Sharpen your business strategy with ideaDJ Ramon Vullings, an enthusiastic cross-industry expert and passionate, interactive speaker.

Ramon speaks about creativity & innovation in the digital age for organisations such as NASA, Rabobank, Pfizer, Nike, Volkswagen, TEDx, Siemens, PwC, FloraHolland & Audi. His speeches can be adapted to the specific needs of your event and target group.

Our society faces a number of major challenges. Many of them are complex, also called 'wicked problems'. To solve them, cross-border cooperation between silos and sectors is crucial. Designing these collaborations and finding new solutions needs a new discipline: cross-industry innovation. Ramon Vullings is a cross-industry expert. He engages with clients via his research, projects and keynote presentations.

Ramon helps business leaders, new business development and HR managers with strategy, tools & skills to look beyond the borders of their domain to transform their business in a smarter way.

Ramon's speaking style is charismatic, passionate and interactive. As one of the most engaging speakers in the world, Ramon grabs any audience with a combination of research, visuals, humor, stories and practical business tools.

He serves as a senior advisor for NASA's Cross-industry innovation Summits and Ramon advises on both the content and flow of many cross-over conferences.

Described by clients as an ‘electrifying and passionate speaker’.

Read on for Ramon's bio.

Ramon Vullings is an engaging international keynote speaker, author of 4 management books on business creativity and cross-sector innovation, Ramon is also a cross-industry expert consultant & ideaDJ wowing audiences around the globe.

Ramon speaks about bringing the outside world in and why remixing of ideas cross-sector is a smart strategy.

Ramon helps business leaders with strategies, tools & skills to look beyond the borders of their domain to transform their business in a smarter way.

Ramon Vullings studied 'industrial engineering & sociology', already a cool combination.

CORPORATE LIFE

Ramon started his professional career as consultant at Coopers & Lybrand helping companies to improve their business process redesign. After the merger with PriceWaterhouse Ramon soon became the Global CRM Operations Manager for the PwC Consulting Customer Relationship Management practice (3500+ consultants) working from Paris, what an adventure!

In the year leading up to the IBM acquisition of PwC Consulting, Ramon was part of the transition team for PwC Consulting. At IBM Business Consulting Services Ramon became the EMEA CRM Learning & Knowledge Lead, a beautiful role in which he got skilled in advanced, large group & on-line didactics.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In 2004 Ramon decided to start his own company Twinkeling BV focussing on business creativity. He co-founded the innovation & change company new shoes today and in 2012 the innovation network company 21 Lobsterstreet.

Based on all this experience, Ramon has since grown into his role as keynote speaker, author and ideaDJ: helping business leaders, new business development and HR managers with strategy, tools & skills to look beyond the borders of their domain to transform their business in a smarter way, infusing people with tangible ideas, spot-on inspiration and actionable advice.

Ramon has written 4 management books on business creativity and cross-industry innovation. He is also chairman of the (not for profit) European Association for Creativity & Innovation (EACI).

Besides his work as international speaker and innovation consultant, Ramon is an executive professor at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven, at the Antwerp Management School and at the IE Executive Education from IE Business School in Madrid.

STYLE

What makes Ramon so unique is not only the content he shares, but also the way he presents it. Ramon is a born entertainer, mixing humor with personal anecdotes and insights in the way business & life intertwine.

PERSONAL LIFE

Ramon is Dutch, living in beautiful Antwerp (Belgium) together with his wife and their two sons. Ramon loves to travel, in the period 2009-2010 together with his wife Linda, he traveled the old silk road for 1.5 year (all over land, not using airplanes!) to learn how people in other cultures deal with similar situations differently. He still cherishes this wonderful journey and uses many anecdotes of this time in his keynotes!