Simplify to Accelerate

Strategy, Execution, and Growth

 

Lead with clarity. Deliver with confidence. Grow with purpose.

Ebullient Business Design is a strategy and transformation studio led by Chris Parker and supported by a curated network of expert partners. We work with senior leaders at critical moments of scale, reinvention, or AI-enabled change to cut through complexity and create momentum.

Our approach brings clarity to ambition, structure to execution, and confidence to decision-making. Whether you’re aligning your leadership team, stabilizing delivery, or exploring how AI fits your future, we help you move forward with intention and integrity.

You won’t find jargon or inflated roadmaps here. Just the right balance of space, challenge, and support to help you and your organization focus on what matters most.

Lead the Shift to Intelligent Simplicity

Cut through complexity. Align your team. Adopt AI with purpose.

AI is reshaping how organizations think and operate, but real transformation begins with human clarity. We help you simplify what matters, align your leadership, and apply intelligent tools with purpose, structure, and trust.

AI Acceleration: Strategic, structured, and human by design

AI Acceleration helps you bridge the gap between technological capability and human wisdom. We bring together strategy, execution, and leadership development to ensure AI enhances rather than replaces human judgment and connection.

This human-led, AI-aware approach makes technology adoption a force for good in your organization.

Transformation is not about more effort. It’s about better alignment. Whether you’re launching a new strategy, integrating AI, or reshaping how your leadership team works together, we help you simplify to accelerate.

Strategy Acceleration

When direction feels unclear, we guide your leadership team through a focused sprint to align around a compelling narrative, shared priorities, and a roadmap that drives action. Fast, co-creative, and energizing.

Execution Acceleration

Making strategy operational through multi-phase partnerships that embed change into your operating model. We create structure, simplicity, and soul in your transformation over 3-6 months.

Growth Acceleration

When the next chapter calls for more presence, trust, or renewal, we create space for real leadership growth. Through our Lead from Love methodology, we help you lead with clarity, calm, and deeper impact.

From Swirl to Momentum.

From Pressure to Presence.

If you’re holding the weight of what’s next, we’re here.

You’re the one people look to for clarity. The one expected to chart the course, steady the team, and make it work. But even the most capable leaders need space, structure, and support, especially when the path ahead feels messy, fast, or high-stakes.

We work with experienced leaders navigating moments where direction is uncertain, teams are stretched, or decisions carry more weight than usual. You don’t need theory. You need real traction.

We typically support:

Founders and CxOs in high-growth environments

You need clarity and cohesion fast without losing momentum. You’re seeking speed-to-alignment with implementation safety and practical momentum tools that work in your reality.

Enterprise leaders driving major transformation

You carry change but need help making it real. You require influence without authority tools and structured support to create lasting transformation without burning out.

Executives in transition or reinvention

You’re shifting your identity and leadership approach. You seek authentic evolution support and emotional leadership development as you navigate your next chapter.

If this sounds like you, we should talk.

We help you turn strategic swirl into clear direction, stress into confident presence, and complexity into sustainable momentum.

ooms

I can highly recommend trying out the simple business canvas. Not only does it help you as an entrepreneur to ask yourself the right questions on what you’d like to achieve, but also it facilitates you to make the connection to how and with whom you’d like to achieve this for your business. I does it with utmost simplicity and it does not take a lot of your time.   It does focuses on the key topics you always need to take into account and balance when starting, growing or improving your organisation (big and small). In this way it will support and accelerate your own thought and decision making process.

Michiel Ooms
CPO
van beek

These are confusing times. If you want to get rid of the clutter and focus on what will really help you to accelerate your business have a look at the ebullient canvas as we did for two businesses. Chris, with whom we have worked before, has guided us through the process and helped us to focus on what will really push us forward. The outcome: simplicity of strategy and clarity of execution. If you want a few days of fun and innovation, Chris is your guy!

Jessica van Beek
Director
micheli

I have the privilege of working with Chris Parker as my leadership coach since becoming IT Director, and his impact on my professional growth has been remarkable. Chris’ vision, experience, and knowledge are invaluable assets that you can rely on.  He has an exceptional ability to simplify complex situations, helping me navigate the intricacies of our ever-evolving Business Technology landscape. Chris is not just a coach but an efficient sparring partner, always challenging me to think critically and strategically.  His unwavering commitment to placing people at the core of every initiative ensures that our solutions are not only efficient but also genuinely human-centered and user-centric.

Vincent Micheli
IT Director
tag

What stands out about Chris is his deeply human approach to leadership. He has this innate ability to engage with people in a way that allows their passion and professionalism to truly shine. Chris’s ability to seamlessly align all teams with business goals ensures that our organization continues to innovate and create value.  But Chris doesn’t just stop at being an exceptional leader and executive. His role as a business design coach and consultant is where his human-centric approach flourishes. Witnessing how he supports and guides leaders through personal coaching and team alignment, especially during times of change, is deeply inspiring. It’s clear that his involvement leads to more coherent and empowered leadership within the company.

Ihab Tag
Product Manager
lapre

Working with Ebullient is exactly what I needed to grow my business. I was confused with the direction to take my work, and this drained my mental and physical energy. This programme has cleared my thinking and revitalised my energy to give my business the boost it needs. This is definitely a programme that will continue to allow my business to grow whilst being aligned with my vision.

Ljuba Lapre
Owner
mader

Ebullient brings a rare blend of generosity, clarity, and practical coaching. Their Simple Business Design helped me gain confidence and focus in my strategy as an entrepreneur. The process combines thoughtful coaching with grounded business advice. If you’re feeling stuck in complexity, this is a powerful way to reset. Their pursuit of simplicity is clear throughout, with precise questions, clear observations, and practical steps. It made the whole journey feel lighter and more focused.

Charlotte Mader
Coach
brod

Using the simple business canvas with Ebullient was quick, effective, and insightful. They guided us step by step, encouraging iteration until we had a clear, robust version. It resulted in a coherent, focused plan to drive strategic goals faster while staying grounded in reality. Ebullient fosters collaboration, surfaces pain points with clarity, and creates an engaging atmosphere to get meaningful work done.

Simon Brod
Director Innovation and Development
falch

Frequently reflecting on your company is essential for any entrepreneur, yet it often gets lost in daily demands. Working with Ebullient’s simple business approach helped me clarify and refocus my thinking in a shifting business environment. The process is both straightforward and confronting, insightful and powerful. Ebullient guides it with precision, asking the right questions at the right time while creating a trusted and energizing space for meaningful outcomes.

Lars Falch
CEO
tornquist

Over the past couple of years Chris has helped me to transform and improve our IT and project organisation. His human approach to challenge and coach everyone to grow through simplicity is super refreshing and effective.

Jonas Tornquist
Chief Operating Officer
marlier

I hereby would like to fully and unconditionally recommend Chris Parker, as an executive Coach. He has been pivotal in helping me grow and remain solid, in the fundamental transformation of our community.  Chris is one of those very rare people capable of mastering the three levers of Logos (intellectual brilliance, thought leadership, and a rare intelligence), Ethos (behaviors, manners, ethics) and Pathos (Values and emotions) with rare success.  Far from the “Teflon Coach” model that we see too often, he is capable, whilst pushing his own ego and needs to the side, to be fully there for you, challenge and support you and disagree when he thinks your intellectual integrity is at risk.  Chris has a rare skill in coaching or being an agile “sparring-partner”.

Didier Marlier
Managing Partner
elmasry

I’m delighted to recommend Ebullient, whose guidance and impact have been pivotal to our success. Whenever we faced challenges that felt insurmountable, their calm confidence and steady support inspired us to push forward. Their structured approach to problem-solving and ability to create alignment had a profound effect on our growth. Much of our progress today stands on the foundation they helped us build. We’re deeply grateful for their contribution.

Mohamed Elmasry
CEO
wittenstein

I was skeptical at first, being a serial entrepreneur with four companies under my belt. However, the Ebullient experience was super helpful as I pushed through a pivot in our strategy. Working with Ebullient felt like a conversation to me. I’d answer someone else’s questions, and that would give me new ideas (super quickly) to ponder. It felt much faster and more certain than just thinking through things alone. If you need to change directions (or set your first direction), I recommend Ebullient!

Mike Wittenstein
Founder
evers

A great program for keeping an eye on your business and keeping on track!  Things became much clearer for me after using this canvas.  I saw new connections between different parts of my business and made some significant improvements.  It made me think about things which are not daily routine but are very important!

Corina Evers
Solopreneur

Unscripted. Strategic. Surprisingly Human.

Conversations that go beneath the surface of leadership and change.

The leaders we work with often begin their journey through conversations that shift how they see leadership and change.

Hosted by Chris Parker, the Business Simplicity Podcast is a curated space where founders, executives, and transformation leaders share how they navigate complexity and move forward with intention and clarity.

Each episode offers an inside look at how bold leaders simplify what matters most. From scaling AI responsibly to leading culture change and aligning teams, guests reveal the hard-earned insights that make progress sustainable.

It’s not just a show. It’s a signal of what’s possible when simplicity leads.

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore” – Rumi

Leadership is not just about direction. It is about humanity.

At the heart of Ebullient is a belief that transformation is only sustainable when it honors the human experience. Strategy and systems provide the structure, but it’s the way leaders relate, decide, and engage that determines whether change becomes real.

The book Lead from Love with Rumi, written by Chris Parker, expresses this philosophy through 100 concise reflections that bring emotional clarity into modern leadership. Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, each piece explores how empathy, focus, and presence create deeper trust and stronger decisions.

This mindset isn’t separate from our services. It’s what shapes them:

  • In strategy formulation, it sharpens attention on what truly matters
  • In transformation design, it uncovers the human dynamics that unlock progress
  • In leadership development, it cultivates clarity, care, and personal resonance

Love in this context isn’t softness. It’s a leadership stance rooted in awareness, courage, and accountability. It’s how transformation becomes personal and how progress becomes sustainable.

Ready to Simplify What’s Next?

Let’s explore how we can help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

Whether you’re navigating strategic change, exploring AI integration, or evolving your leadership presence, we’re here to help you cut through complexity and create momentum.

Book a conversation to explore how we can support your strategy, execution, and leadership growth.

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