He has worked globally for blue chip companies, incubators, and start- and scale ups. His client list includes Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Hershey’s, Cargill, Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg’s, AkzoNobel, Philips and Danone.

He is a well-established organisational design expert, supporting Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Growth Officers, Chief R&D Officers and their teams to deliver more market impact from innovation, deliver effective breakthrough innovation, reduce time to market, increase agility and become more efficient.

His programs typically cover Open Innovation, Lean R&D, Design Thinking, Agile Innovation and Digitised Innovation. 

He focuses on business results and the organisational-, people- and leadership design required to deliver these results.

In his 25 years of industry and consulting experience, in addition to innovation, he has been involved in corporate strategy development, marketing and manufacturing operations.

He works with leadership, their teams and the consulting teams to implement and drive changes by training and coaching, resulting in significant and proven cost reductions, reduced time to market and increased market impact from innovation. He is content driven and has eye for detail.

Harmen holds a BA in Marketing from The Hague School of Economics and an MBA from Delta University in Utrecht, Netherlands.