Arjan helps people and organisations embrace uncertainty and lead with authenticity to drive sustainable and inclusive progress. With over 26 years of experience in international consulting and entrepreneurship, he supports leaders, businesses, and institutions in aligning financial, social, and environmental value creation. His expertise spans governance, strategic transformation, and the cultural and behavioural drivers of lasting change. A strategic thinker and endurance athlete, Arjan believes that meaningful progress comes from focus, resilience, teamwork, and a spirit of playfulness along the way.

As Associate Senior Consultant at NewForesight, Arjan supports leaders, teams, and organisations working to transform complex systems in finance, energy, food, and other sectors. He believes that real value goes far beyond profit and that true progress happens when financial strength, social impact, and environmental responsibility are aligned with authenticity and integrity.

Arjan works with organisations to navigate uncertainty, simplify complexity, and create clarity in moments that matter. He brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, imagination, and behavioural insight to help clients turn bold ambitions into durable transitions. Throughout his career he has supported financial institutions, corporates, start ups, and public bodies with sustainability strategy, governance, business transformation, and value creation.

He is passionate about cultivating the mindsets and cultures that enable individuals to lead with courage. As an endurance athlete he understands that resilience, focus, and teamwork combined with lightness and playfulness can turn the impossible into meaningful progress.

In More Detail

• Arjan has more than 26 years of experience across consulting, entrepreneurship, and leadership roles in finance, energy, food, and sustainability.
• At Impact Institute he led the Consulting division, supporting organisations to understand, measure, and manage the value they create for society, and contributed to the development of open source impact measurement standards.
• As Director of Business Transformation at AXVECO he helped clients strengthen governance, innovation capability, behaviour, and entrepreneurial culture in the context of emerging technologies and organisational risk.
• He has deep expertise in governance, value creation models, behavioural change, and leadership development.
• Arjan serves or has served on the Advisory Board of the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation.
• As founder of Valuence he supports organisations and leaders to act with clarity and integrity, navigate uncertainty, and achieve sustainable progress.
• His work is grounded in the belief that lasting transitions start with leadership that is self aware, courageous, and committed to meaningful change.