Egbert van Wyngaarden
Shape the future. I enable leaders, teams, and organizations to succeed in the world of tomorrow.
As a trainer, facilitator, and systemic business coach, I focus on creating future capacity.
My What If Then What® approach helps you think profoundly, develop visions of the future, and implement strategic scenarios.
Several times a year I organize exclusive leadership retreats and team incentives in Greece.
What I do
Leadership-Coaching.
Together, we address urgent challenges and develop strategies to enhance your strengths. My coaching focuses on leadership development, conflict resolution, and improving overall performance. I can also empower you to accomplish a professional reorientation and achieve a sustainable work-life balance.
Coaching services: Personal development, leadership development, individual coaching, team coaching, leadership coaching, executive storytelling coaching, career coaching, mentoring, outdoor coaching, resilience building, and sustainability.
True leadership begins with the journey inward. My new book
KNOWING THYSELF connects the clarity of ancient Greek philosophy with the challenges of tomorrow’s leadership. It offers inspiration and tools to help you shape a new kind of leadership culture—mindful, purposeful, and grounded in values.
Team Development.
Through workshops, team exercises, and coaching sessions, I strengthen bonds between team members, improve communication, and build critical competencies. I use creative techniques, storytelling, and interactive tools to make team development highly effective.
Team development services: Communication skills, feedback culture, dialogue, conflict management, team building, natural resilience training, agile methods, work organization, process optimization, and sustainable work culture.
Organizational Development.
As a future thinker, sustainability expert, and agile coach, I help organizations plan and implement transformation. This includes fostering agility, improving adaptability, and embedding future skills into company culture for long-term success.
Organizational development services: Vision & purpose, scenario work, strategy development, cultural transformation, values alignment, change support & communication, leadership culture, agile working, sustainability, and CSR.
Future Capacity: My book STORYTELLING FUTURES presents tools and practices for building future readiness. New narratives can open up perspectives and create space for action—empowering us to shape tomorrow’s world. It’s about leading change, instead of just managing the status quo.
Trainings and workshops.
With extensive experience as a creative trainer and agile coach, I organize inspiring events where new knowledge and experiences can be effectively shared, even with large groups. My interactive methods make learning engaging and impactful.
Training offers: Corporate training, agile facilitation, design sprints, systemic design thinking, workshop facilitation, conference facilitation, large group facilitation, OpenSpace events, future conferences, and sustainability-focused training.
Leadership and Team retreats in Greece.
Spending part of my time in the Mani region in Greece, I offer exclusive leadership and team development retreats, combining reflection, personal growth, and connection with nature. Participants stay in an immersive environment, surrounded by the rugged beauty of the Taygetos mountains and the Ionian Sea. Activities include guided hikes on ancient paths, mindfulness sessions, and tailored coaching to inspire leadership and resilience.
Retreat offerings: Leadership retreats, outdoor coaching, nature-based team building, resilience and mindfulness workshops, and sustainable leadership development.
My background
I am a certified Systemic Business Coach and Consultant, with additional qualifications in Futures Thinking, Sustainability Management, Conversational Leadership & Professional Dialogue, and Agile Coaching.
My career spans international project management, teaching creativity, media and innovation, and writing films and non-fiction books.
In my spare time, I produce organic olive oil in Greece, organize hiking tours, and practice Zen meditation.
Biography
Systemic Business Coaching (ISTOB, 2022-2024). Further trainings: Conversational Leadership (Invitas): Scrum Master & Scrum Product Owner (Scrum.org), Conversational Leadership (Invitas), Sustainabiliy Leadership (IHK), Future Thinking (Sohail Inayatullah), Theory U (Otto Scharmer), Systems Theory (Fritjof Capra), Ecology (Joanna Macy).
Freelance trainer and consultant since 2012. 1994-2024 worked as a project manager, film producer, author and professor of film. Studies: Law (NL), Philosophy (UK), Masters of Business Administration (F). Working languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch. Born 1967 in Rotterdam. Current city of residence: Munich.
I'm certified member of the Systemic Coaching Association of Germany.References
I coach executives, professionals, and private individuals. As a trainer and facilitator, I work with media companies, cultural institutions, public authorities, and commercial enterprises.
Thriving in interdisciplinary and international environments, I enjoy to collaborate with individuals and teams who tackle challenges with an innovative, forward-thinking mindset.
Key influences:
Denkadviseren: A Dutch consulting approach emphasizing active listening and targeted interventions to unleash profound change.
The Turnclub: An initiative using art as a tool for future-oriented action in the Netherlands, inspiring creative techniques and storytelling in my work.
Practical Philosophy: Like Rutger Bregman (Utopias for Realists), I believe in humanity’s potential for positive change through imagination and bold thinking.
If we dare to envision the impossible, we we’ll be able to solve the challenges of our time.