Daan van Rossum

Lead with AI

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

75% of employees use Generative AI, but 60% of leaders say their organization lacks a plan and vision to implement AI. 

If you're a leader who feels behind on AI, then Lead with AI is for you.

In our course, we get you to be the AI expert your organization needs. 

In our community, over 2000 global business leaders from companies like Apple, Toyota, L'Oreal, and Amazon support each other to stay up to date on the latest AI developments and organizational implications. 

In the podcast, executives at Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft share how they have successfully transformed their organizations to become AI-driven. 

Our newsletter is the only executive briefing on AI with case studies, platform updates, and must-read news. 

Listen, enroll, and join Lead with AI today.

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!

VIVOS

Global Mobility for you & your business.  Expert personalised advice on how to unlock options for your family, your business & your wealth in Singapore and beyond.

I help individuals and businesses unlock global growth. 

With experience from C-suite roles at HSBC to building my own ventures, I provide strategic advisory and global mobility solutions to empower people and companies to thrive internationally.

Co-Founder

Viv Europe

Building a global platform supporting individuals & families on their journey of international relocation & investment

Investor & Advisor

TransEnergy Global

Transenergy Global’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition - with tangible action to keep coal in the ground.

Leveraging certified high-integrity carbon credits, we acquire and take off the market economical coal reserves, using this income stream to deploy clean energy, restore the land and contribute to the community.

In my role I bring my 20+ years of local and global experience - across finance, sustainability, impact investment, and building businesses to help bring our meaningful mission to fruition.

Non Executive Director

IM Advisory Pte. Ltd.

Advising and sharing my experiences and skills, and coaching, on financial services, sustainability, growth, investment, management & operations, international business, work-life balance, career transitions and leadership.

Regular Engagements with: McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Global & Regional Consultants, Due Diligence Firms, Investment Firms, Software Firms

Expert Advisor & Independent Consultant

HSBC

Business COO.  Responsible for business strategy, performance, technology, transformation, commercialisation, propositions, customer journeys, governance, risk & control, operations, finance, regulations, staff experience, customer experience.  

Responsible for business executive committee and governance, deputising for business head, and representing the business across HSBC globally, and with local and global regulators, as well as global partners and service providers. 

Leading a large diverse team of change agents and business enablement leaders, onshore and offshore, driving the delivery of business goals in Singapore and regionally.

Chief Operating Officer

Leading the management, strategy and transformation of the core Commercial Banking franchise.  As well as ensuring strong governance, regulatory compliance, and delivery of business goals and financial performance.

Head of Business Management, Commercial Banking

Leading the largest and fastest growing team in Commercial Banking, supporting > 2,000 of HSBC Group’s clients locally and across Asia Pacific. 

Cash Management, Trade Finance, Digitalisation, Automation & Innovation, Market Expansion, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Treasury & Risk Management, Wealth Management, Business & Finance Advisory, M&A, Insurance & Investment, Regulation & FX Management, Compliance, Marketing, Business Development. 

Established first banking MOU with Singapore Economic Development Board (now Enterprise Singapore), partnered and travelled with Singapore government and trade bodies globally. 

UK & European Desk Head. HSBC Next Generation Leader. >80% revenue growth p.a.

Team Head International Corporate Banking

Supporting clients growth and expansion across Asia Pacific via Singapore, and meeting their full range of business, family and personal financial needs, leading teams across the region, globally and across HSBC.

Business Development & Regional Relationship Manager

Global Management Talent, Progression & Leadership Programme.

Mentoring, recruiting and representing HSBC Group leadership externally across Malaysia, USA, UK & Singapore

International Manager

Competing due diligence and transactional credit approvals and reviews on some of HSBC’s largest and most complex global hedge fund counterparties, managing through the disruption of the European debt crisis.

Manager Hedge Fund Credit

Reviewing and approving corporate, institutional & investment banking credit proposals with a personal approval authority up to USD 50m. As well as preparing credit summaries for the HSBC Group CEO to approve.

Manager Group Risk

Managed a large consumer finance branch network of > 1,000 branches across the western United States. 

People Management, Sales & Distribution, Customer Service, Legal & Regulatory, Innovation, Digitalisation.

Also managed 4 rounds of business optimisation, staff impact and market exits, as the final HSBC Group employee in the business.

Senior Vice President & Assistant Regional General Manager Branch Operations

Managing the mortgage business of HSBC in Malaysia.

Product Management. Marketing, Strategy, P&L, Balance Sheet, Sales Network, Distribution, Legal, Regulation, Customer Experience, Innovation.

Product Manager Assets

Teach First

Volunteered to teach in one of the official 8 most exceptionally challenging schools in the UK for 2 years, as part of the TeachFirst inaugural cohort - as part of the mission to bridge educational disadvantage. 

While also completing an accelerated formal university teaching qualification.  As well as completing investment banking internships, and leadership training at Imperial College, during school breaks.

Teach First Inaugural Cohort

From bank COO - to helping people & businesses unlock new opportunities

I help individuals and businesses unlock global opportunities and growth. 

With experience from C-suite roles at HSBC - to building my own ventures ... I provide advisory insights and global mobility solutions to empower people and businesses to thrive internationally.

✅ Global Mobility & Business Advisory
✅ Industry Expert Consultancy
✅ Investor & Entrepreneur
✅ Bestselling Author

I've charted my career from graduate to C-suite, over 16 years in a global financial services organisation, working across 5 countries in 11 different roles. 

Crossing the river from employee to Entrepreneur - I now work directly with global clients and organisations - helping unlock opportunities in business and life. 


I can help with … 

- Global Migration & Investment Advisory 

- Internationalisation & Market Entry

- Crossing the river from Employee to Entrepreneur 

- Freedom LifeStyle Design & Global Lifestyle Design

- Industry Expert Consulting & Advisory


I am based in Singapore, and travel regularly - working with clients and partners across Singapore, Asia & Beyond.

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