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I get companies ready for the AI age.

Barbara Arnst - Independent Executive Advisor

What I Do

How I work with clients

I work with CEOs and leadership teams whose strategy is sound, but whose company isn't built to deliver it. There are three ways in:

  • The diagnostic. A structured read on whether your operating model is ready for the AI age, and on what has to change first.
  • Advisory. Sparring partner to you and your leadership team, for as long as the change runs.
  • Embedded operating mandate. I join your executive team, redesign how the company works, and see the change through.
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Barbara Arnst
THE SHORT VERSION

Design it. 
Then make it work.

Strategist at Bain. Investor at Gimv. COO at Groupon. Most recently company-wide operating model transformation at Telenet.

Almost no one selling operating-model work has sat in all four seats — which is why I can both design a new way of operating and run the hard part of making the change stick.

I do this because systems produce what they are designed to produce, and most companies are running on a design nobody actually chose. Changing that changes what the people inside the company are able to do.

The rest of the time I am in Antwerp, where you will often find me running. Or being walked by a very charming golden retriever.
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