I have spent nearly thirty years at the intersection of human potential and organisational change.

Experience

Before becoming a coach and facilitator, I spent my career in the rooms where the most consequential decisions get made. As Global Director of Digital Transformation at Arcadis, I designed and delivered the Expedition DNA programme. It engaged 27,000 employees across the world and built the culture and capability that let Arcadis grow its innovation and digital business lines. It was named Best Digital Transformation Programme by the Environmental Business Journal in 2020, and remains one of the largest and most awarded human-centred transformation programmes in engineering and consulting.

Before that, I led digital and IT transformation globally for WPP, the UK-listed communications and advertising group, in partnership with IBM.

Over those thirty years I have built a deep understanding of human behaviour, and of what it takes to move a single leader through the change that makes everything else possible.

Mission work

I bring lived experience of working across cultures inside multinational companies to every coaching engagement. Not theory borrowed from a textbook. I also bring a personal commitment to coaching in organisations with a social mission. I have worked with senior leaders in development banking, and I facilitate a Women in Leadership Network in the Netherlands for international women leaders. I have also worked with business leaders exploring how to build a business for good.

Approach

My coaching and facilitation draw on human-centred design thinking, Theory U and systemic team coaching. I am an accredited executive coach with nearly three decades of practice.

I am also an accredited assessor and coach with two of the most rigorous leadership assessment tools available: the Leadership Circle 360-degree Assessment and Hogan's Leadership Forecast Series, including the Personality Inventory and Development Survey.

Credentials

  • Practice Diploma, Executive Coaching
  • Time to Think Foundation
  • Leadership Circle Certified
  • Hogan Leadership Forecast Series Certified
  • Theory U and Systems Coaching
  • Member of the International Coaching Federation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and the Association for Coaching (UK)

Education

  • Bachelor of EconomicsUniversity of Sydney
  • Masters of Industrial RelationsUniversity of Sydney
  • Executive education in Design ThinkingMIT
  • Executive education in Digital LeadershipVlerick Business School, Belgium. I have also worked with leading academics there on research into digital transformation and organisational change.

Published works

  • “Cultivating Digital Transformation at Arcadis”With Prof. Lieselot Danneels (University of Ghent), Prof. Stijn Viaene (Vlerick Business School) and Joachim van den Bergh. Published in Digitalization Cases Vol. 2.
  • “Some Changes are Invisible to the Eyes: Transformation of Business Models, Organisations, and Cultures”With Olivier Lepinoy and Giso van der Heide. Published in Innovation in Construction: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Construction Industry.