the book Management Assistant and regularly facilitates individual and team coaching sessions for executive committees, senior managers, and high-potential individuals within corporate and institutional environments worldwide. His work spans diverse industries and cultural contexts, with a consistent focus on translating insight into measurable performance outcomes.

Luc Van der Hofstadt is an Executive Business Coach at the Mentally Fit Institute since 2000.

He holds a Masters in Law from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), is a Certified Coach from the Institute of Neurocognitivism and is a Belbin Team Role Accredited Trainer.

He teaches at various international Business Schools such as Insead Paris and is co-author of the book “Management Assistant”.

He regularly directs team and individual coaching sessions for Executive Committees, Managers and Individuals for corporate and institutional clients in various countries around the world. 

As an international facilitator and motivational speaker, Luc coaches and inspires on team dynamics, advices individuals, leaders and managers how to manage their own energy, their team members’ energy and their organizational energy in our diverse world.

Luc Van der Hofstadt also manages the Mentally Fit Institute South Africa which he founded.

Energized people and energized teams guarantee higher levels of performance. Energy Management for Performance is the main focus of the Mentally Fit Institute training and coaching programs. Inspired by the hard science behind elite sports coaching, our coaches and trainers will constantly challenge and boost your staff to improve personal energy and team efficiency.

Over the last 20 years, the Mentally Fit’s team of coaches with Luc Van der Hofstadt has developed a unique methodology to train all types of performers from Olympic teams to high-profile CEOs and team managers, channeling their energies into winning and becoming top-class performers and high-performing teams.

The simple and pragmatic Mentally Fit methodology is changing the way companies and organizations are leading their people and doing the business, and we have worked with over thousand global clients, including major international brands.

How to learn for one-self and be able to use and transmit the Mentally Fit tools, bringing your teams towards top performance?

  • Energizing the organization: fostering winning mindsets in a Collaborative Culture
  • Energizing teams: the key ingredients of

Group Dynamics and Team Performance.

  • Energizing individuals: the interaction of  the 3 energy batteries (IQ, EQ, PhQ) to capitalize on your full potential
  • Energizing champions: Detection- Development-Retention of talent (High Potentials & High Performers)

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