Coenie Middel
South Africa
Founding partner of Middel & Partners, along with Left Post
Production, Method Unknown, Dondoo Studios,
Createchinteractive, Talentplantation, Mocap SA, Enjin,
TiXSA. Nominated as one of the world’s most inspiring
accountants, and becoming one of the first FORTH accredited
facilitators in Southern Africa, his key focal area is
making innovation a key strategy for short- and long-term
success, and establishing frameworks for radical and
incremental innovation.
Divan Swanepoel
South Africa
A Chartered Accountant and Associate at Middel & Partners
with valuable experience in the field of auditing, assurance
and advisory services. His expertise, and passion, lies
within Advisory, Strategic Financial Analysis and Financial
Modeling where Innovation plays an integral part in his
career.
Dr. Alexander Madl
Germany
A researcher, expert and speaker on innovation, residing in
Berlin - the creative start-up capital of Germany. He made a
career in Research and Development in the chemical industry
and went through the full cycle: from ideation to market,
from strategy to execution. As a freelance consultant he
supports clients all over the world to grow through change,
by innovating themselves.
Nereo Lanzoni
Italy
Graduate in Economics, he has over two decades of experience
as marketing manager in medium-sized companies. In 2012 he
founded Innova. Nereo helps companies and start-ups to
innovate their business model. As a business coach for
innovation, he imagines a world where innovation improves
our everyday life, making people freer and richer in
solidarity-based relations.
Maria Vittoria Colucci d'Amato
Italy
With extensive experience and passion in supporting people,
organisational development and in fostering innovation,
Maria is a graduate in Business Administration, Bocconi MBA,
Executive counsellor coach and FORTH facilitator. As
Co-founder of Evidentia, a consulting company based in
Milan, she aims to contribute to a culture of sustainability
in organisations.
Letizia Migliola
Italy
Has thirty years' passion and experience in designing and
managing people development in large organisations. From
2008 to 2012 Director at FS Formazione, Italian Railways
Group's Corporate University, and from 2015 she became the
co-founder of Evidentia. It's time to make a dent in the
universe.
Marco Stehouwer
Netherlands
Has a master in Public Administration and over 20 years of
experience as an innovation grants and incentives consultant
in the industry and ICT. He’s been active as a FORTH
innovation facilitator since 2017, with special interest in
the financial business services sector.
August Eckhardt
Netherlands
Has a background as industrial design engineer with a master
degree in Strategic Product Design. He also has 10 years of
experience as an innovation grants and incentives consultant
for technological companies. Since 2013, he’s been active as
a certified FORTH innovation facilitator.
Eveline van Eck (MSc.)
Netherlands
With a background in Public Health and over 20 years of
experience in Health Innovation. Eveline is a Master FORTH
facilitator, Innovation Expert and trainer. She works as an
Innovation Manager at GGD Innovation Lab (GGD West-Brabant)
and has her own company as an Innovation Consultant (Trainer
Facilitator). She is co-founder of the first regional Health
Innovation School and EIT Health Alumni.
Jessie Wagemakers
Netherlands
A project manager and policy advisor, with a master degree
in epidemiology, who works on innovation in health care. She
successfully completed the health innovation school South
West Netherlands in 2019 and currently works in a health
care organisation for the elderly (nursing home and home
care) involved in social innovation and health care
technology.
Corina Ghiatau
Romania
A FORTH Master Facilitator with 15 years’ experience in HR
and organisational psychology, psychotherapy and coaching.
She has developed and implemented organisational development
processes such as Performance Management, Talent Management,
Employee Wellbeing, Engagement, Organisational Culture and
Employee Experience in Romania, Poland and France.
Dr Wouter van Leeuwen
Netherlands
Based in the Netherlands, he is the team lead of the
geothermal team at IF Technology, offering mainly subsurface
related consultancy services to accelerate energy
transition. Besides his team lead role he is also
coordinating the R&D and innovation initiatives within the
company.
Ing. Geert Vermeir
Belgium
An international product manager at Ammeraal Beltech with 31
years of experience in industry belting solutions worldwide
focusing on product innovation in the last 15 years. As a
FORTH-facilitator he started "BeMoved" with the mission to
facilitate companies to become future fit helping them to
explore in-house talents.
Mathijs Niehaus
Netherlands
With over 22 years of experience in the field of innovation
who started as an employee at Philips Consumer Electronics
he supports companies with innovative thinking & innovative
processes. His experience reaches a broad spectrum of
companies; from public to commercial and small to
multinationals.
Silvia Zubeldía
Spain
As a graduate in Law, MBA at IESE Business School and AMP in
ESADE Business School she is a Master FORTH facilitator.
After a long professional career leading Marketing and
Innovation teams, she became the founder of IMAGO Innovation
where she has developed several innovation projects for
companies from diverse sectors.
Geert Schols MMI
Netherlands
With over 30 years’ experience as a nurse, policy advisor
and innovation consultant in mental health care he is the
founder of SAMEN EEN innovation, helping healthcare and
non-profit organisations to develop new service/product or
process innovations. He is currently also a product
innovation manager at the Red Monkey Company.
Akos Zala
Hungary
A senior consultant, trainer and Managing Director of Human
Telex Consulting, a leading organisational development
consultancy in Hungary, President of the European Training
and Media Association. For the last 4 years his attention
turned to assisting innovation projects, and he became a
Master FORTH facilitator in 2018.
Jens Emrich von Kajdacsy
Germany
A project manager, systemic business coach and FORTH
Facilitator with 20 years’ experience in the IT, logistics
and retail sector. Jens is passionate in working with teams
to take them to their next level and motivate them to go the
decisive extra mile. His focus is on people - making them
effective, visible and successful in their direct
environment. He is convinced that teamwork is a key for
innovation.
Florian Hameister
Germany
Has a background in carpentry, industrial engineering &
management, and as project manager in the field of product
development. He now consultants and act as facilitator to
help companies to become more innovative and to get the
right projects running. He is driven by sustainable
innovation and the idea of circular economy. In the current
Covid crisis he sees a massive chance for us as a society.
Monique Custers
Netherlands
For 25 years she’s been working passionately at the cutting
edge of innovation, strategy and creative development.
Connecting minds, visions and projects that drive Inclusive
Sustainable Economic Development and Social Cohesion. As
co-founder of fem.diamonds, she incubates and accelerate
projects for measurable and sustainable impact and believe
in making a difference in the world.
Fiona Newson-Smith
Fiona is an innovation consultant who helps companies focus on product and service innovation using cross-industry thinking. She has 20 years of experience with SMEs in Europe and the Middle East. She has been an innovation coach since 2015 and is a Master Facilitator of FORTH Innovation Method. Fiona has delivered innovation projects for companies from various sectors including government, energy and utilities. She is fascinated how the impact of a great idea can enrich lives and is a keen trendwatcher.
