I have worked for the European Commission in Brussels for 26 years, where I have held various positions of responsibility in European scientific research, including supervision of more than 100 international research projects involving multidisciplinary teams of natural and social scientists, engineers, philosophers and artists, including quite a few Nobel Prize winners. These days I work mainly on special projects of my own creation. I co-founded three internal start-up projects - a silo-busting collaboration platform used by 15,000 internal staff, a bridging project between art and science that has generated a number of high profile art and citizen engagement shows, and an online learning platform with a global reach and an expectation of 2 million users over 2 years. I like to work on projects that encourage authenticity, intuition, creativity, connectivity and relationship building, and to bring a soul to what is too often the soulless experience of organisational life. I like taking an active role in encouraging, supporting and investing in disruptive change, and enjoy working with people interested in doing the same. Unfortunately, I tend to have to spend a fair amount of time challenging prevailing and rather obsolete management thinking and practice - organisational tools, structures and processes, management and leadership styles, closed or silo'ed thinking, the spaces between things... I have academic qualifications in linguistics and natural language processing, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, economics and business administration, and speak and write fluently in four languages - English, Spanish, French and Italian.