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BIOGRAPHY
H.A. ERIC TEUNISSEN, CM
Founder and Chief Executive, Division Group
Eric Teunissen is an interim Chief Operating Officer and the founder of Division Group, a strategic partner to organizations undergoing complex change. He works alongside executive teams to lead, structure, and deliver transformation programs with a focus on achieving measurable business results.
Since 1997, Eric has supported organizations in aligning operations with strategy—especially during moments of transition such as post-merger integration, industrial relocation, and large-scale organizational redesign. His work combines deep operational insight with an ability to mobilize teams, structure execution, and guide change efforts with discipline and purpose.
In 2006, Eric developed a new management heuristic to address long-standing gaps in the professional organization of industrial relocation projects. This innovation laid the foundation for Division Group, a firm built to deliver advanced solutions in program management and change execution. Under his leadership, Division Group has received multiple international awards, including the Benelux and European Enterprise Awards (2020) and the Worldwide Finance Award (2023), recognizing its innovation in the development of services that enable effective M&A program delivery. Extending this work, Eric has developed a holistic and integrated vision for effective, human-centered organizational change.
Eric holds the Certified Manager (CM) designation (#8811) from the Institute of Certified Professional Managers and was the first Dutch member of the National Management Association, founded in 1925. His professional education spans Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School, with studies in business, engineering, leadership, and the humanities.
Clients value Eric’s ability to quickly establish trust, bring clarity to complex challenges, and deliver lasting impact. His leadership approach is pragmatic, people-focused, and outcomes-driven—always tailored to the organization’s strategic context.
Social Impact and Global Perspective
In addition to his executive work, Eric co-founded a community-based English language school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he currently lives with his wife and two children. This initiative reflects his broader commitment to social impact and to helping others develop and succeed—values that also shape his professional engagements.
About the Founder: Leadership as Humanist Design
These same values are embedded in Eric’s leadership philosophy and in the founding vision of Division Group.
Eric Teunissen, CM, is the founder of Division Group and the author of its guiding vision. His leadership philosophy is grounded in the belief that transformation must align strategy with human aspiration—and that leadership, at its best, is both imaginative and ethically engaged. Drawing on Abraham Zaleznik’s insight that “a leader thinks like a humanist in creating and enacting narratives that embody a vision to which other people may subscribe and which they may help achieve,” Eric has shaped a practice that mobilizes trust, activates potential, and delivers purposeful change. For him, leadership is not simply functional—it is human-centered, emotionally resonant, and transformative.
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