What can our facilitators do for you?
Our facilitators are well trained professionals in applied futures. They have been facilitating sessions for years and are experienced enough to deal with complex situations in settings from boardroom to classroom. The sessions they facilitate can be hosted for a handful of participants or large groups of hundreds of people; can be in-company or public and can be facilitated anywhere in the world.
Niels Dengel
– Personal Development
Niels works as a business coach, personal coach and facilitator. He was inspired to start his own business after working for Google for six years. He believes that any change an organization has to go through is the work of people. “By focusing on the people of an organization these changes happen more effectively, more surprising and run more smoothly. Minkowski for me is the ideal approach for collaboration. A group of highly qualified people with various expertise and skills forms a customized team that is fit for the challenge of the organization that engages with us. The value added per team member is immediately clear. There are no hidden agendas just the desire to be more than just the sum of each of us individually. I believe that the impact that we generate under these circumstances is the biggest as can be”.
Margriet Larmit –
Strategy Design
Margriet is a skilled innovation and concept designer. She is driven by the idea that impact and change can be created by using design and the force of collective creativity and intelligence. Her strength is reaching innovative insights through creative thinking. Margriet is known for her enthusiasm in connecting people around specific actionable goals. She is skilled in going from idea to implementation. Together with her clients, she helps organizations sharpen their ideas and turn them into concepts that create real impact, she also supervises the implementation of these concepts to assure they are successful.
“With Minkowski, I have a valuable cooperation with likeminded and skilled people, that together can really make a difference to my clients’ needs and wishes. It’s not that hard to start the conversation on how to innovate, the trick is in connecting the dots in the organisation, so innovation takes place in several areas, with several teams steering the same boat. Facilitating that kind of innovation is something we need to co-create together.”
Jörgen
van der Sloot
– Founder
Jörgen is the founding member of Minkowski. He’s helped numerous organizations to get breakthroughs in their thinking and in their perspective on the world. He has collaborated with many internationally operating organizations in the fields of media and consumer brands, finance and investment, insurance and pensions, education and charity and has hosted sessions for groups ranging in size from 3 people to 300 people, from boardroom to classroom.
“I love designing our programs and approaches to make change last. I have a great passion for facilitating groups and coaching some facilitators and moderators as well as some innovation teams for our clients. I’ve founded Minkowski because I don’t think there is just one way to make change last. The collaboration between all the members of Minkowski and the sharing of tools and methodology as well as experience and skills creates an inspiring environment where we are all learning how best to help a particular organization. I don’t believe in old organizational structures that exploit employees. Minkowski to me is a great way of discovering how to create a sustainable collective for the future”.
Alexandre Janssen –
Co-Founder
Alexandre has over ten years of experience in applying innovation within organizations; whether is about the structure, the KPI’s, the process or the people and the cultural element. His broad experience in facilitating ideation, innovation, business model and scaling workshops for larger organization combined with his role as an advisor and investor in several startups, provides him with a broad view and expertise on the topic on innovation & intrapreneurship. He has talked at TEDx, gives guest lectures at different universities and is a frequent keynote speaker and facilitator for groups ranging from 10 to 600 people.
“Within Minkowski, I’m keen to orchestrate innovation from start to impact. In my role, I design innovation sessions together with the client and delivers the programs in such a way that innovation is not just a buzzword, but actually makes innovation happen; to make a long-lasting impact in the organization”.
Kristin Amadon
– Business Development
Kristin believes that business can be used as a force that creates a positive impact and thriving future. She is passionate about making connections between people and organizations to best navigate the many global challenges we face today. The more complex the situation, the more innovative she becomes. She is a strategic business developer, storyteller, program and event designer, and a facilitator in bringing expertise together in order to take action.
Kristin is specialized in national and international business development for both B2C and B2B relationship management. Her career has taken her to many places across the globe including, Antarctica, Arctic Circle, Asia, throughout Europe, North and South America.
Kristin is passionate about what she does and uses her skills to help organizations use their business as a force for good to create a better and thriving future.
Rolinka Kattouw
Program Management
Rolinka is a creative strategist and facilitator. She has over 20 years of experience working on wicked problems with corporates, government and non-profits. Her latest challenge evolves improving the lives of the people in Amsterdam, going the extra mile after her impressive research on the digital divide and poverty. She believes good design has an impact and all impact starts with a clear challenge. Her contribution to making an impact is in designing and facilitating a structured creative process, connecting clients to the world of their customers, employees or partners. She is an experienced design thinker, using solid methods and enabling learning by doing. Co-creative collaboration with customer teams, experts or stakeholders is central in creating value and key in my approach.
“I see Minkowski as an ecosystem of experts. We compose the team that fits best thus enabling organisations to set a direction for the future and make it happen. Working with a great mix of personalities, experience and knowledge trigger my learning and growth, both as a person and professionally. Being the senior professionals we are, we not only value quality but also fun and laughter in our work!”
Jeroen van Mastrigt –
Experience Design
Jeroen has been working on the development of innovation related vison & strategy and creating innovative services for companies in a broad range of sectors (tech, media, leisure, traveling, building & real estate, finance, energy and athe cultural & creative sectors). Jeroen challenges organizations with state of the art, cross sectoral insights from the field of applied technology, and human agency. He is able to make sense of a changing world, by not only understanding cross sectoral developments & contexts but also to creatively translate generated insights into clear and applicable strategies and concepts.
“In these past years I have learned that Minkowski’s methods and facilitation capabilities are key in starting successful innovation trajectories: defining a shared vision and position in relation to an organization’s future in the light of technological change, fuelled methods that facilitate bottom up co-creation.”
Herman Weeda
– Visual Facilitation
As a strategic designer and visual storyteller, Herman combines his design thinking expertise and strong visualisation skills with his experience of facilitating numerous co-creation workshops, projects and processes. “Within Minkowski I apply my skills to break down complex problems into clear visuals, which we then use to build new (visual) concepts, stories and strategies together with our clients and partners. Being part of Minkowski offers me the change to work with a team of enthusiastic, highly skilled people on grand challenges with clients that can make an impact. For me, bringing in the visual dimension is important, because I believe that creating a better world starts with imagining it”.
Feikje Dunnewijk
– Leadership Development
Feikje is a facilitator and executive coach with 20 years of experience in developing people, teams and organizations to be ready for tomorrow. Besides her experience as a global HR director role in the fashion industry, in the MRO business, she has over 10 years of experience in financial services in various senior leadership roles in HR. Throughout the years she specialized in leadership and transformation and coached senior executives, teams and organizations in their business challenges. Her practical business experience and knowledge of leadership and transformation are blended with her coaching skills.
“At Minkowski we bring different ways of thinking together. An effecting way of approaching change and use the wisdom in the room. I believe in order to change you need to look at yourself from the outside instead of look at the world from the inside. I love provoking leaders, team and organizations in times of change to challenge their belief system and allow new thinking.
I’m passioned to make change and transformation easier for companies and leaders in order to be ready for the future.”
Bart Jan van ‘t Hoff –
Leadership / Coaching
As an executive coach and facilitator Bart Jan supports leaders and executive teams in sustainable and impactful transformation through system change, team dialogue, nature trails and executive coaching. Bart Jan combines his background in executive search and leadership development with an entrepreneurial mindset; driven to find the hidden potential in humans and organisations.
Enabling growth through raising consciousness on what is holding people and organisations back from the future potential gives me energy. I see Minkowski as a community of people that is always looking for that future potential, by bringing different ideas together and acting upon does ideas.
Nadine Swinkels
– Project Management
In business and in her personal life Nadine likes getting things done. She has extensive experience as an event and marketing manager. As an entrepreneur, she currently works on a variety of projects, both nationally as internationally, that are all linked to innovation and our ever-changing future.
For every project Nadine endeavours to be involved from start to finish. She needs to understand what the goal of the project is to design a fitting concept and an entire program that contains the right ingredients to achieve that goal together. Nadine makes the entire project an experience and she strives for an impact that will last.
“There are so many talented people working together at Minkowski. It’s really inspiring to be a part of that! We all bring different expertise and experience to the table, but together we are more than just the sum of all that knowledge together. We share a vision, a passion and a drive that makes us build amazing programs together and make the change last. While along the way, we keep learning and developing ourselves as individuals as well. What more could you professionally possibly wish for?”
Hajo van Beijma
– Business Development
Hajo is the COO of SingularityU Benelux. He is an entrepreneur by heart and experience. “We have a strong bond with Minkowski as they are our partner to help our clients and participants in programs translate the insights from an exponentially changing world to their own lives. As a representative of SingularityU Benelux, I am often part of the team that is specifically designed around the challenges our clients face. My goal with Minkowksi is to impact the lives of a billion people worldwide and to make the impact that we have last”.
Coalition for transformation
We have strong partnerships with a handful of organizations. We work together for clients to accelerate transformation and be as flexible as possible in our services.
