Technology arriving.
And the question of what it means
for the people who live with it.
I’ve been asking ever since.

It started at home.

My father always brought home the newest gadgets. A buzzer. ICQ. A CU2 page. MSN. My childhood was filled with technology that was new and people figuring out what to do with it.

My brother had a Ninja Turtles sticker book with a red-cyan 3D lens inside. Two lenses. Two images. One reality. That image never left me.

The question that never went away.

I started in the world of festivals, music and live events. Lowlands. North Sea Jazz. Glow Festival. That world taught me something I still use every day: how to create an experience that moves people. How to read a room. How to feel what a crowd needs before they know it themselves.

Then I went looking for the why. At Microsoft I studied how a new platform changed the behaviour of the people using it. My master’s thesis was called ‘The Heart of the Machine at Work and its Mythical Pulse.’ The heart of the machine. That’s still what I’m looking for.

The real work.

I walk into a room and within minutes I feel what’s happening underneath. The tension no one names. The energy that leaks. The decision everyone avoids. That’s systemic work. Reading the patterns, the dynamics, the forces that shape how an organisation actually moves. It started on festival floors, reading crowds of thousands. It deepened through fifteen years of working with leaders who carry more than they show.

I work often with agile organisations. SAFe. Scrum. LeSS. I know these frameworks intimately. I’ve led transformations at scale across all of them, and I’m an ICAgile Certified Expert in Enterprise Coaching. But I’m not the coach who installs a framework. I’m the one organisations call when the framework is in place and something is still not moving.

I bring people together from different sectors and disciplines. I use technology myself as a media archaeologist: combining the newest and the oldest tools to open perspectives and spark rich conversations. Trying things. Being curious. Trusting the process.

Hogeschool Utrecht, 2026

Deep Democracy taught me to hear what a group is not saying. Systems Coaching taught me to see the patterns between people. Transformation Mastery taught me to stay present when everything shifts. I am my own instrument. That took fifteen years of unlearning everything I thought I knew about change. Not just how systems work. But how assumptions, emotions and patterns shape everything underneath.

A family business where two generations see technology completely differently. The founder protects the craft. The successor wants to innovate. They’ve never talked about it. I put them in the same room. Not to agree. To understand what the other is actually afraid of losing. That’s where movement starts.

Why Wise Beyond Years.

I’ve spent my whole life at the intersection of technology and people. First feeling it. Then studying it. Then building in it. Now I help others see it.

Technology is making a quantum leap. But it demands an equal leap in human awareness. Leaders who learn to work with uncertainty, complexity and entanglement rather than trying to control everything. Those two developments are one movement.

The real question isn’t what technology can do. It’s who we want to be alongside it.

That’s the question that drives everything.