Global Transformation Leader | Co-Founder of Global Society for Good Leadership 🔹 Over 20 years of experience implementing global business transformation at C-level in multi-cultural, complex organizations. 🔹 Former COO & Chief Transformation Officer at ING Group, leading digital transformation and operations for 28M+ customers worldwide. 🔹 Experienced in strategy, HR, P&L management, M&A, service & tech operations, org design, innovation, and risk management. 🔹 Certified Leadership Coach and Top 20 Global Thought Leader on Agile. 🔹 International speaker and author on business transformation and ethical leadership. 🔹 Co-author of the Manifesto for Flourishing at Work. 🔹 Committed to crafting good organisations, high-performing teams and sustainable social value creation. Currently developing a moral management theory and ethical leadership standards jointly with the University of St. Gallen (PhD level). Publication expected mid-2025.
The tyranny of "Narratives": how storytelling replaced development
In today’s culture, "narrative" is the new currency of identity. Strategy decks demand a storyboard. Leaders are urged to “own their crucible.” Politicians are coached to deliver “transformational narratives.” Even trauma is expected to be “re-narrated” as catharsis. But this obsession with narrative—while superficially empowering—is symptomatic of a deeper epistemic and moral collapse: the disintegration of personal development.