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!

ID8 Innovation

Partner & Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant

Senior Innovation Consultant

Symphony Alpha Ventures

Managing Director

ReviewTrackers

Investor

Hitch Works, Inc. (Acquired by ServiceNow)

Starchup

Explorer Surgical

Encube.ai now a part of ServiceNow

Acquired by Hitch Works, which is now a part of ServiceNow

Co-Founder & Investor

GrocerKey - A Point Pickup Technologies Company

Falcon Care

Investor & Advisor

Symphony Corporation

Director of Sales and Marketing

Marketing Director

I have extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and innovation consulting. My strength lies in adopting a scrappy entrepreneurial mindset that not only fuels growth for what I’m working on at the time, but also brings a broad set skills and knowledge that I can carry forward to my next projects and ventures.

My career spans several successful investments at Symphony Alpha Ventures as a managing director, where I led the sourcing, due diligence, and ongoing support for several startup investments in healthcare and enterprise SaaS. I have played an active role as founder, operator, or investor in several successful startups, resulting in eight M&A transactions.

As co-founder and lead investor at Encube.ai, I played a hands-on role in guiding the company’s strategy and designing the UX strategy and user interfaces. Encube.ai was acquired by a venture-backed HR technology startup, Hitch Works, and then a year later I fully exited when the combined solution was acquired by ServiceNow. 

My current professional focus is the continual refinement of the customer discovery process for enhanced efficacy and efficiency. I am a firm believer in the unconventional view that all’s well that STARTS well. The later stages get all the glory, but successful venture building happens in the early days of thoughtful, disciplined exploration of a customer’s habits, preferences, and industry context. Success in this realm is delicate, which is why I am experimenting with different technologies and process tweaks to augment the human decision making that makes for successful ventures–not to replace humans altogether.

I’m always open to chat about innovation-related topics, and to advise early-stage entrepreneurs. Feel free to drop in on my virtual office hours: https://calendly.com/tom-190/office-hours.

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