Un-Machine Yourself

In this episode, Mariska and Matt Dubois unpack why projects fail—focusing on scope creep and indecisiveness. They explore how politics, fear, and weak accountability blur requirements and scope, leaving project managers caught between delivery and power dynamics. Guest: Matt Dubois Host: Mariska Peters Produced by Hatch: Producers: Jessica Revet & Robbyn Gray Visuals & Audio Mixing: Robbyn Gray

Hatch Invites is a remote and in-person platform that explores the transformative power of humanized leadership. Hosted by Joris van Heukelom, a researcher and partner at Hatch, Hatch Invites features interviews with leaders from all industries and walks of life. Guests discuss their personal leadership journeys, the elements of humanized leadership they believe are crucial for success, and how to...

Hatch Invites: SPEED UP! - AI-thens Manuel, Nora and Tatjana In this episode of Hatch Invites, host Joris van Heukelom will explore the aftermath of the Deutsche Telekom SPEED UP AI-thens event with 3 special guests from Deutsche Telekom. Focusing on the theme of leading with care in the age of artificial intelligence. 🎙️ Episode Highlights: Manuel Kirailidis, initiator of the SPEED UP Learning ev...

Hatch Invites is a remote and in-person platform that explores the transformative power of humanized leadership. Hosted by Joris van Heukelom, a partner at Hatch, Hatch Invites features interviews with leaders from all industries and walks of life. Guests discuss their personal leadership journeys, the elements of humanized leadership they believe are crucial for success, and how to build and lead...

After reading through Ruben Nieuwenhuis’ CV, Roanne was confused - and a bit dizzy. He is the director of TechConnect, a Tech Talent program to activate & educate underrepresented groups into tech/IT jobs; but he is also a book author, as well as a social entrepreneur and the founder of many startups and companies (TechGrounds, Boeren voor Buren, TekkieWorden, CupolaXS, TechMeUp, Growth Tribe); si...

In today's episode, Roanne meets with Araz Najarian. She enables leaders, teams, and organisations in being purposeful and relevant. Both those that are scaling up and need support in creating focus and pacing their growth, and also those companies stalling in their growth and needing to re-frame and re-ignite their innovative spirit. How does she do that, asks Roanne? The short answer is: by bein...

Martine Beijerman is a Dutch author and legal scholar and currently lives in the USA. Her main research interests are democracy, rule of law and inclusion/exclusion. She has obtained her PhD on democratic legitimacy of international lawmaking. In her book Vreemde eenden (2021 Uitgeverij Podium) she explores the tension between our democratic ideals of equality and freedom and the harsh reality of...

"We should slow down", says change manager Patrick van der Voorn, and: "to be human, means to be humiliated." Roanne figured that that was enough reason to invite him over for a podcast! She and Patrick discuss: - what working in 5 stars hotel taught him: especially that time when there was a fire and he was on the 24th floor, with all of his guests - what are the urgent questions in companies, no...

Some people in this world, but not so many nowadays it seems, are truly humble. This woman is one of them - in the intro to the podcast, Roanne will give you the living proof. Meet: Lara van Druten, CEO and founder of The Waste Transformers, an award-winning company that works worldwide to deal with waste in a way that is environmentally ánd socially sustainable. She's a powerhouse, but, as said:...

Derek Bruce on the importance of storytelling at work, and sneakers in life If we want to be successful at work in the future, we all need to learn how to tell good stories, says Derek Bruce. He is an HR and talent-development senior, who has been working all over the world with market leading global organizations in the Fashion, Financial Services, Media, Retail and Technology industries. At this...

Marieke Vinck, creative director of CharlieMary on circular fashion and uncomfortable change When has it become so normal to throw away clothing we have hardly worn? What is circular fashion? And how on earth do you convince people to change their business model, if they aren’t even interested? In this episode, Roanne meets Marieke Vinck - co-founder & creative director of CharlieMary - the agency...

Robert Overweg on disruptive art, adaptable mindsets and the future of education We, humans, typically try to construct meaning of all that we experience. We see something, something happens to us, and our brains - essentially predicting machines, help us to navigate through an uncertain future - make up a story. This podcast episode is meant to disrupt that. You will hear it in the tone of the co...

Mariah Mansvelt Beck always aimed to have a positive impact on the world. This led her to working for Doctors without Borders - at headquarters as well as in the field - to being a social worker as well as to giving yoga and meditation classes - something she still does. When Mariah was 30 she found out she was developing cervical cancer. This sparked an interest in her health and led her together...

Let’s discuss a topic that is as hot as it is uncomfortable: flight shame. Do you have it, every time you fantasize about buying a ticket for a plane? Roanne certainly does. Never flying again is one future scenario, but flying in a more sustainable manner, is another one - and that’s the one we talk about today. We do so with Maarten van Dijk, managing director of SkyNRG - the pioneer and global...

Robyn M. Bolton is considered an expert in corporate innovation. She has worked as an “intrapreneur” at P&G where she was part of the team that launched Swiffer and Swiffer WetJet, a partner at Clayton Christensen’s growth consulting firm, and she is also the founder of MileZero, an innovation consulting and coaching firm.  She has advised companies ranging from global leaders like Nike, Comcast,...

Have you ever met a futurist before? Roanne did, many times - she’s actually one herself! - and found that they have several things in common. Futurists are multi-interested, stubborn and autonomous thinkers, and highly original and creative. So, let’s meet one of the Netherlands’ best futurists of our times, today: Karsten van der Donk, and see what rings true for him! ;-) Originally trained as a...

Louis de Jaeger (Greenpreneur) on battling helplessness and doing the impossible Louis De Jaeger travelled around the world for 5 years and saw that we’re destroying it. At the same time he found out that people feel helpless about this. And what he they do? He co-founded a train company: Moonlight Express. Bringing nighttrains back into Europe, going from Belgium to Germany. He does way more. He...

With Blue Artichoke Films (Amsterdam), Jennifer Lyon Bell creates award-winning erotic fiction films, documentaries, and virtual reality experiences that illuminate the riveting, intimate, and sometimes delightfully awkward side of sex. Their unique realism leads them to be featured at conferences/panels worldwide in diverse fields ranging from sexology to philosophy. Jennifer also curates erotic...

Umar Mirza on diversity, inclusivity and why flat companies own the future Umar Mirza is a social entrepreneur, change agent, and debat eleader, and his expertise is to scale up social impact projects and companies. He is a founding partner of MDI consultants, a consultancy company with a focus on Social Innovation. He started the Scholierentop, which gathers college students on a platform to infl...

Melanie Rieback is an award-winning computer scientist, and co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She works with ethical hackers for clients like Google and Wikimedia. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the VU, and worked in research and management roles at Citrix and ING, among others. With her work...

Joep Langen is a social entrepreneur, (TEDx)speaker, and moderator. Although he started his career as organizational psychologist and transition consultant, he changed course in 2014, and co-founded Koeckebackers, a commercial sustainable do-good company, which gives opportunities to young disadvantaged adults by offering them a job and a professional talent development programme. People with a di...

Eveline Helmink is a journalist, writer and editor in chief. She is a self-titled cheerleader for failure and discomfort: true happiness isn’t about cutting out the bad days, it’s about accepting life as it is, including the “not so nice” feelings like grumpiness, sadness or discomfort. Therefore, she wrote The Handbook for Bad Days, Shortcuts to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect, a handbook...

Rob van den Dool is cofounder of Yumeko, a social enterprise with an ambitious goal: to change the world. How? By changing the industry that has been doing a lot of wrong to people and the planet, and improving it: the bedding industry. Now, they sell ecological ethical bedding and linen produced without child labor, permanent environment pollution and exploitation of earth, people and animals. In...

Marieke Eyskoot is a sustainable fashion and lifestyle expert, and puts contemporary, conscious living on the map. She is a sought-after (TEDx)speaker, event presenter, consultant for companies that aim to do better, and co-founder of international fair fashion trade show MINT. She is also the author of the modern handbook This is a Good Guide – for a sustainable lifestyle, filled with practical a...

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten is what you may call a 'Serial Internet Entrepreneur', and a very effective one, indeed. He has founded many successful start-ups. One of them was HubHop, the first Wi-Fi hotspot operator in The Netherlands. However, most people will know him from TNW (The Next Web) as its co-founder and running CEO. TNW is a future-proof tech media company which organises, among other...