Prof. dr. Jol Stoffers (1969), is professor and head of the Research Centre for Employability (Human Capital, HRM, Labor Market) at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (School of Business Studies) in the Netherlands. Next to that, he is full professor by special appointment in Employability at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands. His research focuses on Employability and Innovative Work Behavior (research overview). Research results have been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including ‘Sustainability’ and ‘The International Journal of Human Resource Management’; and have been presented at scientific conferences, including the ‘Academy of Management’ (USA).

Jol Stoffers is the academic manager of the Zuyd master’s degree program Personal Leadership in Innovation and Change. Next to that he is research fellow at the Research Centre for Education and Labour Market (ROA) of Maastricht University.

Jol Stoffers holds a PhD in Management Science from the Radboud University (Institute for Management Research). His educational background is an MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology, with a specialization in the field of HRM, an executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) and an Academic Research Master (MPhil) with distinction.

More than fifteen years he worked as a manager and senior HRM consultant in the insurance (Loyalis) and recruiting industry (Polec Consultancy).

He is a (co-)supervisor of PhD and doctoral candidates from the Open University of the Netherlands, Radboud University, Maastricht University and the Maastricht School of Management. 

Jol Stoffers is visiting professor at the Parahyangan Catholic University (UNPAR) in Indonesia and the Ho Technical University in Ghana. He is also the principal lecturer of the international program (New York, USA) of the master degree Personal Leadership in Innovation and Change in association with the Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus, NYC). 

Next to that, he is Scientific Director of NEIMED, a Dutch Socio-Economic Knowledge Institute and EAMI, the European-Asian Management Institute.
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