Hello!

I’m Nick Mastenbroek

(Not your average) Innovation Consultant

hello@nickmastenbroek.nl

+31(6)52626236

Amsterdam, NL

My Resume

About me

All-round change maker working from Amsterdam

Innovation & digital strategy 80% 80%
Change management 75% 75%
Leadership & team dynamics 65% 65%
Creative thinking 80% 80%
Experimentation 60% 60%

freelance consultant with a passion for projects that promote tech as a force good.

🧠 Studying History, International Relations and Digital Management, a life working in Tech contexts and many side projects in (civil) society gave me a wide base of knowledge connecting Business & Tech with Humanities.

🤲 I am skilled in situational leadership, experimentation, scale up strategies, innovation methods, agile working, product & service development and communication.

❤️ I bring drive, a positive approach, quick & creative thinking and a collaborative approach to any team. In my work I prefer progress over slides, iterations over planning and actual over only monetary value.

Experience

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2019-Present, Innovation Consultant @nlmtd

At nlmtd we help organizations to become future-proof. By co-creating a learning organization whose purpose, strategy, people and resources are optimally attuned in order to find the right balance between execution, improvement, innovation and change. So that, as an organization, you can not only secure your own future, but also that of our society and planet.
My main focus is on helping organizations apply the playbook of digital transformations to their sustainability efforts, finding tech enabled solutions to their problems or developing new digital products or services.
Sample projects: IT-Strategy, Make or Buy decision, Accelerating AI Energy transition, Project Manager Employee Data, Product Development Workshop.

2017-2018, Lead Consultant @ Basware

Project Management: Leading all data related topics in the implementation of a new ticketing system for the Customer Services organization.
Sales: supporting sales team with presales activities, client sessions and advice.
Consulting: Helping clients find the optimal onboarding strategies for their ecosystem after go-live.
Strategy: Implementing new department strategy, identifying and implementing process improvements and developing the offering.

2016-2017, Manager Activation Services @ Basware

(Remote) management: Leading a distributed team of program specialists for the Dutch, Belgian and French market.
Service development: Redesigning service offering, processes and pricing, updating internal training curriculum and development of new processes in updated department strategy.
Sales: Working with the sales team creating proposals in my markets.
Stakeholder management: Internal alignment with Country Managers and functional counterparts, escalation point for all activation projects in my markets and project manager for complex projects.

2013-2016, (Senior) Program Specialist

Project management: executing large, international activation campaigns aimed at connecting business relationships of Basware customers to our platform.
Product development: voice of the customer in core team creating a new business portal now used by over one million companies world wide.
More about this project.
Service development: hands on developing a new service for catalog activation.
Sales: (Up)selling solutions directly to SME and spotting and qualification of leads at enterprise customers.
Change Management: creating effective campaign strategies with my clients.

2012-2013, Producer @ LokaalMondiaal

Project management: organizing training program ‘Beyond Your World’ that educated young (aspiring) journalist in foreign journalism.
Partnerships: Initiated a workshop Foreign Journalism on the Night of Journalism.
Communication: responsible for communication of the program through distributing flyers, website updates, creating a social media strategy, press contacts and publishing a magazine.
Journalism: Guest editor of International Development Aid journal ‘Vice Versa’.

2010-2011, Co-founder @ Glopinion

Glopinion was a social media website based on polls.
In a founding team of four my focus area was on the product, mainly website design and branding.

Education & SKills

University

Hyper island

Executive Master Digital Management (started 2021)

This part-time program teaches students how to drive change by taking a fresh approach to problem solving, design thinking, business transformation and leadership.

Utrecht University

Master International Relations (2011)

Master program only open to a selected number of students on international politics and diplomacy. Students learn to analyze historical roots for current affairs from both academic, journalistic and professional points of view.

Bachelor History (2009)

Specializing in contemporary history and international affairs in historical perspective after a general first your focused on becoming acquainted with history from antiquity to modern times.