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About

A boutique of senior operators helping leadership teams get unstuck.

We work at the top of the organization because that’s where the leverage is. We only send experienced people, no juniors, no bench-warming.

The Partners

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Partner

Koen de Boer

Organizational Psychologist. Operating System and Self-Management expert.

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Partner

Nelia Booden

People Dynamics, Executive Coach. Organization design and strategy execution.

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Partner

Jurriaan Kamer

Strategy Facilitator. Author of 'Unblock' and 'Formula X'. Global Keynote Speaker. 

The Unblock Collective

The focus of a boutique. The reach of a much larger firm.

Behind the three partners is a wider collective of senior associates we call our Unblockers. When an engagement needs more hands, specialist depth, or a facilitator working in the team’s own language, we bring in experienced independents we’ve worked alongside for years, people who share our approach and our standards.

Based across Europe and working well beyond it, we work in Dutch, English, French, German, and Chinese, with more within reach. The hardest conversations land best in a leader’s own language.

Every person in the room is senior.

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Richard Wood

Leadership development

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Juliane Martina Röll

Organizational development

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Kees van Nunen

AI, product and growth

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Véronique Vallières

Transformation leadership

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Benoit Hurel

AI & organization design

How we work

We are people-positive: teams co-create the work rather than receive it, because ownership comes from involvement, not mandate.

We are complexity-conscious: we change behavior and mindset alongside structure, because you can’t restructure your way to execution.

And we love working across borders, with multinational teams, in Europe and beyond.

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