Tom J.M. Mom is a professor of Strategic Growth and Implementation at the department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship of RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship and used to be the academic director of RSM's Executive-MBA.

His expertise includes new business development & growth, scaling-up, ambidexterity, leadership development, and strategy execution. His research appeared in journals like the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Human Resource Management, and Long Range Planning. He co-authored the 2021 bestseller management book ‘Naar een gezond groeibedrijf in vijf stappen’.  

Tom teaches Strategy Renewal, Strategy Implementation, New Venture Growth & Scaling, and Strategic Entrepreneurship to executives and entrepreneurs, and to PhD and master students.

He advises and trains leadership teams and entrepreneurs of private and public firms in areas like increasing profitable growth, leadership development, strategic renewal, scaling-up, innovation, and strategy execution.

Tom obtained a PhD in Strategic Management and a Master’s degree in Strategic Management (Cum Laude) from Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), and a Master’s Degree in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) preceded by an exchange to the Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland. He used to be a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva at the chair for Strategic Management.