Workshops Innovation

At the end of 2019 I gave workshop "Future Proof Thinking" in Venice for clients of Umana Forma (Italy). Just in time. Less than a month ago, the Corona crisis set foot there for the first time in Europe.

I once gave an innovation workshop to the top of a national newspaper. They somewhat rejected the need, because, according to them, after drafting a newspaper, it is mainly an exercise to fill in different pages and sections. Less than six months later, the Metro (1st free newspaper) appeared and many media went digital, which challenged many newspapers to renew.

At T-mobile I was again asked for an interactive lecture. How can you make new inventions faster through playful thinking. How do you do that?

Other clients include: Rabo bank, Municipality of Utrecht, Sogeti on behalf of Lumage, Deltion college and HAN University of Applied Sciences, Bawag Bank (Austria).

Creative Workshops

I am also a kind of social inventor. See for example 16 different social inventions in article on LinkedIn. Because of this and because of my theater work in which improvisation plays a major role, I am very creative and can release this well in others. For example, on a number of occasions I have helped employees of the municipality of Enschede to break free from their own frameworks. Or help educational innovators within Han or Deltion to innovate more creatively themselves.

Creativity and applied forms, such as game design, require an attitude approach, insight into blockages, methods and processes to achieve something and tricks to get out of the box. Sometimes that has to be done very quickly.

Together with Set-up Utrecht I supervised Game Storms a number of times, in which employees of municipalities had to come up with game concepts for problems they were struggling with.

Clients include: Lumage, HvA Hogeschool, COCD (Creative thinking experts), T-mobile, NHS (England), Umana Forma (Italy), Die Lichtfabrik (Austria), Whisper (Belgium)

Communication Workshops

The very first time, in the late 1990s, that I gave a workshop to software managers, I boasted that bad communication about software services to companies could cost hundreds of thousands due to misunderstanding. "No," my bluff was punctured, "that costs many millions." That is why it is so important that people in companies understand each other well.

Delivered playful communication workshops on behalf of Lumage at Sogeti, including many times the "Ability Test" in which participants applied their learned knowledge to unforeseen circumstances as the final exam of a lesson series.

Been training theater sports/theatre improvisation for 30 years. In addition to many individual applied theater sports workshops, he also gave a series of lessons at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to improve flexible communication. Taught at teams such as the Noord Sterren, Franje, Something Anders, Tot tot de Dom falls, DOM, TVA Amsterdam and Ymprov.

Also gave presentation workshops, speaking skills, in addition to many of the above-mentioned clients, including the CITO group.

Also taught dialogue and debate, among others to Business College and various other clients.