Femke de Jager

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Expertise

Sustainability, Innovation

Themes

Energy, Travel and Transportation

Director

Femke is a people-centric leader with 30+ years of experience spanning capital-intense and high-tech industries. Her expertise covers building and scaling digital technology and engineering practices, driving go-to-market strategies, and leading complex enterprise transformation programs with full commercial accountability.

Having worked across both consulting and industry roles, Femke brings a unique combination of strategic breadth and operational depth.
As a self-described industry realist, her focus is on partnering with industrial companies to help them achieve their goals in a way that is both sustainable and commercially sound.

My talent

‘Getting things done’, when it comes to complex problem solving on the verge of technology-organisation-innovation and driving sustainable transformation for the capital intense industry and its partner ecosystem.

My education

Twente University; Chemical Engineering in combination with Business Administration.
Erasmus Governance Institute: Program for supervisory board members

People and organizations that inspire me

‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ from Daniel Kahneman blew me away. I am intrigued to better understand how people react, respond, decide and behave.

DSM, my first employer, continuously reinvents itself; from coal mining, to base chemicals, to special chemicals, to biomaterials..it is to me a rolemodel for resilience and evolving business modelling

What I like to do in my spare time

Reading; combination of world literature, non-fiction, biographies and management books. Join me on Goodreads.
Bootcamp to stay fit.
Hiking, enjoying nature by myself or with my spouse, daughters or friends
Visiting the theater/music hall/arthouse cinema.