Egbert van Wyngaarden: Shaping the future for leaders and organisations.
I empower leaders, teams, and organizations to be successful in today’s rapidly changing world — mastering change with confidence, leading with clarity, and implementing sustainable strategies.
What I offer:
Coaching for Leaders & Teams
– Clarity, resilience, and impact.
Re:Future – Organizational Transformation
– From foresight to implementation.
Retreats & Future Labs in Greece
– Decision-making beyond the everyday.
For more than 15 years, I have been working independently as a coach, trainer, and consultant — supporting clients from business, media, culture, and the public sector. I am certified by the Systemic Society Germany.
Evolve with Egbert @ What If Then What –
What I do
Leadership-Coaching
Lead with impact, decide with clarity, stay resilient. I support leaders, project and team leads, high potentials, and executive teams in sharpening their roles, setting priorities, and strengthening communication and conflict competence. Together, we cultivate resilience and develop leadership profiles that inspire and guide others — grounded in clarity, empathy, and powerful storytelling.
Formats include one-to-one executive coaching, career realignment with What If Then What®, communication and storytelling training, and team coaching that builds trust, feedback culture, and collaboration. More (in German).
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.
Re:Future – Organizational Development
Re:Future is my framework for organizational development and change. It combines Strategic Foresight, culture development, and practical change design into a coherent roadmap for transformation. We translate future scenarios into concrete strategies, embed purpose and values into decision-making, and ensure implementation through clear communication, enabling formats, and measurable outcomes.
Formats include short, focused Future Sprints, Strategy Labs and comprehensive Change Trajectories. Re:Future creates tangible progress and lasting impact. More (in German).
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.
Retreats
In the Mani region of southern Greece, I host Retreats & Future Labs that invite leaders and teams to step back from daily routines and gain clarity through nature and reflection. Set among ancient olive groves, the Taygetos mountains, and the Mediterranean sea, these retreats combine deep coaching conversations with physical movement and sensory experience.
Formats include individual Leadership Retreats for strategic reflection, Outdoor Coaching on Mountain Hikes for insight through motion, and the annual Olive Harvest Team-Incentive, where collaboration, resilience, and purpose come alive in shared work and authentic connection.
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.
I produce organic olive oil in Greece, where I also organize leadership retreats and outdoor coachings and team incentives during the olive harvest. This is applied methodology: grounding, craftsmanship, and dialogue — a powerful catalyst for transformation.
Master Skillset: Opening Thinking Spaces
Solution-oriented coaching & consulting: Neutral, all-party exploration of goals, resources, and actions. Leadership coaching, team development, and organizational transformation.
Transformative conversations: Precise listening, challenging questions, and targeted interventions. Before finding solutions, there is often a need to sharpen one’s thinking — strengthening judgment and perspective.
What If Then What®: A deep, practice-based framework for designing professional or organizational futures. What If: Open up new ways of thinking. If Then: Play through scenarios. Then What: Design implementation pathways.
Creative methods, storytelling, mythology: Crafting inspiring and effective consulting experiences that foster out-of-the-box thinking, generate new ideas, resolve conflicts, and enable courageous, visionary futures.
Qualifications at a Glance
Education: Systemic Business Coaching (ISTOB, 2022–2024); Scrum Master & Product Owner (Scrum.org); Dialogue & Conversational Leadership (Invitas – David Whyte); Sustainability Leadership (IHK); Futures Thinking (Sohail Inayatullah); Theory U (Otto Scharmer); Systems Theory (Fritjof Capra); Deep Ecology – The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy).
Experience: Independent coach and consultant since 2010. 1994–2025: Project lead, film producer, author, and professor of film.
Studies: Law (NL), Philosophy (UK), Management (FR).
Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Greek.
Background: Born 1967 in Rotterdam. Based in Munich, working across Europe.
Member of the Systemic Society Germany.
Resources
You are welcome to get to know me at one of my upcoming events.
My books Storytelling Futures and Knowing Thyself provide practical tools for future competence and leadership transformation. Let’s also connect on LinkedIn.