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.
What we believe
We love working across borders, with multinational teams in Europe and beyond. A few beliefs shape how we work:
People-positive mindset.
We believe people can be trusted and are capable of more than their organization usually lets them show. A leader’s real job is to create the conditions where they thrive.
Built to hand back.
We stay only while we’re creating value, and we build your capacity to carry the work without us. Real change happens in daily practice, not in the comfort zone.
Complexity-conscious change.
Instead of a fixed project plan we sense, respond, and steer the work together. We meet you where you are, start by starting, and favor progress over perfection.
Change through people, not to them.
The people inside the organization co-create their future with us, not a report or PowerPoint handed down to them. That’s what makes it real, and what makes it stick.
The Partners
Koen de Boer
Organizational Psychologist. Operating System and Self-Management expert.
Nelia Booden
People Dynamics, Executive Coach. Organization design and strategy execution.
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.
Benoit Hurel
AI & work design
Fons Groen
Self-management
Juliane Martina Röll
Organizational development
Kees van Nunen
AI, product and growth
Richard Wood
Leadership development
Véronique Vallières
Transformation leadership