Chances are you or your team have attended Innovation, Agility, or Design Thinking trainings before. While inspiring, did they truly spark the changes you wanted in your daily work or in the solutions you create?

Think of it like learning to play the piano in three days with 20 other people. You might understand the basics and even play a song or two, but that doesn't make you a pianist. Even after months of practice, mastering techniques, and reading sheet music, it takes years of coaching, feedback, and dedication to truly move listeners.

Becoming an innovator is no different - it requires sustained effort, guidance, and reinforcement.

My work in organisations and with teams is deeply personal and deeply systemic at the same time. My job as Innovation Facilitator and Coach is to confront limiting patterns and bring out creativity, courage and resilience in people. Each individual, each team, each organisation has its own typical way of working. As a facilitator I enter their habits temporarily and use all my experience and magic to help unblock and empower. 

I didn’t set out to become an Innovation Facilitator - it evolved naturally. While working in marketing and innovation at Philips in Singapore, I noticed a gap between what designers, engineers, and technical marketers were doing and what I had learned during my Industrial Design Engineering education and from my experience working for corporates in the Netherlands.

To bridge that gap, I began running internal workshops, encouraging a more human-centred innovation mindset. By the time I left Philips, several organizations approached me to do the same for them. That’s when the journey began. I upskilled in facilitation, founded my company and became Managing Director at The Creative Experience, before joining Hyper Island, a business school and consultant focused on Digital Transformation.

What started as a focus on Human-Centred Innovation and Design Thinking has since expanded to include the behavioural aspects, communication, and energy dynamics that shape innovation cultures.

While I can’t be entirely certain why people choose to hire me as an Innovation Facilitator, based on feedback and reflections, here’s what I’ve heard:

• They’ve tried traditional training programmes with little to no lasting change.

• They don’t believe in quick fixes and want deeper, sustainable results.

• They see my passion for helping every individual thrive, regardless of their starting point.

• They’ve heard about the tangible impact my approach has had in other organizations.

What I offer depends on what you need. Let's start there.

Here is a list of services that have been most impactful in the past, with other clients:

• Innovation training + coaching on the project (virtual and/or F2F)

• Interim Innovation Facilitator on the Project

• Customer Experience Standards Project Lead

• Design Thinking / Human Centered Design Training

• Innovation Consultant

• Innovation Coaching

• Agility Coaching