Daan van Rossum

Lead with AI

(See FlexOS.work/leadwithAI. For corporate inquiries, including private cohorts, email: daan@flexos.work.)

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Instructor and Host

Future Work

Future Work is my weekly newsletter and podcast on the role of HR in a Happier Future of Work.

Every week for almost two years, I report on key trends and case studies in hybrid work, company culture, remote work, and technology.

Join over 20,000 subscribers at https://www.flexos.work/future-work

Writer and Host

FlexOS

FlexOS is a new media brand and platform for a Happier Future of Work.

With research, podcasts, buying guides, and newsletters, we help leaders stay ahead in a fast-changing world of work. Focus areas include AI, remote work, and hybrid work.

FlexOS was featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and The Economist, and chosen as the Top 20 Hottest Startups of 2024.

Founder & CEO

Dreamplex

Board Member

Great offices enable companies to successfully attract, engage, and retain the best talent. 

The workplace of the future is a space people love to go to. To meet, collaborate, socialize, focus, and grow. This takes a combination of design, hospitality, employee experience, and a flexible approach to lease terms. 

We support companies who care about their people by letting them outsource their entire workplace needs to us. With Dreamplex, they can upgrade their workplace experience without having to invest in additional team members, knowledge, resources, or budget.

From architectural design to events that are purposefully created to foster meaningful connections and from training & development to day-to-day hospitality, we are here to create a Better Day at Work for thousands of employees in Vietnam.

In this, we lean heavily on a great body of research in positive, organizational and behavior psychology, together with what we know about the new generation of Millennials and Gen Z that are filling up the workplace.

Throughout it all, we keep going back to whom we do this for: people. Not users, not workers. But real human beings. And our mission is to positively impact them personally and professionally by delivering a Better Day at Work, the place where we spend up to 100,000 hours of our lives.

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Experience Officer

Director of Experience

Bright - Journey to Happiness

Bright believes that anyone can live happier. That's why we built a platform to inspire and enable young Vietnamese to achieve their dream lives. With a printed and online magazine, trainings, books and gifts.

Founder

Ogilvy 

Lead for Integrated Marketing & Innovation on a number of Ogilvy's key FMCG clients.

Driving new thinking in areas where digital strategy, technology and creativity converge.

Webbys judge, AMES judge, Digital Trainer, OgilvyDo and SellorElse Blogger.

Regional Strategy & Innovation Director

Led Kimberly-Clark brands such as Kleenex, Huggies and Kotex in key APAC markets to deliver truly integrated campaigns that are built around participation rather than communication.

Trained IBM staff across regions in customer-first planning.

SPIKES Asia speaker, Digital Marketing Show speaker, Marketing Magazine Roundtable moderator, Webbys judge, Digital trainer and Marketing Magazine, DMA Digital Market Asia, OgilvyDo and SellorElse writer.

Regional Strategic Client Partner

Led digital transformation efforts for one of Ogilvy & Mather Chicago's biggest clients, integrating digital, social, mobile, eCommerce and shopper marketing against singular business objectives.

Led highly impactful thought leadership initiatives for Fortune 500 companies such as Kimberly-Clark, Unilever and GSK. 

Developed Ogilvy & Mather's first-ever Wearables strategy for an FMCG client.

DMA, Videonomics and YPN speaker, Webbys judge and Digital trainer.

Senior Digital Marketing Strategy Consultant

Delivered human insight-driven omnichannel strategies for top Fortune 500 brands such as Citizens Bank, DuPont, GE Capital, IKEA, MetLife, and Thompson Reuters.

Developed POVs on hot topics (well, at the time) including gTLDs, Tablets, Social and Shopper and trained Ogilvy & Mather staff.

Senior Digital Strategist

Driving creative and media strategy for clients like IBM, American Express, and Ford.

Named one of Ogilvy's 11 "Leaders of the Future."

Digital Marketing Consultant

Media Highway

Led content efforts for a number of companies founded within this incubator, including pioneering concepts in online video and affiliate marketing.

Content Lead

Cyberfood

Co-founded the pioneer in online food delivery services in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, we needed more people with internet who would be comfortable to order food online :)

Co Founder

13k 🚀 People Innovators 😍 Founder & CEO - FlexOS - Author, Future Work - Board Member, Dreamplex - Remote Work • Hybrid Work • Employee Experience • Employee Engagement

Cohort 8 of "Lead with AI" + Executive Community Access are going on sale soon at flexos.work/leadwithai. 

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We deserve to be happy at work.

With an incredible team, we are building the 21st Century Work Experience that lets people learn, grow, have fun, connect, be well, and thrive at work. 

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Before I started my dream job, I worked in marketing strategy for around 15 years in Amsterdam, New York, Chicago, Singapore, and finally, Ho Chi Minh City. 

I spoke at conferences across the world and wrote for a large number of publications. I then made my "life pivot" in 2017, when I decided to pursue my "Ikigai" of letting people find their purpose and design their everyday life towards it.

I spend time not “working” with my wife and son.

FlexOS levels up people-centric hybrid and remote leaders. 

Already used across some of the most innovative companies in the world, we are excited to turn more organizations into a place people love to work – with all of the freedom & flexibility employees crave in this day and age!

Ogilvy

I help B2B clients design strategies and programs that ensure internal audiences, whether customer facing or not, are equipped for change, understand their role and can represent what the company is promising, both internally and externally.

Employee Experience Practice Lead: Sales Enablement, B2B Marketing, Employee Change and Comms

Executive Director of Strategy - BtoB Marketing, Employee Experience and Sales Enablement

Leopard

Responsible for managing strategy department, ensuring methodologies address market needs, driving scalability and agency direction for strategic B2B programs; and managing team objectives, growth and resourcing. Excellent collaborator with executive team and parent company, to align Leopard value proposition with offerings, for differentiation and client expansion.

SVP, Executive Director of Strategy

Responsible for managing profitability and client relationships for key clients. Managed agency win and sales enablement work for GE Capital, a significant success for Leopard. Chief collaborator with account and strategy teams to align thinking and approaches.

Executive Group Director

Ran strategy department of five, responsible for methodology and approach for messaging workshops, and strategic planning. Also managed resourcing and teaming with account and creative to deliver the greatest impact for clients.

Director of Strategy

Via Mediterranea

Developed an educational organization focused on promoting the principles of the Mediterranean lifestyle, to impact the health of individuals, in the Denver/Boulder market. 

As a certified olive oil taster, I led seminars on how to taste EVOO, the health benefits it offered, and how use it to create pretty delicious dishes. We conducted Mediterranean cooking classes to inspire healthy cooking, while instilling the sense of community. We shared some valuable insights through our blog and in social media posts.

Founder - Educational Organization

Karsh and Hagan

Consultant

Barnhart

Primary clients - Winter Park Resorts, Cherry Creek North, Vail-summer

Account Director

Thomas and Perkins

McKinney Silver

Primary clients - Ben and Jerry's, marchfirst, new business

Account Supervisor

Carmichael Lynch

Primary clients - Minnesota Office of Tourism, Cargill-Salt, Department 56

McConnaughy Stein Schmidt Brown

Primary clients - Hewitt Associates, Life Fitness, Illinois Power, Illinova

United Vacations

Marketing Manager

I lead a talented team of EX practitioners in B2B marketing strategy, employee engagement, brand building and change management to engage and activate internal audiences around brands, business strategies and products. 

 25+ years experience serving clients in a strategic capacity for brand building and positioning, marketing, change and sales enablement initiatives. Including agency and client-side experience for both external and internal audiences.  

Certified Change Management practitioner.

Creator of agency methodologies and offerings.

Cultivator of team careers. 

Expert in using strategic insights to steer programs and creative communications.

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