Stefaan Vandist
Who is Stefaan Vandist?
Stefaan Vandist is a one-man army, creative consultant, keynote speaker and passionate pragmatist who assists organisations to get a grip on their future story. With an impressive list of clients ranging from L'Oréal to Baloise Insurance, Bouwgroep Cordeel and the iconic dance and music festival Tomorrowland, Stefaan demonstrates his valuable contribution to various sectors. For him, the transition to a sustainable society is the most exciting entrepreneurial adventure of our time. For him, future exploration, design thinking and storytelling are powerful tools with which to shape an organisation's future. His inspiration comes from forerunners embracing insights from nature, technology and new business models.
Together with his audience, he explores how to reconnect with nature, society and ourselves. His lectures and workshops are not ordinary gatherings; rather, they are voyages of discovery into the future. He invites his audience to marvel at new possibilities, broaden their horizons and jointly explore attractive and connecting innovation perspectives.
Stefaan wrote three books on the interplay of future exploration, design thinking and storytelling: We, Myself & A.I. (Lannoo Campus, 2018), Pretopia (Lannoo Campus, 2022) and Provotyping (Lannoo Campus, 2024).
Stefan's energetic presentation and view into the future held the audience's attention from start to finish. An inspired, informal and enthusiastic speaker who backed up his story with surprising examples.
Olivier Van Duijn
Huidig CEO Litebit, toenmalig CEO eBay Nederland
Stefaan caught my attention during a seminar on how fast the retail world is changing. With the whole Volvo organisation (both dealers and importer), we are working hard together to create a new retail future. Stefaan has a steering role in this. The goal is to adapt the current retail system to the near future. During the process, it has become clear that change is faster and that the pace is increasing exponentially, rather than stabilising! Stefaan, thanks for your guide work through the future!
Jan van Roosmalen
Voorzitter Dealervereniging Volvo Dealers Nederland
Stefaan’s vision on CSR-strategy is refreshing, entertaining, energetic and still sparks ideas among our teams.
Henk Hofstede
Sector Banker Retail, ABN AMRO Bank
During a steaming and provoking process of business innovation thinking, Stefaan Vandist guided our international team to deeper insights and a spectrum of opportunities on how we can prepare ourselves to a new reality in real estate. We most appreciate his future oriented business creativity and sustainability thinking.
Patrick Meutermans
Head Benelux AEW Europe