YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY
From global corporations to local public institutions. 300+ organizations and counting.
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
After 10+ years of working with 300+ organizations and exploring the thinking of 20,000+ children, we discovered a surprisingly simple formula for complex challenges. Strategy, change, leadership, AI, innovation or collaboration. No challenge is too complex.
The magic isn’t in any single ingredient. It’s in the combination:
Expertise
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Childlike Intelligence
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Curious Little Experiments
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Progress
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.
A masterpiece in simplicity
Bas beautifully shows that even the most complex challenges can be approached with childlike simplicity , with an open mind and a good dose of humor, leading to refreshing new insights
Paul Hartman
Activation Specialist ASICS Benelux
I loved it!
Playfully translating complex research questions on corticosteroid modification to retain anti-inflammatory effects, circadian-driven activation of brown adipose tissue and therapeutic strategies to reduce hepatic inflammation. Loved it and great insights!
Prof Patrick C.N. Rensen
Professor Metabolic Aspects of Vascular Disease at LUMC
Highly recommended!
This approach makes things playful, surprising, and full of fresh ideas. As adults, we tend to approach things the same way over and over again — this method opens up completely new perspectives.It’s wonderful to look at serious challenges with such a fresh, lighthearted view. Truly recommended!
Dennis de Mik
Launch Excellence Lead Pfizer
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. Think of the options below as building blocks we can adapt and combine to fit your audience, ambitions and event.
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 see familiar challenges with fresh eyes.
For conferences, leadership programs, kick-offs and events.
IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP
Experience & experiment | 45–120 minutes
Go beyond listening. Participants experience how differently children think, challenge their own assumptions and experiment with applying the methodology themselves.
For team events, leadership programs, strategy days and change programs.
IMPACT MASTERCLASS
Deepen & apply | 2–4+ hours
An interactive working session applying Childlike Intelligence to participants’ own organizational challenges. Sharpen problem statements. Explore obstacles. Develop fresh perspectives and solutions. Turn them into 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.
AND TAKE IT HOME…
An unexpected bonus: parents, aunts and uncles discover they have their own little consultants at home. The same techniques help you involve children in organizational challenges, decisions and change. Expect surprising insights, fun around the kitchen table and children who feel proud that their ideas matter.
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.
PODCASTS
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS
From the US to the UK and beyond, I’ve had the pleasure of joining podcast hosts and curious thinkers to explore what children can teach professionals about leadership, innovation, change and solving serious challenges.
Different conversations. Different perspectives. One recurring question: what happens when we combine professional expertise with Childlike Intelligence?
Podcast: Leadership Bites
With Guy Bloom (UK), leadership expert, author, founder of Living Brave Leadership and host of the Leadership Bites podcast. Exploring how Childlike Intelligence brings fresh perspectives to leadership, innovation and complex organizational challenges.
Podcast: The Tech Humanist.
With Kate O’Neill (US), one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers (Thinkers50, 2025), bestselling author, former early Netflix employee, and internationally renowned expert on technology, innovation and the human side of AI.
LET’S EXPLORE
Tell us about your event, your audience and what you’d like them to take away. Fill in the form below, and we’ll get back to you within two working days.
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And… No need to have everything figured out yet.
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YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY