The stage has felt like a natural place for me since I was young. What I bring to it now was earned elsewhere: in publishing, entrepreneurship, marketing, management and associations — developing ideas, testing them, making them work, and learning from the ones that didn’t.
Today, speaking, moderating and independent perspectives are where those worlds come together.
Moving between those worlds taught me not to assume that the obvious answer in one context will make sense in another.
Much of my career involved building, selling, publishing, managing and carrying responsibility for the result.
That changes how you look at an idea. It eventually has to survive contact with customers, colleagues, budgets and reality.
I have worked across disciplines, companies, associations, countries and cultures.
Moving between those worlds taught me not to assume that the obvious answer in one room will make sense in another.
I am usually more interested in finding the useful question than in arriving quickly at the right answer.
A different perspective can often unlock more than another layer of expertise.
Independent Perspectives is how I bring those threads together.
My work has taken me through entrepreneurship, publishing, advising, management, speaking and moderating. Different roles, but often the same underlying task: understand what is really going on, look at it from more than one angle, and find a way forward that people can actually use.
I am not especially interested in pretending there is one correct answer when there usually isn’t. I would rather ask a better question, challenge an assumption or offer a perspective that helps someone see the situation differently.
That is what connects the Perspectives I write, the talks I give, the conversations I moderate and the work I do with people and organisations.
Based in Burgundy, France. Working internationally. Comfortable in English, Dutch and French.
Curious by nature, independent by inclination, and usually more interested in the question behind the brief than the brief itself.
Let’s Talk. You can find an available time in my calendar that suits you.