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After a long experience as a sales and in the interim sector, Hélène joined Partena Professional, in 2009, first as District Manager and then respectively as Human Capital Manager and HR Business Partner. When the Board of Directors decided to transform their pyramidal structure into an autonomous and collaborative organization, she selected and supported ten employees to think about a new organizational and business model. When transformation began she mainly focused on coaching individuals and teams to the new paradigm . Today she still supports teams and individuals in anchoring their transformation and leads a specific leadership program.

Tanya is a facilitator, organizational designer and partner at Target Teal, provoked by questioning power structures, challenging old patterns and sensing into new ones. She uses Organic Organization, Dragon Dreaming, Action Learning and participatory monitoring and evaluation methods to help organizations transition into more responsive and collaborative systems. For over 20 years she has worked with teams and on projects in diverse contexts, with the intuit of distributing authority and autonomy, while creating space for people to work with integrity.

Co-founder and co-developer of Sociocracy 3.0, James currently spends his time helping people to get the best out of S3. Besides developing and delivering learning journeys for people around the world, he works with organizations to improve productivity and engagement, increase agility and grow resilient learning organizations where BOTH the people and the organization can thrive.

Together with my colleagues I strive to catalyze success at the human workplace, focusing on organizational transformation, transformational capabilities and a growth mindset. With a broad experience in different industries, having worked both as an internal and an external consultant in headquarters, but also in local functions, I am currently supporting the Baloise transformation into an organization where each of us is “being quick to adapt, team up and achieve”.

Amon van den Borg is CEO and co-founder of Arts en Zorg, the largest primary care organization in the Netherlands. After a career in the military, Amon changed his focus to healthcare, where he started in medical project development in emerging economies. This experience convinced him of the importance of demand and data-driven organized healthcare to make good quality healthcare accessible to everyone. He is a firm believer in entrepreneurship to achieve meaningful innovations. During the last five years, he has set his organization on a path to cultural and technological transformation. Amon lives in Bussum (near Amsterdam) in the Netherlands. He is married and has three adult children. His interests range from outdoor sports to history, arts, and music..

Pierre Duquesnoy has been with Roche for 4 years. As a Civil Engineer, he has energized various roles in Facility Management at Roche's headquarters in Basel. Passionate about new organizational forms, Pierre has contributed to the implementation of the new purpose-driven organizational model within PS Site Services in the roles of trainer and administrator of the Holaspirit platform.

Pierre-Boris has more than 20 years of experience in management and coaching, working with large and small organizations in multicultural contexts. 10 years ago, inspired by the self-management principles of Holacracy, he led his first transformation of a leading technology company. Today, at Phusis, he stewards the shift of full-scale organizations towards more connected collaborative management structures and cultures. He is mainly focusing on developing systems intelligence of leaders and teams and on transforming relationships into powerful authentic partnerships. He is a student of contemplative sciences whereby he draws many inspirations in coaching leaders.

Jos de Blok is the founder and CEO of Buurtzorg (neighborhood nursing). Founded in 2006 with one team of four nurses, Buurtzorg has transformed home-based health care in the Netherlands and it has created an innovative method for nursing care at home. He’s a nurse by education and considered a change agent when it comes to the organization of community based (home) care. Before he established Buurtzorg he had several senior management positions in home care organizations including director Innovations for medical services. He is a globally recognized keynote speaker, changemaker and visionary. As a community based and client centered organization, Buurtzorg connects highly qualified licensed nurses and clients to create positive and proactive solutions that are effective, holistic, and sustainable.

Alice Groen is a Business Consultant at VGZ, one of the largest health insurance companies in Holland. She is an expert in Lean, Agile and Holacracy and loves to share the story of the VGZ Way of Working in which all these three philosophies and methods come together. She will inspire you with the true story about organizational change, she shares the successes and failures of their journey, always adding her personal story in a vulnerable and honest way.

Brian believes that we sit at the threshold of a quantum leap in how we work and organize together. He’s developed an approach for evolving responsive organizations that support human well-being. Brian's company, HolacracyOne, helps teams liberate the creative potential sapped by lengthy meetings and decisions-by-committee. Through Holacracy, a revolutionary self-management practice, companies transform their conventional hierarchies to agile, self-organizing networks. In doing so, they accelerate decision-making and unleash their most effective resource: the empowered leadership of their people.

Nicole Bardet is a member of the Executive Board of the Alternative Bank Schweiz Ltd., in charge of loans to companies and responsible for the introduction of sociocratic methods within the bank. As a member of the committee of an association aiming at the ecological transition in her region, she was able to test new forms of organisation, participation and decision making, which inspired her professional activity. Nicole Bardet was president of the Fédération Romande des Consommateurs in her adopted canton of Fribourg. She is a member of the foundation board of an

Dominik Bolten has been working at Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with more than 100'000 employees for 17 years. He is a graduate engineer and has held various local and global roles in Switzerland and abroad. Dominik is a transformation team member at the Roche headquarter site in Basel where he is driving the implementation of the purpose-oriented, self-organized organizational model within the PS Site Services Organization with its 1500 people.