Iselien is a senior advisor at Kennisland. She focuses on organisations with a public and social role, such as those in education, healthcare and government. Recurrent themes include leadership and talent development, organisational issues and change management.
‘Social innovation’ and ‘changes from within’ are key concepts that underlie Iselien’s approach. Her aim is to strengthen the innovative capacity of people and organisations by means of learning platforms and interventions that enable a different, sometimes daring approach to be applied to organisations and working processes, ensuring lessons can be learned. Interventions are like ‘snowballs’, oil stains, kitchen tables, intermediate spaces and places to hang out. They are figurative spaces in which ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things.
Until October 2010, Iselien was a senior researcher and advisor in the ‘Innovative Organisational Learning’ lectorate at HAN University of Applied Sciences. Prior to that, she spent 14 years as in-company programme manager at Nyenrode Business University. She has a great deal of practical experience in supporting organisations and people in processes of innovation and change, mobilising policy and developing strategy.
The approach she adopts involves creating connections, building bridges between people and groups of people and between conflicting logics, between theory and practice, rationality and emotion, word and deed.
