I help founders, leadership and teams turn strategy into calm, working execution, and I always aim to leave a place better than I found it.
Where I've worked
My work goes by many names. It usually comes down to walking into varying degrees of chaos or complexity and leaving behind a team that can run itself.
I'm hired to make something better, not just to keep the trains running. A driver of change and an enabler of others: I improve what's not working, build what's missing, and give teams what they need to run it themselves.
Open to interim, fractional and consulting work, and interim leadership. The titles that fit best:
Fractional COO · Head of Operations · Chief of Staff · Interim Team Lead
Strategic Operations Manager · Transformation Lead · Strategic Program Manager · Operational Excellence
Organizational Effectiveness Lead · Organizational Development Manager · Change & Transformation Manager · Ways of Working / Future of Work Consultant
Collaboration Consultant · Modern Workplace Consultant · Asana Implementation Lead
Not sure which box you'd put me in? That's usually the point, let's talk about what you need.
A few of the places I've brought structure, clarity and alignment.
Moved one of the Netherlands' largest retailers from yearly OGSM plans to a living OKR cycle across ~2,000 people. Five years on, Bol still runs on OKRs. I also redesigned onboarding for the 40 to 60 people they hired every month.
A ten-month programme helping globally distributed teams work asynchronously across continents and time zones. Built a repeatable way of working, rolled out OKRs in the tech department, and handed it to an internal team.
Guided 45 mental-healthcare teams into a self-organising way of working after acquisition, each with clear roles, a tactical meeting rhythm and open governance, so every team could run itself.
Built Springest's B2C branch from scratch: proved a new consumer market could be profitable and grew it into a team of 12. I set up the hiring, onboarding and ways of working that let it scale, and much of the company's frontline came through it.
Trained every manager and team lead to run OKRs with their own people, turning busy task lists into measurable outcomes, and turning even the early sceptics into fans.
Turned complex international tenders, run on Excel and email where ownership got lost, into one standard, repeatable Asana workflow, with OKRs tracked in Asana Goals alongside the work.
Applying the OKR method turned out to be incredibly useful. It helped us turn activity into measurable outcomes and brought much more transparency to our work. The payoff in transparency and accountability has been more than worth it.
The OKR training really supported us to identify a common destination we want to go to together as a team.
10/10 would recommend. Anne Nynke is a great presenter, and what I valued most was seeing how she applies GTD in her own life.
The training helped me get better structure into my day-to-day work, and the 1:1s took the stress out of getting everything perfect on day one.
I love getting on stage to talk about the future of work, self-organisation and strategy, and to make ways of working feel a lot less overwhelming, and a lot lighter and more fun.
I've spent 11+ years helping startups, scale-ups and global organisations work smarter, from Springest and Bol.com to Greenpeace and Just Eat Takeaway. What I do has a lot of names, but it comes down to one thing: I walk into complexity (and sometimes chaos) and leave behind structure, clarity, and a team that can keep running without me.
I'm a path maker. I like the messy beginning, the blank canvas, the tangle nobody has untangled yet. I love helping people bring order to their chaos: untangling and freeing what's stuck and blocked, cutting the noise, simplifying the complex, and finding a way forward. Then I hand it over, so it keeps working after I've gone.
Outside work you'll find me hiking, at a music festival, on a horse, or hosting a long dinner for friends. Same instinct, different setting: bring people together and make it good.
I also run Triple Nine, my consultancy helping organisations build the structure they need to grow.
If you're a founder or leader who needs a steady pair of hands to bring order and momentum, interim, fractional or as a consultant, I'd love to hear what you're working on.
Interested in exploring how we could work together?