‘Our communications department just doesn’t get it!’ A cry for help you identify with? Could well be, because many communication departments struggle with complex change. They seem to struggle to understand that complexity requires a totally different kind of communication ...

Do you imagine a better future? With less plastic, a more healthy democracy or whatever? But how do you get others to join you on the way there? This podcast series ‘How to create a movement?’ shows you how it’s ...

‘Social inequality exists. In Rotterdam and beyond. This is because poverty, racism, sexism and validism exist too. And so do many kinds of other forms of exclusion and discrimination. We recognise that. We also recognise that climate change and extreme ...

A group of motivated colleagues at ProRail are starting to get impatient. They would so like to see sustainability higher on the agenda within their organisation. Also on the management’s agenda. That is why they are building a green movement ...

Moving from a linear to a circular economy and lifestyle is not just any change; it is a complex transition. A transition of which no one has the roadmap. Not even at the Rotterdam Circular municipal programme.

The Municipality of Nissewaard is developing into a flat, learning organisation, but hasn’t arrived there yet. A number of managers, team leaders and employees are still wrestling to understand: what does a learning organisation mean? What exactly is ownership? How ...

Designers Elien van Egdom, Barbara Pilipp and I developed a co-worker magazine for IKEA Netherlands. The concept: a magazine that is produced almost completely by the co-workers themselves. We supported the co-workers in this process. The magazine won the Grand ...

Water Sensitive Rotterdam (later we called it Rotterdams WeerWoord) is a community initiated by Rotterdam Council to prepare the city for climate change. Together with designer Rogier Rosema, I developed the communication strategy and concept for this movement.