About
Jurgen
Appelo
As an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Jurgen Appelo helps innovative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He gladly shares stories, games, tools, and practices, so you can create your own way of working as a network organization. Most importantly, he offers the unFIX model for organization design, continuous innovation, and a better human experience.
Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, designer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, runner, freethinker, or … Dutch guy. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Leadership Speaker.
From 2008, Jurgen wrote a popular blog at NOOP.NL with ideas on agile management and organizational change. He is the author of the best-selling book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle. And the fifth book he is working will be Glitches of Gods … a sci-fi novel!
Jurgen can help you upgrade your organizational structure with more engagement and faster results; He can show you how to increase your business agility with faster product development; He shows you how to creatively manage your company; And he can inspire creative professionals with a purpose, helping them integrate work and more joyful living.
Jurgen is CEO of The unFIX Company and Happy Melly and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network.
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My talks are always fun, inspiring, and well-rehearsed, and people often refer to me as an inspiring keynote speaker. My presentation materials are hand-crafted and well-designed. I am able to turn different topics into professional and enjoyable sessions, and the evaluations for my talks are consistently high.

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website credits

Design & Implementation: Juan Franco
Texts: Jurgen Appelo
Photos: Jurgen Appelo, Jürgen Dittmar
Kleer, Annelie Friman, USI

I offer pure infotainment!

My talks are always fun, inspiring, and well-rehearsed, and people often refer to me as an inspiring keynote speaker. My presentation materials are hand-crafted and well-designed. I am able to turn different topics into professional and enjoyable sessions, and the evaluations for my talks are consistently high.

Book me now!

website credits

Design & Implementation: Juan Franco
Texts: Jurgen Appelo
Photos: Jurgen Appelo, Jürgen Dittma
Kleer, Annelie Friman, USI