From wild idea
to real life.

Following a pilot with one artwork, I built the full delivery structure for Future Village: a cultural and social programme where young people create large art installations with professional artists.

Project lead – development and delivery

• Youth participation
• Social innovation
• Youth co-creation
• Community building
• Festival organisation
• Participatory art project

A physical game exploring resistance to new scheduling methods. Using personas and a large board on the floor, employees discovered how each method affected their preferred shifts.

Game design and facilitation

• Serious game development
• Gamification
• Change management
• Employee engagement
• Organisational change

An evening for healthcare professionals who wanted more than a speaker. Three physical experience rooms exploring Positive Health made the influence of waiting, attention and small gestures tangible.

Concept, delivery and facilitation – together with my business partner

• Immersive experience
• Experience design
• Positive Health
• Healthcare innovation
• Experiential learning

A week-long blended game for healthcare trainees, with a story, independent assignments, puzzles and a competition format. Co-developed with my business partner.

Story, assignments, puzzles and competition format – together with my business partner

• Serious games
• Healthcare innovation
• Gamification in healthcare
• Design thinking
• Experiential learning

A two-day experience for the Ministry of Justice and Security exploring inclusion in everyday behaviour. Afterwards, ten ambassadors wanted to take action within their departments.

Interviews, experience design and facilitation – Ondernemen met Ballen

• Diversity and inclusion
• Inclusion training
• Serious games
• Unconscious bias
• Behaviour change

A development journey exploring life decisions and personal patterns at work. In-person sessions, weekly letters and online group reflection formed a journey inspired by Dante.

Story, assignments, design, coaching and facilitation – with two collaborators

• Personal development
• Transformational experience
• Experiential learning
• Self-reflection
• Experience design

A LEGO game supporting Office 365 adoption. Participants need to organise and share information effectively to complete a building challenge.

Serious game designer

• Gamification
• LEGO simulation
• Digital transformation
• Serious games
• Change management

A LEGO simulation to kick off a procurement change programme. Different roles, partial information and recognisable bottlenecks helped employees discover the parallels with their own organisation.

Game design and facilitation

• LEGO simulation
• Process optimisation
• Serious games
• Organisational change
• Process improvement

An exhibition-floor experience with audio-guided missions, promoting an innovation network in the rail sector.

Experience designer

• Interactive exhibition activation
• Event gamification
• Event concept
• Youth participation
• Experience design

In-depth interviews with employees, from concrete workers to directors, exploring workplace happiness, engagement and needs.

Researcher & consultant

• Workplace happiness
• Employee satisfaction
• Employee engagement
• Qualitative research
• HR innovation

A change programme for the management team of a rapidly growing organisation. Strengthened collaboration and ownership, structured decision-making and coached leaders, creating more space for strategy alongside day-to-day pressures.

Change programme and management team development

• Organisational development
• Team development
• Change management
• Improving collaboration

Facilitated assessments as a starting point for self-awareness, team development and collaboration. The development-focused approach centres on active participation and reflection: exploring strengths, motivations and development opportunities as a basis for the next step.

Assessor & facilitator

An internal community at Pluryn encouraging collaboration, self-organisation and employee initiative. Part of my work on self-organising healthcare communities at Pluryn and Part-up, spanning advice and implementation support.

Community builder

• Community management
• Internal community
• Employee engagement
• Social innovation

Advising organisations on self-organisation, facilitating sessions and helping employees work with Part-up. As an implementation coach, I supported use of the platform and the community around it.

Consultant and implementation coach

• Talent development
• Skills-based working
• Self-organisation
• Community building
• HR innovation

A one-day internal hackathon at MEE Plus. Coached teams worked on projects with support from finance, legal, communications and IT experts. Management could make same-day decisions on resources and implementation.

Facilitator & project support

• Hackathon organisation
• Innovation workshop
• Co-creation
• Social innovation
• Idea development

Managed a community and organised meetups and co-creation sessions in Utrecht and Amsterdam, including Tech Tuesday and Biohacking.

Community manager

• Community building
• Community management
• Networking events
• Knowledge sharing

Co-hosted three Maven Meetups: People Skills, Hufters & Helden, and Mag ik jullie aandacht? at NEMO Amsterdam, with Wouter Eggink on disruptive design.

Co-host

The Utrecht branch of Wundernacht, an existing Amsterdam concept. A letter beforehand and messages along the way guided participants through an evening of surprises.

Organiser of the Utrecht branch

• Immersive events
• Surprise events
• Experience design
• Creative events
• Event concept development

A month-long game of tag for adults, using social media as part of the game. Featured on Studio MAX Live.

Game & concept designer

Helped entrepreneurs take bolder steps through in-depth interviews, inspiration sessions, workshops and action-focused experiences.

Co-founder

• Entrepreneurship
• Creative workshops
• Interactive events
• Innovation
• Concept development

A playful challenge to break habits and invite more spontaneous experiences.

Concept designer

A prepaid credits model gave organisations quick access to a range of independent experts, allowing them to bring in the expertise they needed to accelerate innovation.

Founder

A hackathon in which creatives work together for eight hours on a challenge for a charity. Involved as a volunteer organiser.

Volunteer organiser

A singles event centred on connection: getting to know one another in a different way, beyond the usual introductions.

Concept designer & organiser

A facilitated session on creativity and the art of living, inspired by The Artist’s Way.

Workshop facilitator

Collaborating while the rules change. This active session for energy-sector managers centred on Switchball: a game in which rules, goals and even teams can shift. A playful way to explore adaptability and collaboration.

Facilitator

• Team development
• Serious games
• Team building
• Improving collaboration

How can technology support care while keeping it human? Across three evenings, we brought together the wishes and concerns of clients, staff and parents as the basis for a vision and multi-year plan.

Vision development and session facilitation

• Human-centred technology
• Social innovation
• Co-creation
• Vision development
• Healthcare innovation

Supported day-to-day work organisation at De Zijlen and Careyn. Analysed work processes and use of time, translating findings into practical changes to work plans.

Organisational development

An experience exploring the courage to innovate for young rail-sector professionals, at the Jonge Veranderaars festival in 2021.

Experience designer

• Festival concept
• Interactive events
• Youth participation
• Experience design

A sustainable travel experience for Alliander, titled Adventure or an ordinary working day, in collaboration with Experience Experts.

Experience host

Supported working groups in resolving bottlenecks and making practical progress.

Facilitator

A sustainable company outing for Stryker, delivered through Terra Futura in 2016 under the name Green Tour.

Event organiser

• Sustainability
• Sustainable event
• Corporate events
• Event organisation

An event and advisory project focused on increasing residents’ zest for life.

Event organiser & adviser

An internship at Bever Zwerfsport focused on improving the partner day.

Intern

Making events more valuable by facilitating contact between attendees and connecting people.

Networking host

Organised professional development for youth facilitators.

Event organiser

School workshops on talent development and career choices, aimed at reducing early school leaving.

Trainer

Volunteering as a facilitator of sports activities bringing together children from mainstream and special education.

Volunteer facilitator

Organised creative sessions and co-creation to encourage ideas and collaboration.

Facilitator & organiser

Connected visitors and facilitated interaction at a knowledge-sharing event.

Host

Moderated an event about digital recruitment.

Moderator

Encouraged connection and interaction between event participants.

Host & connector

Guided visitors through an escape room about privacy and data use.

Escape room host

Hosted immersive games and escape experiences.

Experience host

Hosting visitors at The Architect, the Sherlocked escape room in Amsterdam.

Host

Delivered social media strategy training for coaches and entrepreneurs.

Trainer

A workshop about overcoming fear and taking action.

Trainer

Practical networking training for DeBroekriem, also listed as Spreek je netwerk aan. Participants practise making active use of their network.

Trainer

A job application workshop with a playful approach.

Trainer

Worked with behavioural and communication profiles to support teams.

Trainer & assessor

Individual coaching focused on social skills.

Coach

Contributed to a think tank on sustainable employability for ZSW, through Factor Vijf, in 2015.

Facilitator & adviser

A private family game exploring the history of Balk.

Game design

Co-founded and chaired the brewery for four years and three months.

Co-founder and chair (volunteer)

Developed a getting-to-know-you game for colleagues across departments within DG Migration in 2020. The game was not delivered because of COVID-19.

Game designer

• Getting-to-know-you game
• Serious games
• Team development
• Interactive workshops

Developed a community game as part of self-organisation projects.

Game development

Advice and guidance on developing a new market concept for Mevrouw Markt in 2015.

Concept consultant

Involved in an orienteering experience in the Ardennes.

An interactive game in which participants join either the fictional innovative company Look Blue or the struggling Droom en Vreesman, exploring how people and organisations can keep developing and innovating. Played at Permanent Beta Day in 2018 and playtested with twenty Saxion students.

Workshop design & facilitation

Bringing direction, clarity and coordination to an ERP transition affecting multiple departments and core processes. Analysed the existing ERP environment and processes as a whole, making bottlenecks, inefficiencies and information flows visible.

Process consultant — ERP transition support

Volunteering for the European Positive Psychology Conference.

Volunteer

Chair role for the Positive Psychology in Practice conference.

Chair (volunteer)