Transformation leadership, coaching and facilitation.
Most organisations invest in transformation and in leadership, and still find that the human system does not shift.
I work at the point where strategy becomes real: helping it emerge with the people who will have to carry it, turning it into structure and governance, and leading the delivery. I stay in the work rather than handing over a plan.
The way an organisation is designed and the human system that has to make it work are one problem, and I take them on as one piece of work. Twenty-five years leading complex programmes, operating models and line organisations, combined with certified systemic coaching, facilitation and learning design. That combination is what makes change last after the mandate ends.
I work with large regulated groups, mid-sized companies, cooperatives and not-for-profits, on anything from a 2,500-person transformation to an eight-person leadership team.
Three ways I help organisations move forward
I. Stabilise and deliver
A critical programme drifting, fragmented governance, unclear accountability, or delivery that has lost momentum.
- Programme recovery and delivery leadership
- Portfolio governance and PMO setup
- Interim delivery or department leadership
- Stakeholder re-engagement and executive steering
What changes. Clearer ownership, risks visible early rather than at crisis point, renewed steering from the executive team, and delivery back on a credible track.
II. Design and run the operating model
Leadership teams that need to turn strategy and priorities into an operating rhythm people actually use, and to keep that rhythm running once it is in place.
- Target operating model design
- Agile at scale: OKR, Obeya, quarterly business review and planning
- Change adoption, learning journeys and capability building
- Interim leadership through the transition
What changes. Decisions taken at the right cadence, a clear line from strategy to execution, and sustained leadership through the transition rather than a design handed over at the door.
III. Leadership and organisational alignment for action
Leadership teams, departments or newly formed teams where unresolved tension, fragmentation or unclear direction is slowing everything down.
- Team coaching, cohesion and performance
- Large-group facilitation and collective intelligence, from 8 to 400 people and beyond
- Leadership development and learning design
- Individual coaching for leaders, managers and senior professionals
What changes. Greater collective clarity, disagreement that becomes productive instead of stuck, stronger ownership, and the capability to move forward together.
The third offering is also how the first two get delivered. An operating model that nobody has agreed to belong to does not survive contact with the organisation, so alignment, facilitation and coaching run inside the delivery work rather than after it.
A single alignment day is often where the action starts.
Proof, in numbers
2500
people. A scaled Agile operating model designed, adopted, and still running after the mandate ended.
500+
leaders and professionals developed through coaching, team coaching, leadership programmes and maturity assessment.
30%
of company revenue protected through a critical restructuring, while directly leading a 20-plus person organisation across three continents.
400
people moved from fragmented views to prioritised commitments in a two-day offsite.
70%
backlog reduction with client satisfaction restored, through structural redesign rather than headcount.
Who I am
Nine years at Accenture on large business and IT programmes across the Benelux, ending on a cross-border securities consolidation programme of over 75,000 man-days. Three years in Switzerland running a global client servicing organisation across Europe, Asia and the Americas, with direct line and budget responsibility. Sixteen years since as an embedded transformation lead with a European consultancy, inside banks, insurers and market infrastructures, and increasingly on the coaching, facilitation and leadership side of the same mandates.
For larger or multi-disciplinary engagements, I bring in a flexible network of associates built over the years, coaches, facilitators and delivery specialists, whose expertise complements mine, adapted to what each engagement needs. I lead and remain accountable for the engagement throughout. The network extends what a single practitioner can cover; it does not change who answers for the outcome.
On Spaceship Earth is my own practice, established in 2019. It is how I take on this work independently, across the full range above.
Two master’s degrees, in Economics and in Sociology, are behind how I read organisations: as economic systems and human systems at the same time.
Certified coach: ICF ACC, ORSC, Leadership Circle Profile, TeamDynamics, Indice de Cohésion d’Equipe. Certified in delivery and change: Managing Sucessful Programs (MSP), Change Management & Business Adoption: Prosci ADKAR, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Agile at Scale: SAFe & Scrum@Scale. French, Dutch and English. Based in Brussels, working across Belgium and Europe.