35,000+ PARTICIPANTS WORLDWIDE
Bas has worked with 300+ organizations worldwide, including IBM, Toyota, Microsoft, Sanofi, Shell and many public sector organizations. His sessions are shaped by the thinking of 20,000+ children across hundreds of ConsultingKids projects.
SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGES
Strategy, leadership, change, innovation or collaboration. No challenge is too complex. Explore the challenges your audience faces through a fresh lens, with their professional expertise at the heart of the experience.
FRESH THINKING. WORK MEETS FUN.
Stories, humor and interaction help people question assumptions, explore unexpected possibilities and learn from each other. Serious challenges become an energizing experience people can take part in.
KEEP THE THINKING MOVING
Take fresh ideas into everyday work through Curious Little Experiments. For a deeper follow-up, Bas’s company ConsultingKids offers various projects and programs that help your organization build on the session.
SEE IT IN ACTION
GET A FEEL FOR THE EXPERIENCE IN ONLY 2 MINUTES
Fresh perspectives, humor and a room full of professionals thinking differently. Take a look at what Bas could bring to your audience.
WOULDN’T THIS BE GREAT FOR YOUR AUDIENCE?
Tell us what you’re planning, and let’s explore how to make this experience work for your audience and the challenges they face.
Signature idea
THE UNLIKELY FORMULA FOR ALMOST ANY PROBLEM
Your audience already brings valuable knowledge, skills and experience. Bas helps people explore what happens when they add fresh eyes and a small step into action.
Expertise
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Childlike Intelligence
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Curious Little Experiments
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Expertise helps you understand what matters. Childlike Intelligence questions assumptions and opens possibilities. Curious Little Experiments help you discover what those possibilities could mean in practice.
The power is in the combination.
CHOOSE THE EXPERIENCE
ONE FORMULA. DIFFERENT FLAVORS.
Your audience. Your challenges. A refreshingly different approach. Whether you’re bringing together 10 or 1,000+ participants, let’s explore the possibilities and shape the experience together.
INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE
Inspire & provoke | 20–45 minutes
A high-energy introduction to Childlike Intelligence and the formula. Stories, real-life examples, humor and four thinking mechanisms invite your audience to look again at familiar challenges.
For conferences, leadership meetings, kick-offs and events.
IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP
Experience & experiment | 45–120 minutes
Give people time to experience how differently children think, question their own assumptions and experiment with applying the approach themselves.
For team events, leadership programs, strategy days and change programs.
IMPACT MASTERCLASS
Deepen & apply | 2–4+ hours
Work on the challenges participants bring into the room. Sharpen the question, explore obstacles and develop fresh possibilities, then shape concrete Curious Little Experiments for everyday practice.
For strategy, innovation, transformation, problem solving and team development.
AUDIENCE VALUE
GO BEYOND LISTENING.
EXPERIENCE IT.
Thinking Like a Child for Professionals isn’t a lecture about creativity. It’s an experience that brings the formula to life. Participants bring their own expertise and discover how Childlike Intelligence opens up new perspectives on their challenges. Through stories, real-life examples, humor and interaction, we invite them to step outside their professional filters and see through the eyes of a ten-year-old. Curious Little Experiments turn that fresh perspective into first steps. No challenge is too complex.
SEE DIFFERENTLY
Experience how children ask different questions, challenge assumptions and uncover possibilities professionals overlook.
CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING
Use No Rules, Have Fun, Do Good and No Shame as practical lenses to challenge existing thinking.
MAKE COMPLEXITY ACCESSIBLE
Reframe your challenge for a ten-year-old. Separate what truly matters from the noise and uncover what professional language hides.
APPLY IT
Bring childlike intelligence directly into your own challenges, strategies, gaps and opportunities.
LEARN FROM EACH OTHER
Share individual challenges and perspectives. Discover what is happening across the organization and how differently colleagues approach complex problems.
ACT DIFFERENTLY
Turn fresh ideas into Curious Little Experiments: small things you can try in your everyday work to discover what happens.
LET’S SHAPE YOUR EXPERIENCE.
What would you like your audience to think or do differently? Tell us what you’re planning, and let’s create an experience around your people, your challenges and what you want to move forward.
ORIGIN STORY
A SURPRISING GROUP OF TEACHERS
Bas is the founder of ConsultingKids and creator of Thinking Like a Child for Professionals. His work connects science, strategy consulting and an Executive MBA with more than a decade of learning from children.
Through ConsultingKids, Bas and his team have worked with 20,000+ children and helped 300+ organizations make complex challenges accessible and translate unexpected thinking into professional insights and action.
That experience is the foundation of what he brings to your audience.
LET’S EXPLORE
Tell us about your event, your audience and what you’d like them to take away. Leave your contact details below, and we’ll get back to you within two working days to explore an experience that fits.
And… No need to have everything figured out yet.
Prefer to get in touch directly? Call +31 6 528 81 023 between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM CET, or send us an email.
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