Marjo Staring

Marjo is Managing Partner and Co-Founder at DesignThinkers. She holds a MSc in International Sociology and a Master of Arts in human-centered design.

Jeroen van der Weide

Jeroen is Partner & Senior Facilitator, facilitating teams and designing creative processes and brainstorm sessions. He has a MA in Dutch Theatre, Film & Communications.

Tim Schuurman

Tim, Co-Owner at DT Academy, has extensive experience in designing and implementing concepts, holding a MBA & MSc in Business and Financial Management.

Anne-Marie Kaandorp

Anne-Marie is our Manager Operations, responsible for managing and developing our Curriculum to ensure it achieves the highest possible standards of excellence.

Alwin Put

Alwin is founder of DesignThinkers Belgium and an experienced facilitator across the Benelux. He has years of experience in corporate environments and hospitality industry.

Pedro Janeiro

Pedro is Head of Global Accounts for DesignThinkers and proud to have delivered trainings for corporations such as Coca-Cola, Nespresso, IBM, Sap & many more.

Daphne Lamberts

Daphne, Service Development Lead, optimizes course content and is an enthusiastic facilitator of (online) programs with a MA in Concept Development & Trend Research.

Marcello Risolo

Marcello, Design Lead at DesignThinkers, has an extensive experience in designing and facilitating creative climates. He holds degrees from TU Delft and Politecnico di Milano. 

Ilana van de Boel

Ilana, Client Strategy Lead, is first point of contact for clients and in charge of the development of our incompany services, with a MA in Cultural Management.

Filip Pleţi

With a background in Media and Entertainment Management, Filip, our Web Media Expert is the link between the Academy’s online communication and its clients.

Katie Lindhorst

Katie, Digital Marketing Manager, is responsible for all things social media and upholds the brand’s online image as well as making sure DesignThinkers are kept in the loop.

Sterre Tolsma

Sterre, Project Manager, is first point of contact for clients and in charge of the development of our incompany services. She has a background in hospitality and holds a MSc in Management of Innovation.

Jens Broetzmann

Jens is Agile Transformation Consultant, with over 20 years of consultancy experience with customers such as Unilever, ING, SAP and KLM.

Adela Cristea

Adela, Co-Founder of DT Eastern Europe, is an experienced business consultant teaching leadership & entrepreneurship for corporate environments.

Lacramioara Loghin

Lacra, Co-Founder of DT Eastern Europe, is an experienced researcher who works with diverse teams to translate insights to solutions for a happy customer.

Darryl McClay

Darryl, Managing Partner of DT Academy NZ & Australia, has 25 years leadership experience in creative services industry, driving innovation for leading global brands.

Colin Skelton

Colin is a senior design thinking facilitator with a masters in dramatic art. He helps people innovate by using applied theatre (improv) in organisational contexts.

Wibke Sandau

Wibke is an innovation facilitator & Agile Coach. She helps teams to innovate with human-centered design, iterative thinking, rapid prototyping and early testing.

Fieke Sluijs

Fieke Sluijs is senior facilitator and learning experience designer. She inspires people to build creative confidence and unlock their innovative potential. 

Adam StJohn Lawrence

Adam is Service Design & Customer Experience Expert, co-author of ’This is Service Design Doing’, facilitator of the Executive School and MC of the DT Conference.

Thomas de Bresser

Thomas de Bresser is Senior Facilitator & Innovation Coach with extensive experience within corporates such as Philips and Canon in marketing and innovation.

Arne van Oosterom

Arne, Co-Founder, is considered a pioneer & thought leader in Service Design and Design Thinking, successfully merging Business and Creative Thinking.

Marjolein van der Kruk

Yuen Yen Tsai

Yuen Yen is Senior Facilitator with extensive experience in helping ‘fixed’ mindsets in organizations become ‘growth’ mindsets using playfulness and creativity.

Maarten Jurriaanse

Maarten is Senior Facilitator at DesignThinkers Academy. He has a background in branding strategy with a MSc in Corporate Communications.

David Kester

David is Partner of DesignThinkers Academy London. He worked in the creative industries for 25 years and is former Chief Executive of the UK Design Council.

Arnoud Koning

Arnoud is an experienced coach & facilitator. He set up a global Design Thinking program within Procter & Gamble’s Global Business Services organization.

Christof Zürn

Christof is Chief Design Officer of the Design Thinking Centre in Amsterdam, creating space for teams to reflect, co-create and seek change & innovation.

Els Dragt

Els is a Trend Researcher with over fifteen years of experience in spotting and analyzing seeds of change for (inter)national clients, from non-profit to commercial.

Marc Stickdorn

Marc is CEO of More than Metrics, a company creating software for Service Design. He helps organizations to embed Service Design in their processes & culture.