I help you organise around complexity and move to purposeful action.

Strategy & coaching

Creative facilitator

Public speaker

Hi, I’m Tessa Wernink   

Invite me to think with you how to creatively approach organisational and communications challenges and I’ll support the process with a range of tools, coaching expertise and creative facilitation skills.

I work with people and teams in purpose-driven and fast-changing businesses and non-profit organisations. I can help you organise around complexity, create core narratives and build safe learning environments in order move to sustained, purposeful action. 

The whole is more that the sum of its parts, and so I never work without a close connection to vision and mission. 

Strategy &  coaching

Creative facilitator

Public
speaker

Walk the Talk

Besides supporting others, I am shifting the narrative toward a regenerative, inclusive society through storytelling and training.  These are some of the businesses that I have helped build from the ground up.

 

What If We Get It Right?

What If We Get It Right is a podcast offering the business world new narratives and showcasing how to build for-profit businesses that serve planetary and societal needs. I partnered with Impossible – a global planet-centric design agency to start conversations about how people can lead our world in a new direction and where we might be getting it right.

The Undercover Activist

The Undercover Activist is driving a bottom-up movement for positive action in business. We train, coach and embolden young professionals to be optimistic and confident and take constructive action to change their organisations from within.
I partnered with business activist Veronique Swinkels and we offer online courses on positive workplace activism.

Fairphone

Fairphone is a social enterprise using a commercial model and the production of smartphones to drive positive change in the electronics industry. I was part of the founding team, making the world’s first ethical smartphone that is pushing for long-lasting use and circular thinking. I have since moved on, but include this great example of how we created a business model around a campaign for fairer electronics.

“Honestly, yours was one of the most open, energetic, positive and inclusive styles I've ever seen and really learned a huge amount. I've done lots of stuff with many facilitators and you are definitely one of the best I've seen, let alone what your actual contributions were itself!”

Abby Taylor

“Tessa helps you to puzzle through things while holding your hand and not making you feel like it is a dead end. She provides a feeling that everything is valid and worthwhile exploring Furthermore she creates a sense of flow, safe working environments for visioning and sensing”

Tessa heeft ons goed geholpen met het structureren, positioneren en framen van een urgent verhaal waarbij we allerlei verschillende partijen, zowel publieke en private sector, in beweging moeten brengen. Ze weet grootse ambities te vertalen naar concrete resultaten en leerde ons voortdurend te verplaatsen in de mensen en de organisaties die we bij deze ambitie willen betrekken of bereiken.

Quirine van Eeden, concept ontwikkelaar

Tessa's holistic and pragmatic approach guided us through the complexity of setting up our company as a tool for change. With her advice on messaging, Tessa helped us pitch the impact of our start-up - which was essential to get funding.

Fabian Huhne, founder Syllucid

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