THINKING LIKE A CHILD FOR PROFESSIONALS Interactive keynotes and workshops
A refreshingly different way to look, think and act when facing serious organizational challenges.
Discover in a keynote or workshop “Thinking Like a Child for Professionals” how a fresh perspective can loosen the grip of terminal seriousness in your organization.
We’ll show you how to strip complex challenges down to their essence, break fixed patterns, and find new refreshing solutions with a playful, open mindset.
No dry lecture — but energy, humor, hands-on experience, and insights you can apply right away.
All this, even with the most complex challenges out there.
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20,000+ children | 300+ organizations | 2,200+ solutions | 6 countries
Break patterns, discover new solutions
Many organizations struggle with the same challenges: teams stuck in fixed patterns, endless meetings that lead nowhere, and a serious atmosphere where fun and energy have disappeared. We call this terminal seriousness.
The result? Predictable solutions with little support — and a rigidity that blocks real progress.
As a keynote speaker and founder of ConsultingKids, Bas Warmerdam shows that things can truly be different.
Combining his background in strategy consulting with over ten years of experience translating complex challenges into the world of children, he demonstrates how the open-minded creativity of kids can unlock fresh thinking on leadership, change, innovation, collaboration, workplace joy, and more.
In his keynotes and workshops, you’ll discover how to break through resistance, bring new energy into your team, and find surprisingly effective solutions — all by thinking with a fresh, childlike perspective.
Want to see a room full of professionals smiling while working on their most important and complex challenges?
Schedule an introduction, and let’s explore how we can bring this experience to your team or organization.
CHOOSE THE EXPERIENCE
ONE IDEA. DIFFERENT LEVELS OF IMMERSION.
From executive teams and senior leaders to high potentials and junior professionals. Sessions can focus on one function, level or team, or deliberately bring different groups together. They work particularly well when participants bring different professional perspectives and discover howdifferently colleagues can look at the same challenge.
Themes can include:Strategy | Leadership | Innovation | AI | Change | Collaboration | Culture | Growth | Sustainability | Governance |Future of Work | Customer Experience
Or something completely different.
No challenge is too complex. Not even yours.
01 - INTERACTIVE KEYNOTE
20-45 minutes | Inspire & Provoke
A high-energy introduction to childlike thinking through stories, real-life cases, humor and the core thinking mechanisms.
Perfect for: Conferences | Leadership meetings | Kick-offs | Events
02 - IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP
45-120 minutes | Experience & Experiment
Go beyond listening. Participants experience how differently children think, challenge their own assumptions and experiment with applying the methodology themselves.
Perfect for: Team events | Leadership programs | Strategy days | Change programs
03 - IMPACT MASTERCLASS
2-4+ hours | Deepen & Apply
A highly interactive working session in which participants apply childlike intelligence directly to real organizational challenges.
Explore challenges. Sharpen problem statements. Identify gaps. Generate fresh perspectives and solutions. Translate them into action.
Perfect for: Strategy | Innovation | Transformation | Problem-solving | Team development
Experiences from customers
I love it!
Your sessions completely, lifts the room, and it also opens the floodgates to communicate with each other. There's a whole different culture spreading amongst the audience. A complete flow of energy and everyone loves it.
Highly recommended!
This approach makes things playful, surprising, and full of fresh ideas. As adults, we tend to approach things the same way over and over again — this method opens up completely new perspectives.It’s wonderful to look at serious challenges with such a fresh, lighthearted view.Truly recommended!
Playfully translating complex research questions. I loved it!
Research questions on 1) corticosteroid modification to retain anti-inflammatory effects while avoiding systemic side effects, 2) circadian-driven activation of brown adipose tissue for targeted drug discovery, and 3) therapeutic strategies to reduce hepatic inflammation and lipid accumulation in metabolic steatohepatitis.
We got an atmosphere where people started to play playfully get together and think of translating research in questions that schoolchildren would be able to solve.
I loved it!
This should be a regular thing for every organization
when you make it simple and you got to explain it to a 10 year old, you don't explain all of the fluff. You go straight to the core. Very refreshing, interesting and fun. Especially for a group of consultants that use big words to explain simple problems. IBM is a huge American conglomerate and this shows that things aren't that difficult. Please come again!
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A masterpiece in simplicity
Bas beautifully shows that even the most complex challenges can be approached with childlike simplicity — with an open mind and a good dose of humor, leading to refreshing new insights. A masterpiece in simplicity.
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A joy to start tackling organizational challenges this way
Bas shows — both through his method and his book — that we’re often stuck in our own context. Breaking free from that helps me see challenges differently and approach them with renewed energy and joy.Organizational and development questions have become a true pleasure to dive into again!
Frequently Asked Questions
Here you will find answers to the most frequently asked questions about our approach, working methods and cooperation.
Is your question not listed? Feel free to contact us.
All Keynotes & Workshops are provided by Bas Warmerdam. He is the founder of ConsultingKids and has been working with this concept for over ten years.
During that time, he gave hundreds of keynotes and workshops, and described his experiences in the book 'Little consultants'. He is therefore the right person to provide these sessions — full of practical examples, stories and answers to all questions you can think of.
And perhaps just as important: Bas likes to be on stage and visibly enjoys every session. You'll notice that right away.
Bas is regularly asked for leadership programs, conferences, symposia, inspiration sessions, management retreats, team meetings, lunch meetings and more. These are done incompany or externally at event.
Yes!
Bas provides Keynotes & Workshops around the world. From Amsterdam to Sydney, and from Tokyo to New York. The condition is that travel and accommodations are safe and the language during the sessions is English (or Dutch).
Bas had done sessions for many large corporates such as Philips, IBM, Shell or Toyota and hundreds of (semi) public organizations.
This possibility is certainly there. How nice when participants have something in their hands afterwards where they can read tips & tricks, great practical examples and more! If you let us know at the intake how many books you would like to purchase, we will incorporate this into the offer. On-site signing is also possible
Ps: His book is currently available in Dutch and will soon be available in other languages.
Yes, definitely. Founder, Bas Warmerdam, works with several organizations and speakeragencies, for which Bas takes care of several of their events.
Is this something that is also interesting for your organization? Then schedule an introductory meeting to further explore this together. This can be done via the button in the menu.
Yes, in 99% of his Keynotes & Workshops.
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(available from 8 am to 8 pm Central European Time).
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Schedule a meeting and let's explore together how we can best organize this for your team or organization.
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