Van Beirendonck received his Master in Psychology in 1984 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, his Master of Business Administration in 1992 from the University of Antwerp, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational psychology in 2010 from the Tilburg University.
Van Beirendonck started his academic career in 1990 as Executive Professor Human resource management at the Antwerp Management School, and was Executive Professor at the EHSAL Management School at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel from 1990 to Since 2000 he is also Visiting Professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Van Beirendonck has also been executive at the Catholic University of Mechlin from 2004 to 2010, and had started his own consultancy firm in 1988.
