About us

Sandra Schruijer is the Director of Professional Development International BV (ProDevInt). She founded the organisation in 2002 and is also the programme director and a staff  member of IPDP (International Professional Development Programme). Sandra consults organisations and managers in the domains of developing interorganisational collaboration, realising large-scale change, leadership development and organisation development. In recent years she worked predominantly in health care, the building sector, infrastructure and the justice domain. She has carried out assignments in Europe and beyond.

Sandra is also a Professor of Organisation Science at the Utrecht School of Governance,  University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Sandra’s research involves the psychological  dynamics of conflict and collaboration between groups and between organisations. She teaches in the domain of organisational change, leadership, conflict and collaboration and  organisational psychology in general. Sandra is former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of  Community and Applied Social Psychology.

Sandra holds a Master degree in Organisational Psychology (Tilburg University, 1983), and in History (Utrecht University, 2007). She gained her PhD in the Social Sciences in 1990 (Tilburg University). She also received training in systems-psychodynamics, group  dynamics and psychoanalysis.

Recent publications include:

  • Schruijer, S. (2021). The group dynamics of interorganizational relationships. Oxford  Research Encyclopedia of Psychology  https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.512;
  • Schruijer, S. (2021). Whatever happened to group dynamics in the scientific study of  groups? Team Performance Management, No. ahead-of print. https://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-10-2020-0091;
  • Schruijer, S. (2020). Developing collaborative interorganizational relationships: An  action research approach. Team Performance Management Vol. 26 No. 1/2, 2020 pp.  17-28;
  • Curşeu, P., & Schruijer, S. (2020). Participation and goal achievement of multiparty  collaborative systems dealing with complex problems: A natural experiment.  Sustainability, 12, 987; doi:10.3390/su12030987.

Sandra collaborates with colleagues belonging to, and associated with her (inter)national  network.

ProDevInt is located in Utrecht, The Netherlands.