With a background in organizational psychology and business administration, Kristian’s guiding question in his work life has always been ‘when a group of people gets together to get something done, how come it can be such an amazing experience, or such a mess?’ He grew up professionally working for a large Dutch bank in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when the traditional hierarchy broke down and organizational change was constant. From 2016 to 2020, he lived and worked in the U.S. in the social impact sector. For the past few years he worked as Director of People and Organization for Leyden Labs, a fast-growing biotech aiming to protect the world against respiratory viruses. In his role, he helps build an organization where brilliant people from 25+ nationalities can get together to do their absolute best work. Kristian is married and father of young 2 girls.