Coming from the interaction of technology, strategy, innovation, organization and digitization and focusing on technological, organizational and personal transformation/innovation, Yuri has helped hundreds of thousands of people globally to embrace exponential thinking and doing since 2008.
In 2017, Yuri has been recognized by Thinkers 50 as one of the top 50 best emerging management book authors in the world.
As co-author of the highly acclaimed best selling business book “Exponential Organizations”, he impacted Prime Ministers, board rooms, creatives and change agents around the world at corporates, agencies, startups, governments, communities and purpose driven organizations. How? Via keynotes, workshops, training, digital transformation programs and executive coaching across the world.
Yuri will launch his second book soon as Exponential Organizations is already 40% outdated due to the pace of change since 2012.
Yuri is the initiator and founder of Singularity University the Netherlands, the first spinout in the world outside Silicon Valley. This spinout was opened by the Queen of Holland – Maxima.
His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, Techcrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg and Fortune
Yuri earned a Master of Marketing, Business & Strategy (Rotterdam School of Business).