Connecting teams and helping them to become more creative in their thinking, being and doing.

Hello 👋 I’m Franklin de Bekker,
Strategist / Trainer / Facilitator / Coach

I help purpose-driven leaders in their venturing endeavours and I empower their teams to go from good to great. By having experience in both innovation, strategy & leadership development we build the mindset and capabilities to realize impact in a fast changing world.

About me

I work at the intersection of

Strategy & Insight
UX Research
Business Design
Brand Strategy

Learning & Development
Facilitation & Coaching
Learning Journeys
One-off Workshops

Innovation & Transformation
Visioning
Value Proposition Design
Business Model Innovation

I’m obsessed with making change beautiful, practical and fun

Don’t take my word

"I experienced Franklin as an exceptional facilitator during a training session with our company. He created a comfortable, positive, and open atmosphere that strengthened bonds within the team and set-up everyone to focus on our strategy-day. His enthusiasm and guidance was invaluable and everyone from my team was speaking highly of his guidance."

Imke Lampe, Managing Director & Partner
Heidrick & Struggles

"Franklin designed and delivered a highly engaging team session. The 8 Crafts For Good Growth Toolkit, which he designed, empowered our people to drive change amidst complexity, trust their intuition, and thrive in continual learning. These underlying beliefs are highly relevant, as we need to master them to become the frontrunner airline we aspire to be."

Tom Verbugt, Vice President of Strategy
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

“Franklin helped me to design a clear strategic roadmap for my teams and partners. He is unafraid to challenge the mission in order to build a compelling story and narrative for change.”

Sacha van Tongeren, Intrapreneur
Amsterdam Public Library

“Franklin's coaching provided a relentless focus on what mattered, stretched and reframed my perspective on how I create value, might generate income and therefore sustainability for the enterprise - and kept me energised and focused in making small and big steps to develop the idea and a deliverable strategy.”

Naomi Russell
Strategic Advisor, Entrepreneur

“Within a complex environment, Franklin was able to translate my innovation ambitions into a concrete strategy with an innovation team that cut straight through existing organisation structures”.

Radboud Dam, Business Developer
University of Amsterdam

“Franklin was one on my inspiring and energetic trainers at a 3 day innovation bootcamp. In high speed and a great combination of theory and practice, he caused a boost in my innovation skills with a lot of fun doing so. Hope to work again with Franklin, great working with him and practical instant results!”

Maarten Willems, Dutch Railways
Program Manager Innovation & Strategy