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Nicolaas Smit serves as a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management, with additional visiting faculty appointments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and St Gallen University's Center for Global Account Management (CGAM). He brings extensive industry experience from his 18-year career at Cisco Systems where he held leadership positions until 2017.
His academic background includes a Master's Degree in Dutch Notary Law from the Free University of Amsterdam, complemented by professional education from Stanford/Harvard programs on organizational change and Wagner Group's governance training. He is fluent in Dutch, German, and English.
Smit specializes in organizational transformation with research interests spanning organizational psychology, business development, and workplace safety dynamics. His work examines how work stressors, job insecurity, and union support influence job satisfaction and safety outcomes, particularly in high-risk industries like mining.
His notable 2016 publication demonstrates how organizations can improve safety motivation through strategic interventions addressing job satisfaction. The research revealed that work stressors and job insecurity negatively affect job satisfaction, while union support positively influences both job satisfaction and safety behavior.
- Member of Supervisory Committee at Water Company of Groningen Province
- Founder of Rebellution consultancy based in Netherlands
- Senior consultant at Value Creator Account Management Center
- Master-level certified in Triple Fit account planning methodology
