Who I Work With
The Right Expertise When the Work Demands It
Good advisory and coaching work does not happen in isolation. The challenges leaders face are multidimensional, spanning technology, culture, strategy, sustainability, and human development.
I work with a small group of trusted collaborators whose expertise complements my own. Independent professionals and organisations I have worked with over years, whose judgment I trust and whose values align with mine.
They are brought in when the work calls for it. Not automatically, and never as substitutes for the direct relationship between us. I remain the lead. They bring depth where it matters most.
When Collaborators Are Engaged
Situational Depth, Not a Bench
When leadership alignment requires specialised facilitation. Offsites, transformation journeys, and team development that go beyond strategy into trust, narrative, and cultural shift.
When AI adoption needs practical, grounded guidance. Moving from experimentation to operational value, with governance, ethics, and organisational readiness built in.
When sustainability must become strategic advantage. Business design that integrates environmental impact with commercial innovation and long-term resilience.
When agile transformation needs to take root in how people actually work. Operating models, delivery disciplines, and leadership rhythms that make change stick.
Datachef
Boutique Data & AI consultancy based in Amsterdam, specialising in putting AI into production and making it deliver real business value.
Chris serves as Customer Value Advisor, focused on aligning Datachef’s technical capabilities with the commercial outcomes its clients need.
Engaged when advisory or facilitation work requires hands-on AI implementation expertise and pragmatic, results-driven data capability.
The AI Collective
The world’s largest grassroots AI community, with 70,000+ members across 25+ global chapters. A hub for sense-making, collaboration, and responsible AI stewardship.
Chris serves as Executive Education Lead, designing and facilitating C-suite learning experiences on AI adoption, governance, and value creation.
Engaged as a credential and knowledge source for AI-related advisory and leadership development work.
The GenAI Circle
Global collective of practitioners, designers, and technologists shaping responsible, human-centred applications of generative AI.
Chris is co-author, with GenAI Circle contributors, of INFUSED: The 90-Day Handbook for Safe, Disciplined, Human-Centred AI Adoption.
Engaged when AI strategy and organisational readiness engagements benefit from practitioner-led insight and methodology.
Enablers Network
Deep expertise in systems thinking, executive coaching, and cultural transformation. Narrative strategy, leadership presence, and organisational emergence.
Central partnership for co-designing and facilitating executive offsites, transformation sprints, and leadership journeys.
Engaged when leadership teams need to align around trust, courage, and shared narrative, not just strategy.
ELP Network
Experiential learning, leadership journeys, and immersive programmes that activate organisational culture from the inside out.
Ebullient collaborates with ELP on team alignment journeys, cultural transformation, and retreats that complement strategic and coaching work.
Engaged when teams need to experience the change they want to create, not just plan for it.
Wim Lubbersen
Business design and IT-enabled transformation expertise, grounded in decades with KPMG and PA Consulting. Independent, strategic, pragmatic.
Collaborates with Ebullient on sustainability business design, aligning commercial innovation with environmental and systemic impact.
Engaged when transformation requires rigorous business design thinking alongside advisory work.
Circulus Works / Simon Brod
Systems thinker with experience across engineering, operations, trading, and strategy in energy and process industries. Co-creator of Powerpeers Connect.
Collaborates with Ebullient on sustainability business design, contributing industry insight and whole-system thinking.
Engaged when organisations need to future-proof strategy with deep sustainability and energy transition expertise.
Green Elephants
Agile transformation through people-first coaching, reflection, and hands-on training. When people thrive, organisations move.
Partners with Ebullient to embed sustainable agility into transformation programmes.
Engaged when new ways of working and leadership mindsets are the real constraint to change.
Adjugo
Agile, adaptive systems built for learning and collaboration. Deep roots in lean thinking and enterprise agility.
Collaborates with Ebullient on large-scale transformation where operating models, leadership rhythms, and delivery need to align.
Engaged when structure and flow are needed to make cross-functional change stick.
Qhuba
Purpose-driven transformation, interim leadership, executive search, and ESG integration.
Jessica van Beek, partner at Qhuba, collaborates with Ebullient on sustainability business design.
Engaged when organisations need to reframe sustainability as strategic advantage and embed it into operations.
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