“I inspire professionals to set innovation goals beyond their imagination and guide them on the path towards these.”
Every day I walk my dog. Doing so, my imagination runs away with me. And every time I love it!
I am a so-called late entrant to the field of agriculture. The big advantage of such a position is that you don't have to know it all - at least for a while - and that you can even be wrong now and then. The question, of course, is what are you doing to get rid of it? Being an intern is a good start...
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After a life-changing off-road motorbike trip through beautiful Uganda, I fell in love with the ‘Pearl of Africa’. Not only with its nature, but also with its people. And with Toto Africa, an Ugandese NGO that supports women.
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After recently diving head-first into agricultural innovation, I now have been invited to lead an awesome team of groundbreaking innovators in the area of agriculture on peat. Called VIC...
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Following my manifesto where I expressed my intention to do something of inspiration in the field of climate change, I have started my journey. Building an innovation lab to demonstrate what is truly needed to grow on our lands...
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I passed the age of 50. So, I wrote a manifesto ;-).
A manifesto about the future of my professional life. A life that will be focusing more on the mix of 'doing', inspiration and climate change.
May it inspire you...
I love and loved working with the innovation pro's at these companies...
She was a mess when I first met her. We spent years talking about how she could get it together again. She did! She stole millions of hearts, including mine. I wouldn’t be who I am if it wasn’t for her. A love letter to my awesome, world-famous ex. Her name is LEGO.
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Who am I to predict our future? A future that is capricious as never before… Still, I’d like to think that some skills are good to have in order to deal with this future. These skills form the basis for my lecture as ‘futurist’, with the concept of anti-fragility as the red thread. You want to know about these skills?
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Have you noticed at LinkedIn? All those professionals that call themselves 'Ex-LEGO' in their description. It seems they are very proud that former position. Now, there is a community for those-that-have-worked-at-LEGO. I am part of that community. And I am proud as well...
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> You are saving the rainforest, I see.
- Well, I joined an NGO to organise their innovation. I think it will help, yes!
> I want something like that.
- To fix big problems? Let me tell you what I’ve learned…
For a brief period I’ve called myself Founder of Designladder. An app that would change creative careers. It was absolutely doing that, until we closed shop.
That makes me a failed startup founder. How to continue my life? For this session I invited my co-founder and you: my lovely reader. This is a safe space, so let’s all be honest and frank. How did this happen? How do we live on?
‘Somewhere on the crossroads of business, innovation, design and the future’ is the place where I work. But where do crossroads start and end? A philosopher might know the answer. So do my past and present clients…
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Sometimes you spot something important that you can do. A way to change something in the world. You might start a company for it. And you might get very good at it. You can get paid very well. Your life becomes comfortable, and God forbid you succeed in changing that thing. Because if you succeed, what is left for you? What is left of you?
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Coaching. You know, the thing when you get paid to help others say and do the things they’ve been wanting to say and do. I’m a coach. And I like getting better at what I do. The web is full of articles on how to coach professionals. Coach the coaches, as it were. With a healthy dose of reluctance, let’s see if I hold up against the commandments of coaching…
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Here's John, thinking out loud: "This business transformation is giving me a headache. A friend of a friend says he knows a guy who can help. He gave a pretty vague description of the help provided, and said that I would find out when I call him. Well. Let's give it a try..."
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