Egbert van Wyngaarden: Shaping the future for leaders, teams and organisations
Strengthen your capacity for success in times of uncertainty. I work with leaders, teams and organisations who need orientation in complex situations: clear decisions, dynamic collaboration, future-focused transformation.
What I offer:
Leadership-Coaching and Team Development
– Clarity, resilience, and impact
Organizational Development
– From foresight to Culture Change
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 the fields of business, media, culture, and the public sector.
Evolve with Egbert @ What If Then What
What I do
Executive & Leadership Coaching
For executives, senior managers and founders. Make clearer decisions under pressure, communicate more effectively, and give your leadership style a stronger profile.
Typical topics:
Clarifying roles, responsibilities and leadership capacity
Developing leadership profile, mindset and impact
Building resilience, judgement and self-management
Handling conflict; effective communication within the team
Professional reorientation: purpose, values and career steps
Bookable formats:
1:1 executive and leadership coaching (5–10 sessions)
Leadership Journey Training (3 modules)
Leadership Clarity Sprint (4 weeks)
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.
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Team Development & Team Coaching
For leadership teams who want to work better together. Clear roles, less friction, and a team culture where challenges and conflicts are addressed early on.
Typical topics:
Roles, expectations, responsibilities and conflict culture
Psychological safety, feedback and communication
Building a constructive culture of dialogue and problem-solving
Organise cross-departmental collaboration
Team alignment in change processes and transformation
Bookable formats:
Teamflow Sprint (1 workshop day + 2 check-ins)
Top-Team Alignment Day (1 day + follow-ups)
Accompaniment of leadership teams in change processes
Facilitation of team workshops and offsite-events
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Organisational Development
For organisations that need orientation and direction in uncertain times, so they can shape their future in a self-determined, active and sustainable way.
Typical topics:
Change and adaptation capability as a new core competence
Developing a new leadership and collaboration cultures
Developing future visions, priorities and strategy
Culture change with a focus on mindset and behaviour
Process design, workshops and dialogue formats
Bookable formats:
Leadership Culture Quickstart (6 weeks)
Future Workshop / Compact strategy process (2 days)
Accompaniment of change and transformation processes
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
Leadership Retreats in Greece
For leaders and high-performing teams who want to renew their purpose, mandate and strategic direction. An intensive premium offsite in the wild nature of Mani (Peloponnese).
What does really matter? By means of outdoor coaching and future labs, you will create yourself a space for radical new thinking—in a setting that offers distance, focus, and supports clear decisions.
My background
I support people in positions of responsibility to make clear decisions in uncertain times, lead effectively, and shape change in a way that truly builds a pathway into the future.
As a certified coach and consultant, I combine systemic thinking, strategic foresight, transformative dialogue, agile methods and sustainability leadership. I help you turn complexity into orientation and the ability to act.
I’ve led international projects and run businesses, and I’ve also taught creativity, media and innovation. This mix makes me a professional outsider in the best possible sense: I ask transformative questions and offer impulses that make a difference in your day-to-day reality.
Master Skillset: Opening Thinking Spaces
I create environments where clear thinking becomes possible again, so you may find clarity, perspective, and decisions you can act on. To do this, I draw on four building blocks that consistently prove their value in my work:
Solution-oriented coaching & consulting: Neutral, all-party exploration of goals, resources, and possible lines of action. Leadership coaching, team development, and organizational transformation.
Transformative conversations: Deep listening, generative dialogue, systemic interventions. Before looking for solutions, it is often helpful to clear and sharpen one’s way of thinking—strengthening judgment and perspective.
What If Then What®: A practice-based framework for designing professional or organizational futures. What If: Open up new ways of thinking. If Then: Run through various scenarios; decide. Then What: Design implementation pathways.
Creativity and storytelling: I put much emphasis on crafting inspiring and effective consulting experiences, fostering out-of-the-box thinking, generating new ideas, resolving conflicts, and enabling the development courageous visions of the future.
Qualifications at a Glance
Education: Mediation & Conflict Resolution (2026); Systemic Business Coaching (2022–2024); Scrum Master & Product Owner (Scrum.org); Dialogue & Conversational Leadership (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 and raised in The Netherlands. Based in Munich, working across Europe.
“If we dare to think the impossible, we find solutions to the challenges of our time.”
References
I work with medium-sized businesses, media organisations, cultural institutions, universities and the public sector.
I’ve supported clients including leading German media networks such as ARD and ZDF, car manufacturers, banks, healthcare companies as well as various ministries and public authorities.
Thriving in interdisciplinary, international environments, I work best with people who are ready to think from the perspective of the emerging future.