Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, poet, public intellectual, and one of the most original and disruptive thinkers of our time. Rooted in Yoruba cosmology and informed by posthumanist and new materialist thought, his work invites a radical rethinking of activism, crisis, and what it means to respond to the challenges of our age. He is the founder of The Emergence Network and host of the postactivist course and festival series We Will Dance with Mountains. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, University of Vermont, Schumacher College, and Middlebury College, among others. He is the author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences and the convener of concepts such as postactivism and ontofugitivity. At Kaospilot, Bayo opens up the kinds of questions that resist easy answers — inviting students to slow down, think from the edges, and find new languages for the world we are living through.
Andy Sontag is Kaospilot's Program Director for Experience Design. and a learning experience designer whose work is centred on a single purpose: designing experiences that enable people and relationships to grow. He works with talented producers and experience production teams to create the renowned Kaospilot Experience Design immersions — intensive learning journeys that bring together future leaders from around the world. Andy holds training sessions and gives talks globally, and has developed a distinctive methodology for designing learning that is both transformative and deeply human. His approach is grounded in the belief that the quality of our experiences shapes our capacity to lead, connect, and create — and that experience design is therefore one of the most powerful levers for cultivating the kind of leadership the world needs. At Kaospilot, Andy oversees the Experience Design programme, mentoring students through the full cycle of designing, producing, and evaluating meaningful experiences.
Alexandra Hasdorf
Interim Head of Studies / Team Leader
Interim Head of Studies / Team Leader
Sheila Hoffmann
Purpose Driven Leadership in the Mountains
As a working musician my interest in computers came late. At the age of 41 (1999) I took an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in NT4 Server, NT4 Workstation and NT4 in the Enterprise. The day I got my MCP I started at Kaospilot and have worked there ever since. I did the daily administration on a Debian Linux Serverfor 20 years. The Server was build and maintained by Dr Jones who has been my guide and teacher. Now Kaospilot has changed IT to Microsoft 365, so I am back to the beginning working with Microsoft, and supports around 150 Mac and PC users.
Ane Eline Sørensen
Faculty Lecturer & Regenerative Design Practitioner
Ane Eline Sørensen is a Kaospilot alumna, regenerative design practitioner, and faculty lecturer whose work sits at the intersection of creative leadership, systems thinking, and ecological responsibility. Holding a Master’s degree in Critical, Spatial, and Relational Design from the Royal Danish Academy, she brings a rich background spanning service design, interaction design, brand consulting, and sustainability. She has worked with global organisations including UNOPS, the Freeland Foundation, and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, and has served as a censor on Kaospilot’s Board of Examiners. As a faculty lecturer, Ane Eline teaches the art of critical and creative thinking and how to work from a regenerative mindset — inviting students to question assumptions, work with emergence, and design from a deep understanding of interconnected systems. Her practice is rooted in the belief that the way we design our experiences and environments shapes not only organisations, but the living world around us.
Axelle Bagot is an international leadership expert, executive advisor, coach, and founder of Leadership Lab International. With deep experience working across sectors — from UNICEF and Michelin to civil society organisations and public institutions — she helps leaders and teams navigate complexity, embrace change, and build inclusive, resilient cultures. Axelle trained at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she received a Certificate in Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences, and has since worked across Europe, North America, and beyond. Her approach is grounded in adaptive leadership theory and systems change thinking, with a strong commitment to the human dimensions of transformation. She is an Adjunct Lecturer in Leadership at Brown University’s School of Professional Studies, and brings to her facilitation work a rare combination of strategic rigour and relational depth. At Kaospilot, she engages students in the lived complexity of leading in uncertain times, drawing on real-world cases and embodied practice to explore what it means to lead with humanity, creativity, and impact.
Dr. Chené Swart is a South African narrative therapist, coach, consultant, and author whose work supports individuals, organisations, and communities in re-authoring the stories that shape their lives. Drawing on over 20 years of experience translating Narrative Therapy into organisational and leadership contexts, she helps clients name, understand, and rewrite the narratives that keep them stuck — opening pathways toward preferred futures. She holds a doctorate in Narrative Therapy and a background in Music Education and Practical Theology. She is the author of Re-Authoring the World and has presented workshops across South Africa, the USA, and Canada. At Kaospilot, Chené brings a deeply human, story-centred approach to the development of self-leadership — inviting students to examine the narratives they carry about themselves, their roles, and their capacity to lead, and to begin writing new ones.
Abi believes that we can shape the future we deserve. Her practice in the fields of strategic Social Design, Experience Design, and Environmental Science, exposed her to the key importance of empathizing with the needs and values of people as powerful vehicles towards clear articulation of desired futures and the design of paths towards it. Having worked for decades in the intersections of academe, grassroot communities, public and private sector presented her with the opportunity to cross-pollinate various disciplines and facilitate co- creation for regenerative impact and sustainable business values. Abi is Founder and President of KindMind, a social design laboratory.
David Storkholm is the Program Director of our professional program, Creative Leadership. David has dedicated his life to making people grow and reach their highest potential in leading creative collaboration in innovative teams and organizations. In his own professional, yet playful way, he inspires passion and urges people to meet the world with curiosity. David is a professional coach and leadership trainer. He holds a position as a senior faculty member at the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California, the world leading school when it comes to coach training. He has 20+ years of experience training entrepreneurs and innovators with a creative edge and a global mindset at Kaospilot. To reach the full creative potential and ability to drive change in organizations, Creative Leadership is an intensive and practical journey that raises the overall awareness and readiness to lead less hierarchical and more agile work processes. The program has 500+ alumni from organizations such as IKEA, PayPal, Greenpeace, IDEO, Adidas and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Gustaf Ryborn
Ditte Graa Wulff
Facilitator, CEO & Futures Designer
Ditte Graa Wulff is a facilitator, futures designer, and entrepreneur with deep roots in process facilitation, organisational development, and Futures Design. A Kaospilot alumna, she co-founded Bespoke Copenhagen — a pioneering Futures Studies and Experience Design studio — and has most recently become CEO of Rebuild, a platform focused on regenerating social connection in Europe. She is also founder of Mødehuset, a Copenhagen-based initiative dedicated to making meetings more purposeful and productive. Ditte has worked as an external lecturer at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, teaching process facilitation, dynamic project management, leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She holds qualifications in Business Design and Leadership from Kaospilot, as well as team coaching certification. At Kaospilot, Ditte brings a practitioner’s understanding of how futures thinking, facilitation, and organisational design intersect — helping students develop the craft of designing productive processes and creating spaces where new ideas can take root.
I am a professional experimenter who is constantly propelled by “the why”.
I live and work in Aarhus by way of Milan and New York. I’m passionate about what I do because it allows me to reimagine education and empower students through supporting multi-stakeholder innovation.
One day I want to get a masters in medieval history, but until then, I’ll continue to support individuals, communities and institutions who recognize that we need new approaches to respond to the challenges of our increasingly complex world.
What gets me up in the morning is the desire to build relationships and enable collaborations among people who have the will to work on things that they care for and that positively impact the world.
Flavio is a man on a journey shaped by passion, joy, and meaningful encounters.
Through relationships, he discovers himself and embraces the many roles life offers. Deeply drawn to people—especially those from distant cultures—he finds inspiration in the richness of human connection.
He envisions a world where everyone can live out their full creative potential in relation to others.
Henrique Nascimento is a design strategist, co-founder, and design lead whose work sits at the frontier of complexity, future studies, and systemic innovation. As co-founder of Transformative Times and Design Lead at With Company, he has led pioneering initiatives for global organisations including BMW, Siemens, Audi, and the United Nations Development Programme. He holds an MA Cum Laude from Design Academy Eindhoven and has been a lecturer at Porto Business School, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, and Design Academy Eindhoven. His work has been featured at the Vienna Biennale, Dutch Design Week, and Porto Design Biennale. At Kaospilot, Henrique brings a rare capacity to bridge complexity theory with actionable design — helping students understand how to navigate transition, work with emergence, and build frameworks that are aligned with how reality actually works in a world of accelerating change.
Katrine Mie Goldbach
Klara Granström
Kristiane Uhrenholt Warncke
Kristina Green Bonne
Graphic Design & Communication
Ian Prinsloo is a creative inquiry facilitator, author, and a regular lecturer at Kaospilot, where he teaches Creative Process and Systems Innovation. His work develops the relational quality of groups, using interpersonal dynamics as the platform for generating innovative solutions to complex challenges. Ian has worked as a senior consultant with Reos Partners, leading global change projects, and served on faculty at the Banff Centre for Leadership Development in Canada. In his earlier life, Ian was an award-winning theatre director and Artistic Director at Theatre Calgary for eight years. He is a published author on the development of the Ensemble Relationship, Metaphoric Thinking, and Creative Process within social change. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Calgary and is an accredited facilitator of the Immunity to Change process. At the heart of all his work is a conviction: connecting people to their inherent ability to create is the most powerful lever for change.
Aga Szóstek, Ph.D. is a strategic designer. For the past two decades she worked at the forefront of combining design, technology and business. She collaborated with brands such as Google, Microsoft, Philips, Canon, Samsung, EY, Santander, ING, Orange and many more, bringing the experience-focused strategic approach to project teams and boardrooms. Her approach inspired many organisations to refocus and bet on experiences as their strategic differentiator.
Laura Kjøller Bech
Louis Gilling
Luca Christakopoulos
Leonel Barbe
Business Developer / Staff representative for the board
Business Developer / Staff representative for the board
Indy Johar is an architect, systems thinker, and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs — a field laboratory focused on building the institutional infrastructures needed for radical civic transformation. His work operates at the intersection of governance, economics, democracy, and the built environment, asking how we can redesign the underlying ‘dark matter’ of society — the monetary, regulatory, and policy systems that shape everything else. He has co-founded multiple social ventures including Impact Hub Westminster and Impact Hub Birmingham, and has taught and lectured at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UCL, and TU-Berlin. He has served as an advisor to the Mayor of London, the RSA, and numerous civic institutions globally. At Kaospilot, Indy brings a rare capacity to hold systemic complexity and civic ambition simultaneously — challenging students to think beyond individual projects towards the institutional redesign that genuine change requires.
Jeppe Pachai is an actor, theatre designer, educator, and Kaospilot alumnus whose work explores the intersection of performance, co-creation, and participatory practice. He is the founder of pachai (formerly Kaosteater), a theatre company dedicated to democratising the performing arts, and serves as an affiliated teacher at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. With a background spanning acting, scenography, and educational facilitation, Jeppe brings an embodied and playful approach to learning — one rooted in the belief that how we work together shapes what we are able to create. He has led ensemble processes with theatre companies and educational institutions across Denmark. At Kaospilot, Jeppe engages students in the art of presence, collective creation, and the expressive dimensions of leadership, inviting them to explore what performance and improvisation can teach us about showing up fully in the work we do.
Lovis Perols
Mariana Placido
Marica Soleima Holler
Mathilde B. Christensen
Lærke Emilie Steensbæk
Team Leader (parental cover)
Johannes Bjørkman is a systems thinker, director, and change practitioner working at the intersection of complexity, social innovation, and systemic transformation. He serves as Denmark Director of System Shift, a global initiative dedicated to shifting the underlying structures that shape how societies function. He is also co-founder of Forsamlingshuset, and has worked as a Senior Project Lead at Rockwool Fonden on social mobility and systemic change. Educated at Kaospilot, Johannes brings a distinctive combination of firsthand knowledge of the school’s methods and deep expertise in systems change. At Kaospilot, he engages students in the theory and practice of systems thinking and systemic change — exploring how to read systems, identify leverage points, and develop the capacity to act with strategic clarity in the face of complexity. His work challenges students to see beyond symptoms and to engage with the deeper structures that generate them.
Alberto spent the last 20 years exploring the relationship of people with digital media as an artist, designer, entrepreneur, business consultant, and media executive, working for global digital media players but also starting new businesses in the fields of media and experience design. Alberto is always driven by the aim of trying to make the world slightly more beautiful, useful and meaningful than we found it.
John Michael Schert
Leadership Artist & Adaptive Leadership Coach
John Michael Schert is a leadership artist, entrepreneur, and strategic advisor whose work sits at the intersection of creativity, movement, and organisational change. He spent 18 years as a professional ballet dancer — performing with American Ballet Theatre, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and as co-founder and Executive Director of the Trey McIntyre Project — before bringing that embodied intelligence into the world of leadership development. He holds a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and is the founding principal of JMS & Company, a creative leadership consultancy working across the arts, business, and civic sectors. His approach draws on adaptive leadership theory, the creative process, and physical intelligence to help individuals and institutions navigate complexity, power dynamics, and transformational change. At Kaospilot, John Michael brings an embodied rigour and a rare fluency across disciplines — challenging students to reimagine what leadership can look and feel like when art and strategy move together.
Lenka is a Principal at School of International Futures, global non-profit transforming futures for current and next generations. As systems change foresight practitioner, team lead and transformative coach, she helps
ADVISE decision-makers struggling with complex, future-facing policy and strategy questions – across governments, philanthropists, UN, civil society and corporations.
BUILD, teach, mentor and champion individuals and organisations to use applied, participatory foresight and longer-term planning for public good.
WEAVE, incubate and scale networks of social change agents who are working for better futures at a community and global level.
TACKLE, innovate and test new programmes designed for today’s crunchiest and systemic public purpose challenges like overlapping inequalities, governance crisis and ecological emergency.
She spent the last 8 years of her corporate career at LEGO Group in strategic insights advisory roles influencing decisions on all management levels while steering through complex challenges of education systems and sustainability transformation.
Since 2024, she champions anticipatory and systems leadership at Kaospilot – from horizon scanning for signals of change to reclaiming agency to act in systems transitions. Her passion for human- and humanity-centred design is channelled into hands-on workshops and visioning sessions meant to challenge common (mis)perceptions with nuanced, insightful stories – all in a playful, digestible, and “tangible futures” way.
Simon Kavanagh is the Program Director of our professional program, Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces. Born in Dublin, Simon studied Art and Design Education @NCAD ’96. Already then, showing a passion and interest to create more meaningful learning. But, took a detour for the next 5 years as a Creative Director in multimedia. During these years he designed, programmed and managed hundreds of multimedia titles in the business, educational, IT, online-gaming, leisure and banking sectors and set up divisions in NYC & Paris, where he would soon move. But, not before working as a Learning Consultant for Windmill Lane Studios in the infancy of Interactive Television, Content Management systems, and online gaming.
With the bang of the dotcom in 2001, Simon left Ireland never to return and started on his journey that would lead him to Kaospilot. After a few years in Paris feeding his passion for music, digital media, photography and art, he answered his vocational call as a Learning Designer, and move to Shanghai.
For nearly 3 years he lead and developed the BA faculty of Visual communication for 2 UK universities, until one day, frustrated by the non- existent focus on personnel development in education he stumbled across Kaospilot, which in 2006, was already one of the most experiential education institutions in the world.
After a spell as Team Leader and Head of Studies, he cracked the Kaospilot pedagogical code as open source and created the Kaospilot's first educational consultancy to share it.
"Deliver education that is authentic and opportunistic in nature, experimental and real in praxis. All else is rudimentary.”
Olle Holm
Mary Alice Arthur
International Process Host & Steward
Mary Alice Arthur is a Story Activist, international process host, and an internationally recognised steward of the Art of Hosting community. Her work focuses on using story and participatory practice in service of positive systemic shift — creating spaces where people can find the stories that will take them and their communities into more flourishing futures. With over 25 years of practice, she has worked with organisations and communities all over the world, building capacity for people to host and harvest the conversations that matter. She is also the author of 365 Alive. At Kaospilot, Mary Alice brings the profound power of story and collective intelligence into the work of leadership and facilitation — inviting students to understand how narrative shapes what we see as possible, and how hosting the right conversations can unlock the wisdom and agency already present in any group.
Nana is a former student of team 13. On top of her KP-education she holds a Master in Psychology and is certified Conflict Mediator. For 10 years she’s been focusing on difficult situations, conflicts, communication, resistance, reaction patterns, and mediation.
The main theme in her work is discovering what is below the tensions that arises when human beings are together.
Reinout Smithjes
Thor Bondorph Nielsen
Marketing & Communication
Marketing & Communication
Olivia Klinge
Sandra Pedersen
Tara Sofie Aya Sheridan
Sebastian Poulsen
Nicolas Francisco Arroyo
Strategic Foresight & Foresight Leadership
Nicolas Francisco Arroyo is a strategic foresight practitioner, speaker, and Kaospilot alumnus whose work sits at the intersection of futures thinking and leadership. A co-founder of ARROYO TOLDAM and previously Director of Foresight & Founding Partner at Bespoke Copenhagen, he has spent over a decade helping organisations navigate complexity and build the capacity to lead in an uncertain future. He has also been Partner and Head of Strategic Foresight at Manyone. Nicolas holds a degree in Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Bachelor’s degree in Enterprising Leadership from Kaospilot. He is deeply committed to a vision of foresight that goes beyond data and trends — one that demands genuine leadership and the courage to act on what you see. At Kaospilot, Nicolas brings this conviction to life, challenging students to develop both the strategic and human dimensions of leading into the future.
Danièle is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Canada. With a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Science in Public Health, Danièle Bienvenue challenges the impossible, entertains paradoxes and tames the unacceptable. The ever-adapting human machine has fascinated her for the last 35 years. It is with an organic approach, recognizing the important core of each person and organization that she builds tailored learning environments. She lived and worked in the USA where during 10 years, she created and implemented social integration programs for adult immigrants. In 1994, she returned to Canada to join a consulting firm in human capital and in 2003, she left the more conventional consulting world to explore new coaching and facilitation tools. All tailored programs gravitate around the human dynamic themes. Her methodology encourages an active contribution from the participants and leaves them with practical, realistic and manageable tools. She completed her NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Certification in June 2010.
Sebastian von Leipzig
Theo Levin-Erichsen
William Hewett
Team Leader
Team Leader
Paul Natorp
Creative Leadership Cofounder and course leader
Piotr Rozwalka is a facilitator and conflict mediator with over seven years of experience designing and leading transformative spaces across Scandinavia. His practice brings together authentic relating, shadow work, and conflict mediation — creating conditions where individuals and groups can engage honestly with what is difficult and emergent. Beyond his work in somatic and relational community spaces, Piotr collaborates with companies and public institutions on communication, vision-setting, and conflict resolution. He has also worked with university students in areas of leadership, process design, and entrepreneurship. At Kaospilot, Piotr brings his grounded and embodied facilitation practice to questions of conflict resolution and interpersonal dynamics, supporting students to develop the capacity to navigate tension, disagreement, and relational complexity with curiosity and courage — skills that are increasingly essential for anyone working at the edge of systems change.
Drew is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in the North East region of USA. Drew prides himself in bringing a multitude of experiences to the the learning process. He has the unique combination of experience as facilitator, consultant, learning designer, engineer, and operations manager and combines big picture thinking and detailed implementation planning. Drew is the co-founder of Emzingo, a certified B Corp, focused on creating the next generation of responsible leaders. He has extensive experience with Academia, partnering with universities across the world to design and run experiential learning programs focused on leadership development and social impact. His corporate experience spans a multitude of sectors, including Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, IT, Consulting, Non-profit, and Social Enterprise/B Corp. Drew is also co–founder and co-chair of the B Local Boston board (a professional working group of certified B Corps) where he is helping Greater Boston to use “Business as a Force for Good”. Drew holds an M.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from IE Business School and lives in Boston with his family.
Rune Ernst Toldam
Futures Design & Strategic Foresight
Rune Ernst Toldam is a futures designer, strategic foresight practitioner, and Kaospilot alumnus. He is co-founder of ARROYO TOLDAM and a former founding partner of Bespoke Copenhagen, a pioneering Futures Studies and Experience Design studio that merged with Manyone, where he served as Partner and Head of Futures Design. With a background in Design & Communication and a degree in Creative Leadership & Business Design from Kaospilot, Rune has taught Strategic Foresight and Design Thinking as a lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and other institutions globally. His expertise lies in translating futures scenarios into meaningful products, services, and organisational cultures. At Kaospilot, Rune brings a practitioner’s depth of experience in Futures Design — helping students develop the capacity to not only imagine alternative futures, but to design tangible pathways toward them in real organisations and contexts.
Sissel Hansen is an entrepreneur, founder, and co-creator committed to democratising access to knowledge and opportunity. She is the founder and CEO of Startup Guide, a global publishing and media platform that has produced guidebooks for over 60 cities across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East — empowering a new generation of founders and innovators worldwide. A Kaospilot alumna, Sissel has co-founded Kaospilot+Berlin and Impact the Future, and has served on boards including the Danish government’s green entrepreneurship council. She has been recognised by EU-Startups as one of Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital field. At Kaospilot, Sissel brings the hard-won lessons of building organisations from scratch — the courage it takes to begin, the systems thinking required to scale, and the social mission that can give entrepreneurship its deepest meaning.
Thandi Dyani is a leadership consultant, facilitator, and equity strategist whose work sits at the intersection of inclusion, organisational culture, and systemic change. With a Master's from Copenhagen Business School and over a decade of experience working with corporations, foundations, and governments, she brings a rare depth of cross-cultural understanding to her practice. She has served as Network Organizer for Africa and the Nordics at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, and sits on the DEI Advisory Board at Copenhagen Business School. Her approach is grounded in humanised leadership, radical collaboration, and the conviction that sustainable change requires both structural thinking and relational depth. At Kaospilot, Thandi invites students to examine the cultural and power dynamics that shape organisations — and to develop the courage and skills needed to lead with integrity across difference.
Zazie Tolmer is an evaluation and learning practitioner who works with governments, NGOs, foundations, impact investment funds, and mission-driven ventures to design and implement purposeful learning and evaluation processes. As Director of CoIntent, she specialises in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) for systems change — helping organisations not just measure what they’re doing, but genuinely learn from it in order to act more wisely. She is a co-creator of the MEL 360 Systems Guide, an open-access resource designed to help practitioners integrate complexity-informed practice into their work. Zazie has a background at Clear Horizon and has worked across sectors and countries. At Kaospilot, she brings rigorous, pragmatic tools for assessing impact and value — supporting students to think carefully about how we know if we’re making a difference, and what it means to evaluate work in complex, living systems.
Emanuele is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Italy. Emanuele is an international explorer of chaos characterized by a strong transdisciplinary and human-centered expertise in creative talent development and personal transformation. With a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Aesthetics Philosophy and a specialization in Human Resources Management, he worked for big fours in Human Capital and Digital Transformation for 6 years. Starting from 2018 with his independent project Laborintus – Talent through chaos he carries out innovative labs for creative talent development, aiming to uphold corporates, teams and individuals with an appetite for human-centered innovation. His personal approach is grounded in performative and visual arts, gamified experience design, philosophy and psychology as well as in business and digital transformation. By leading transformation through complex ecosystems and uncertain environments, he helps people, groups, schools and organizations to discover, develop and sustain their own potential in a creative, experiential and transformative way. He’s also a Lego® Serious Play® certified facilitator and Oneiric Drawing Bermolen-Dal Porto counsellor.
Henrique is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Brazil. Born and raised in Brazil, Henrique traveled all over the world and had the privilege to meet, work and study with a range of incredible people. He’s a trainer and facilitator for over 10 years, and he knows how to engage people and generate collaborative processes for co-creation and raising awareness. Many of his travels and work experiences were inspired by his connection to AIESEC, and later by his three years at KAOSPILOT, in Denmark. After being the first Brazilian to graduate from the school, he has been a partner at CoCriar Colaborative Practices upon his return to Brazil. He recently cofounded Manifesto 55, with the purpose of sharing his love and knowledge for educational innovation and social transformation.
Jan is a long standing friend and collaborator to Kaospilot. He works as an entrepreneurial advisor, practitioner and educator in the spaces between stewardship, organisational development, systems innovation, and sustainability. He serves as board member at Center for Social Entrepreneurship Sweden, is part of The 2030s Collective and is incubating CO:REBELS, a social business focusing on supporting young rebels.
Joska is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in the Netherlands. Joska has a warm personality and a creative mind and is able to balance both an analytical and intuitive way of thinking. A colleague once told him that he has the ability to see the big picture down to the smallest details. This mindset proved to be a powerful tool for Joska as teacher of Organisational behavior at the School of Arts in Utrecht (HKU). Using a personal approach to complex organizational issues, he was able to capture the attention of large groups of students. His background as a scientist, therapist and singer have provided him with a solid foundation for this work. Joska is now focused on increasing employee participation, job satisfaction and work quality improvements. The motto of his Spruyt-Lourens academy is: ‘Whistle your way to work’.
Frederik Løbner
Juliana González
Experience Design partner Columbia
Juliana is a Colombian designer that transcended the product world and landed in the Strategic field. With a creative mind and a high social awareness, she works as a consultant around projects with human impact, uniting the design universe with the organizational development. She enjoys working with companies around the globe, using design tools to open people's minds, grow awareness and release their creative potential to achieve and promote transformation.
She is a believer of the power of collaborative action to shape a better future. Co-creation is one of the things she enjoys the most, sharing ideas, perspectives and working with different disciplines inspires and motivates her. Food and human sensitivity make part of her internal engine, that’s why travel and yoga are two of her happy words.
Katja has 20 years international experience leading purposeful organizational development and culture to help clients/employers make a meaningful difference. She is a Kaospilot alumni, with experience working at IDEO, Frog, ustwo and has consulted for many fortune 500 companies. Experience design thinking is in her DNA. Her motto is ‘kindness rules’.
Designing purpose-centered brands, experiences and products. In 2018, after attending the Experience Design training with the Kaospilot, she decided to converge different design approaches by creating Glück: a company focused on creating happiness through design. Today, it is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of creative professionals who believe that being in the business of creating happiness is not just about what makes you happy, but about embracing pain and complexities as opportunities for innovation and sense making. Lais is enthusiastic about happiness and making beautiful things. She currently serves as Chief Happiness Officer & Founder at Glück, a company focused on developing design solutions based on subjective well-being. Instagram: @laisgluck
Managing Partner at KindMind, a social design consultancy and Official Partner of the Kaospilot Experience Design in SE Asia. Marite brings her background in Psychology & the creative industries to her experience, learning & service design work with corporates, NGOs & local governments.
Ivan Grant Petrus
Michael Liehmann
Experience Design partner Austria
Michael is a versatile consultant who helps organizations achieve transformative change by utilizing his diverse skills in systemic consulting, experience design and coaching. This combination enables him to deliver innovative solutions that address complex challenges and drive measurable results.
Ramon is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Australia. Ramon Marmolejosis a learning designer, facilitator and strategy consultant with a passion for developing people and organizations. Ramon has worked in consulting for over 12 years, with a focus on human capital strategy and leadership development. He has delivered human capital consulting work in a variety of industries, including financial services, media, pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies and for clients such as Avon, Bayer, Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Maersk, Microsoft, NASA, Ogilvy, Unilever and Verizon. In addition, he has worked with non-profit organizations including WWF, ActionAid, Red Cross, Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with universities around the world. Ramon is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Emzingo Group. Emzingo provides transformational leadership experiences to business students and young talents by applying design thinking to help solve mission critical issues within social enterprises.
Tim is an experience designer working in both physical and digital domains. He's the product owner at Miljn, a technology startup creating universal access to expert knowledge, and consults internationally to various public and private sector clients. His practice revolves around empathy, close attention to what is happening in the moment, and often finds himself prototyping first and asking questions later.
Vicky Corbella is an official licensee of the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Argentina. She is the founder and CEO of Lucyda, a culture and leadership consultancy where she leads a network of exceptional people. She is dedicated to expanding awareness in organizations and empowering leaders to unleash their full potential. Vicky specializes in designing cultural transformations, co-creating purpose, and delivering upskilling programs that facilitate growth and development. The outcomes of her programs derive meaningful and impactful experiences. Vicky brings a unique blend of expertise in strategy, innovation, culture, learning, leadership, coaching, psychological safety, mindfulness, theatre, research, and analytics to her work. Her ability to think outside the box and connect with people on a deeper level is what sets her apart as a leader in her field.
