Michel de Kemmeter

Michel de Kemmeter
Born	29 September 1964 (1964-09-29) (age 47) Ghent, Belgium
Occupation	CEO, author

Michel de Kemmeter (born 29 September 1964(1964-09-29)) is a Belgian entrepreneur from Ghent and author of books. He started in the field of construction material and since 2005 write about Personal Development, Intangible Assets and Human Sustainable Development.

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Early life and career

Michel de Kemmeter attended the Rijksuniversiteit Gent University in Belgium, graduating in Civil Engineering. Later on, he attended the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for the degree in Sales Engineer. His works were published in French language English and German English and German.

His first published books were reference books on construction materials, such as natural stone, blue stone and wood. In this field of work, he has started a business specialized on treatment after laying, solutions to the pathology of natural stone and chemistry/physics of the stone after installation.

In 1996 he has started to invest on Real Estate in Belgium and since then has been sharing experiences as investor in private housing with Fortune de Briques at Éditions Racine.

Human development work

In 2001 he worked on the "Motivation Wheel", a psychological tool for a circular analysis of human characteristics, such as behavior, values, concerns, needs and desires for inner fulfillment. This work explained about an interpretative framework for connecting "doing" and "being" through aspirations, fears and internal strengths. The model was designed to be used for corporate aspects, such as corporate culture development, time management and values, evaluation of intangible assets, coaching and individual's mentoring.

Later, in 2005, he published the book "The Value of Time" and the "Die Werte der Zeit" edition by the publisher Swinti Verlag GmbH, and "La Valeur du Temps" in 2006 by Éditions Racine. The book was a work of philosophy and psychology applied to management and life. It gave a different perspective to the Greek nations of chronos, kairos and aion in a way to find openness of self to life. Today, he is a trainer of this subject at the Free University of Brussels and at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Louvain School of Management).

Present

De Kemmeter has started in 2006 a network of reflection and innovation on human development and societal development, named UHDR (Universal Human Development and Research). This network of collaborators has been creating tools for development of human potential, self-connection and experiential conscious mentoring, in collaboration with medics, sportsmen, companies, universities, philosophers and therapists.

Some works of the network were "Triple Accounting" (for knowledge and emotional balance in companies), "CoherenceXplorer" (a tool to transform human apprehensions into human development potential) and "Culture Coherence" (approaching circles of coherence in organizations). These tools aim to give assessments of perceived corporate identity, positioning relative to competitors, values, strengths and development areas, assessment and quantification of intangible assets, customers satisfaction, and a consistency's degree of the company.

In 2008, he has founded UniverseCité UHDR (UHDR UniverseCity) of Sustainable Human Development, which has the objective of bringing "soft skills development" based on concepts of collective intelligence and experimental learning.

He organized the "1€ Wake Up Plan - Emergence Forums" about twenty business and social issues, research that has been done together with organizations, schools and corporate partners and published in form of articles, books, conferences and WebTV.

Awarded with "La Minute de Pie" in the "Festival du Programme Court" in Paris, Public's Choice and 3rd Prize in Diversity's category.^[1]

See also

• Social sustainability
• Intangible assets
• Accounting

References

1. ^ "1ère édition du Festival du programme court". Festival du Programme Court. 2009. http://www.festivalduprogrammecourt.fr/contenu/PALMARES.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-10. 

This article incorporates information from this version of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

External links

• Official Website UHDR UniverseCity
• Official Blog UHDR UniverseCity
• Triple Accounting

Publishers:

• http://www.betaplus.com/
• http://www.racine.be/
• http://avantpropos.eu/

Bibliography

• Construire avec la Pierre Naturelle – Bouwen met Natuursteen, Beta Plus nv, février 1998. 288 p.
• La Pierre Bleue du Hainaut - De Blauwe Steen van Henegouwen, Beta Plus nv, novembre 1998, 288 pp.
• Construire avec le Bois - Bouwen met Hout, Beta Plus sa, septembre 1998, 288 pp.
• Pierre Naturelle & Habitat, 101 questions sur la pierre naturelle, Wonen met Natuursteen, 101 vragen over natuursteen, édition 2000 augmentée, Beta Plus janvier 2000.
• Fortune de Briques, Ed Racine en février 2005. 144 p. (ISBN 2-87386-396-X)
• The Value of Time et le Chronos-Kairos agenda mai 2005 (Swinti Verlag Gmbh) (ISBN 2-8399-0063-7)
• Die Werte der Zeit, mit Chronos-Kairos agenda mai 2005 (Swinti Verlag Gmbh)
• La Valeur du Temps Ed Racine 2006, 152 p. (ISBN 2-87386-451-6)
• La Planète Intérieure Vue du Ciel , Ed Racine, à paraître en septembre 2009 (ISBN 2-87386-556-6)
• Les Valeurs de l'Argent – Réussir avec ou sans, Ed Avant Propos, juin 2011

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Name	De Kemmeter, Michel
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Date of birth	29 September 1964
Place of birth	Ghent, Belgium
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