Kees van Haperen

Managing Director

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Over 20 years’ experience in strategy making, management of change, and programme management for a wide spectrum of public and private customers.

Exceptional Soft Systems Methodology practitioner and strategic thought leadership and conversant with a wide range of problem structuring methods.

Highly capable facilitator, thought leader and change agent.

Visiting lecturer in Soft Systems Methodology for the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Leadership and Management and the MSc in Business Analytics and Consulting at Warwick Business School.

MSc Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, MBA.

Member of the HR Society Council, OR Society, ICPEM, RUSI, AFCEA and UKNDA

CEO of the United Kingdom National Defence Association

Kees has led a number of assignments across defence, national security and criminal justice domains, involving systemic approaches to transformation, lean thinking and business enablement through the use of enterprise technologies and front- or back-office shared services.

Recent projects include support to customers such as NATO, the MoD, several police organisations, and a large service company involving prisons, prisoner escort and custody services. One of these projects involved the review of protective services across the three Yorkshire police forces and Humberside Police, and was recently published in the International Journal of Police Science & Management (Vol12 Nr 2), a copy of the article is available on request. Click here to request

Also see his co-authored paper on learning and crisis management, and a paper on the development of information systems for command and control presented to the NATO Research and Technology Organisation’s Systems Analysis and Studies (SAS) panel

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