The Business Simplicity Podcast

In this podcast episode, we discuss how embracing neurodiversity in the workplace can lead to simplicity and innovation. Charlotte Mader, a coach specializing in neurodivergent individuals, shares insights into helping these individuals find their unique strengths, overcome challenges, and contribute effectively to organizations. By creating an inclusive environment, businesses can simplify proble...

In the world of business management, simplicity is key. In a recent podcast episode, Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell discuss how simplicity can transform conflict and decision-making. They sharetheir journey into Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, where meditation and self-reflection helped them find clarity. Swimming with dolphins became a metaphor for inner transformation. They emphasize the importanc...

Mastering business simplicity is vital for success. Simplify your strategy, streamline communication, focus on core values, use technology wisely, and embrace continuous learning. These steps reduce complexity and improve efficiency. Ihab Tag is currently a senior product manager (AI/Automation) at Dstny Engage. His journey has been anything but traditional, as he initially pursued a medical caree...

Matt Lyles is a keynote speaker, author, brand and customer experience consultant, and host of the SIMPLE brand podcast. He’s the author of the upcoming book: SIMPLE brand (releasing 2024). Matt enjoyed a long career with FedEx leading their brand strategy and guiding the effort to redefine their customer experience. Today, he helps companies deliver experiences that create loyal customers and loy...

As an author, speaker and founder, Jurgen is helping creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. He also offers the unFIX model for designing versatile organizations focused on continuous innovation and better human experience. Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. Al...

Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for running self-managing organisations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he co-founded HolacracyOne to share this innovative framework with other organisations ready to self-manage. Brian wrote the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. Over 1000 companie...

Mike Kaeding is the CEO of Norhart. Norhart designs, builds, and rents apartments. They are transforming the way apartments are built and managed by incorporating technologies and efficiencies that have revolutionized other industries, and lead to high-quality, cost-effective projects. Mike’s parents started their family business. However, just a few years after joining the business, Mike’s father...

Jef Cumps is the author of “Sociocracy 3.0 – The novel, the co-founder of iLean and a very experienced teacher and coach supporting all kinds of organisations in their transition towards more agility. He has worked  with many teams, managers and leaders to help facilitate (organisations) change, embrace self-organisation and effectively getting things done in a human way. Jef’s area of expertise i...

Jürgen Maus has worked for 25 years in the visualization company Barco. He worked as a developer, project lead, RD leader, scrum master, and Agile coach. His passion is to unleash the energy, motivation, and inspiration that every individual, team, and organization still has hidden under the surface. The power that can bring a company to its full potential. Jürgen recently joined Adjugo, and he st...

Nick van Summeren is an experienced leader in the technology domain. He has been leading teams in various roles within the Dutch financial industry. He has also been involved in organizational transformation and coaching senior management. His focus is always on ensuring that technology is delivering business value. Besides his professional career, he has been leading church teams for over 15 year...

Frank started his career at Philips Electronics directly after fulfilling his military service at age 20. Combined that with evening studies. He himself often proclaims not having large theoretical background has the advantage you suffer less from bias to tackle issues – later that was called “being able to think outside the box.” He started in accounting, but quickly saw the opportunities of ICT,...

Anil Nashier is a Digital Transformation leader and CIO with almost 25 years of global experience in Senior Leadership/Executive roles spanning Europe, APAC, US & India. Anil has proven credentials in enabling new business models & transforming customer experience via setup of a data-driven digital enterprise. His expertise also includes optimising operating costs through outsourcing and i...

Chris Parker is the host of The Business Simplicity Podcast and was a participant and facilitator during the Sustainability Sprint with Dstny. On this episode, we flip the script and the other coaches interview Chris about his experience. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/sustainability-chris/ The Sustainability Sprint The Sustainability Sprint is a series of five half-day workshop session...

Simon Brod is an energy expert, business and sustainability consultant, poet, Argentine tango dancer, and trainee Feldenkrais practitioner. Born in Oxford, he has made Amsterdam his home. He is the owner of Circulus Works, an advisory practice helping corporate clients navigate the transition to clean energy.    Simon previously held management positions in large and small companies in the energy...

Jessica started her career as a recruitment consultant in IT. As she is always open to new things she dove into beekeeping and made a hobby in to a second career. Helping the bees by creating more biodiversity but also educate companies around these topics. Because of her knowledge around bees and biodiversity she became a natural point of contact around sustainability. That how she started with C...

Wim Lubbersen is a certified management consultant with a background in business economics and organisational change. After working for leading companies such as KPMG and PA Consulting he now works as an independent consultant. He loves teaming up with Chris, Jessica and Simon to help organisations define their sustainability agenda with the Sustainability Sprint.  Wim lives in South Africa and co...

Diane Zandee is versatile.  She is a researcher at Nyenrode Business University, where she is working on her PhD on circular economy and financial challenges. She also teaches at Nyenrode on corporate social responsibility, always from the business perspective. As sustainable CFO, she helps startups understand their business model and their sustainable value in doing so. As a consultant, she also...

Pepijn Palmans is Head of Cloud Infrastructure for the Dstny Group. He has more than 20 years’ experience in IT and 15 years as Managing Director of both Stuart and Kangaroot. This gives a unique insight into both technology and the needs of customers. His technology background, in combination with his people management skills, makes Pepijn the ideal partner to guide companies through large, missi...

Samuel De Wever is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Destiny. He has entrepreneurship in his blood: at the of sixteen, he founded Belgian Network Solutions, a company that provides services to data centres. In 2008, at the age of 22, he launched the telecom provider Destiny, which focuses exclusively on business customers. He started out with his brother in a basement, and now they ar...

Qaalfa Dibeehi is the Dean of the Majid Al Futtaim School of Great Moments – a global conglomerate (retail, hotels, property, grocery, luxury, entertainment, cinemas, etc.) where he is responsible for inspiring employees to demonstrate a customer obsessed mindset.      Qaalfa has over 25 years’ experience in the field of Customer Experience. He was previously with Forrester where he was VP – Consu...

David King Lassman is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in EdTech, AdTech and digital content spaces. David led GIGXR in the acquisition of the Immersive Learning Group, a division of Pearson PLC, the world’s largest education publisher. He has overseen the business as it grew its presence across four continents. Today, he focuses on growing the Company’s brand as its Chief Evangeli...

Gerphil Kerkhof has turned around his life several times. After having studied German Language & Literature (and Philosophy) he worked himself into the business world. He started as a market researcher in the IT market, later on, he became a management consultant in business/IT alignment and ‘ended’ as an enterprise architect.   Seven years ago he went through a process of deep personal transf...

Hessel Kaastra is an experienced business leader working at LeasePlan, a leading global Car-as-a-Service company. He managed the start-up in Mexico from 2008 till 2013, and subsequently realized an ambitious global expansion strategy as a value stream leader and CEO of the group insurance company based in Ireland. More recently, he turned around the Austrian operations, returning the company to gr...

Mathis André is an Entrepreneur and product guy. He loves to turn ideas into new products to initially solve people's problems.   This is how he came to turn FAQs into smart agents to improve customer experience better. Mathis started his career at 16 years old building his first web business in his bedroom before starting Faqbot, he thought that all is about execution and nothing else. Today Math...

Francisco Palao is an internationally awarded innovator who has helped companies around the world transform their business models and teams.  Francisco has published a selection of books offering methodologies which transform organizations and people based on solid validated practices worldwide and his own experience.   In this episode, we explore his latest book: Positive Impact – The Purpose Lau...