Meet the team

Laura is a Managing Consultant at Highberg. She helps organizations recognize and address the risks of digitalization. Laura believes that a good conversation about privacy and other public values can foster innovation by improving the quality of services and products through appropriate measures. She is enthusiastic and positive, with a strong focus on understanding each client's needs. Laura weighs the risks and opportunities of digitalization and supports organizations in making comprehensive decisions. She leads a team of consultants aiming to promote responsible innovation, balancing the opportunities of data usage with public values, legal compliance, and operational efficiency. Her team consists of privacy and AI experts with diverse areas of expertise, such as law, technology, business administration, or ethics, working together to achieve these goals. Want to know more? Connect with Laura on LinkedIn.

• Laura.natrop@highberg.com
• +31 (0)6 207 035 92

Florian van Santen is a Partner at Highberg. He assists large organizations in (digital) transformations, focusing on developing organizational capabilities needed to perform in a digital age. Florian has extensive experience in the fields of managing (large) transformation programs, strategy-execution implementations and portfolio management change programs. His drive is helping people and organizations to move forward and creating exciting organizations that can effectively respond to internal and external changes. Florian has led several large-scale (agile) transformations and has advised businesses in healthcare, travel, high-tech engineering , energy and (online) retail.Want to know more? Connect with Florian on LinkedIn.

• florian.vansanten@highberg.com
• +31 6 28991183

Niels Groen (1984) is partner at Highberg. Niels has extensive experience as an advisor for clients in both the private and public sector. He assists clients on issues in the fields of strategy, effective program and project organizations, and scaling agile. Moreover, Niels holds a PhD in policy and governance, based on his research on escalating public IT-projects. His research work has been published in the book 'De Bodemloze Put'. Clients most value Niels’ highly analytical and yet simultaneously creative way of thinking. As a result, he is able to quickly grasp the issue at hand, and come up with surprising solutions. Moreover, his ability to communicate in a clear and non-threatening manner helps him to realize goals that require the involvement of multiple stakeholders.Want to know more? Connect with Niels on LinkedIn.

• niels.groen@highberg.com
• +31 6 52042099

Gido helps organizations to transform from conventional HR to data-driven HR. He supports organization all the way from People Analytics strategy, to roadmap development and implementation. In all three phases Gido takes an integral approach to People Analytics, considering people, process, technology and structure. He successfully supported organizations like ASML, Aegon, Jumbo, Friesland Campina and Van Lanschot Kempen in their transformation to data driven HR.Want to know more? Connect with Gido on LinkedIn.

• gido.vanpuijenbroek@highberg.com
• +31 6 15915590

Sjoerd Hogenbirk is partner at Highberg. Sjoerd has extensive experience in guiding large-scale change initiatives aimed at achieving a performance breakthrough. In roles as a manager, program manager, and consultant, he has assisted both commercial and (semi) public organizations in their improvement efforts. His background is in management and organizational sciences and theology. He is Lean Black Belt certified and adopts a holitisch, no-nonsense approach to improvement. His strength lies in making the (change) vision explicit, creating support for the movement and making more impact together than you can ever realize on your own. 'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.Want to know more? Connect with Sjoerd onLinkedIn.

• sjoerd.hogenbirk@highberg.com
• 31615954171

Marloes is change consultant and partner at Highberg. As transformation partner, she helps organisations with complex changes, agility and leadership development. Constantly looking for the next step and the necessary conditions to take those steps. She wants to understand and develop, and ideally works from shop floor to board room. Sustainable change only happens when all organisational levels are aligned. Marloes' style is indicated as relational and exploring. Together searching for answers and creating the right conditions for growth. She will always try to include difficult subjects or complicated feelings into the discussion, believing that those are also part of the solution.Want to know more? Connect with Marloes on LinkedIn.

• marloes.vandermeer@highberg.com
• 31623507709

Reinier is Senior Consultant at Highberg. With a strong belief that there is always room for improvement, Reinier is passioned about helping organisations to transform and to improve their business agility. With a background in both software development and management, Reinier is a well-versed consultant who has shown his capabilities in helping international organisations with IT implementations, software development and digital transformation programs in both the commercial and public sector.Reinier is known as a goal-oriented consultant, who enjoys overcoming complex challenges together with a team. Reinier holds a master’s degree in business administration.Want to know more? Connect with Reinier on LinkedIn.

• reinier.kersbergen@highberg.com
• +31 6 21169467

Koen is a partner at Highberg. He has 15+ years of experience in organizational change. Working for a major European airline for over 10 years, he gained extensive practical experience in digital transformation, product management, product portfolio management and innovation management. In his last position at the airline, Koen led his own organisation to adopt agile principles at scale, laying the foundation for an even wider transformation across all the airlines' business units.Since joining Highberg (formerly known as BlinkLane Consulting) in 2018, Koen has led several large scale agile transformations and has advised businesses in healthcare, travel, high-tech engineering , energy and online retail. Areas of expertise include strategy-execution, lean portfolio management and product management. Koen is also a senior trainer at Gladwell Academy for all these topics. Want to know more? Connect with Koen on LinkedIn.

• koen.harbers@highberg.com
• 31623047969

Lianne is an experienced consultant, coach and systemic worker. She specializes in change management and behavioral, leadership and cultural development. She is quick to take ownership of complex environments, interpret the context and provide perspective for improvement. She knows how to motivate and inspire with disarming honesty and optimism. Lianne builds relationships, yet confronts were necessary to achieve results. She makes the undercurrent open for discussion, and insists on using both the upper- and undercurrent (systemic) in her projects. When these come together, sustainable change can occur, with appropriate culture and (leadership) behavior.Want to know more? Connect with Lianne on LinkedIn.

• lianne.swenne@highberg.com
• 31631959950

Marijke is a partner at Highberg. She collaborates with executive teams to translate a new strategic direction into an effective approach for leadership, culture, and behavioral development. Together with the client, she develops a customized approach that contributes to making a greater impact with (leadership) teams to improve results. Result orientation, agility, and cross-chain collaboration are the common threads woven through the successful transformations and practices she has built at organizations such as ProRail, Eneco, Stedin, and Menzis.Want to know more? Connect with Marijke on LinkedIn.

• marijke.tenhave@highberg.com
• 31682397952

Frank has over 25 years of international experience in auditing and business consulting. He started his career as a trainee and worked seven years for a big 4 firm on IT Security and IT audit work for international clients. In 2005 he started as an independent Project Manager on security programs for ING and Shell. After that, he started an advisory firm which he sold after three years, to join Siemens to work as a Manager at the global IT audit department in Munich. After joining VKA (now Highberg) in 2011, Frank combined working as a Management Consultant with building and developing internal practices. First the cybersecurity practice, currently the Privacy and Data & AI practice. Frank has a strong focus on business development. He is a productive writer of books, whitepapers and blogs, is an experienced speaker and teacher. Within Highberg, he is coaching several young professionals on development of their commercial skills. Want to know more? Connect with Frank on LinkedIn.

• Frank.vanvonderen@highberg.com
• 310612557358

Since 2022, Henrieke has been working at Highberg in the role of Analytics Translator, with a specific focus on issues related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In her role as an Analytics Translator, she is currently working for Van Lanschot Kempen and advising national and international organizations on a data-driven approach to DEI. In addition to her work at AnalitiQs, Henrieke is pursuing her PhD at the Open University, where she is conducting research on the effective implementation of DEI practices and policies within organizations.Want to know more? Connect with Henrieke on LinkedIn.

• henrieke.vanbommel@highberg.com
• 31648041955