Our consultants
Working together for a better future
We work together every day to improve people and the planet. Our promise is that we are truly committed to creating impact with our clients. Empact works with a flexible workforce. Different consultants may be involved depending on the assignment.
Anne Rademaker
Is a management consultant who supports organisations in concretizing and actually realizing sustainable business operations. He is eager to help develop an ESG strategy and translate it into concrete programs, projects and other activities. In the role of director and manager, he has gained decades of knowledge and experience in developing policy, realizing strategic changes, motivating teams and dealing with resistance. Derk Jan has broad interests, is connecting and enterprising. His personal mission is to really contribute to the transition to a sustainable society. So really Engaging with impact: Empact.
Derk Jan Berends
Derk Jan Berends is a management consultant who helps organizations define and implement sustainable business practices. He specializes in developing ESG strategies and translating them into concrete programs, projects, and other activities. With decades of experience as an executive and manager, he has gained extensive knowledge in policy development, driving strategic change, motivating teams, and managing resistance. Derk Jan is broad-minded, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. His personal mission is to truly contribute to the transition towards a sustainable society—making real impact (Empact).
Frank Tiggelman
Is a technical consultant whose strength it is, to convert a concept into a functional design and connect this with the technical realisation. Frank has a focus on the business need for data analysis, security, and information analysis. Frank is the initiator and co-owner of various development agencies and is responsible for the development of several SAAS tools. Besides making a development and publication plans, Frank has a lot of experience in managing developers and communicating with IT staff.
Helma Vloet
Is a Certified Accountant and has completed the Master’s degree in Management, Culture and Change. She has worked at two big four offices and has worked for over 20 years as an independent interim professional in the field of consolidation, reporting and consultancy. She has carried out assignments in both the private (listed and non-listed companies) and public sectors. Her expertise lies in the field of reporting and improvement and change processes. Helma takes the stakeholders of these improvement and change processes with her, so that the best result is achieved. Based on her accountancy experience and ESG knowledge, she can support organizations in the implementation of the sustainability report.
Jeroen Scheepmaker
Has over ten years experience in Scope 3 accounting & strategies as well as Science-Based Targets (SBT). Before working as independent consultant, Jeroen worked as a director at Guidehouse, where a managed a team of 10 people in Europe supporting international companies and their supply chain partners on sustainability related manners. He aims to make businesses more sustainable by showing besides the environmental impacts of products & operations, also the benefits of green business opportunities.
Martin de Jong
Has worked as a CSR manager and sustainability professional, since 2009. He started his career in marketing and sales. Impact is Martin’s drive. Most of the work Martin performs is strategic. He is responsible for business development, consulting and deployment of the flexible layer of people around Empact. Want to know more?
Nienke Schütte
Is a CSR professional for 1 1/2 decades. After a career at Accenture, she started as an independent management consultant in 2013 where she worked for the first time with Martin at Vodafone. Current projects are, among others, RVO International Programs. Nienke is a real impact manager, experienced partnership manager and thrilled about social innovations.
Nynke Visser
Has worked for more than 15 years as a sustainable change agent in the financial sector and beyond. Nynke is also a transition coach specialising in change processes. With her approach, she brings people together, creates sustainable dreams and ambitions that are broken down into bite-sized chunks and then realised in an iterative way. Thereby, a multidisciplinary collaboration inside and outside the value chain is at the centre of her approach.
Roy de Clerck
Is an analyst and content specialist. He studied philosophy and translates research, knowledge and policy for us into useful insights for our customers. Roy is responsible for Empact’s articles and blogs. As a child, he was fascinated by the idea of a perpetuum mobile and therefore enjoys writing about sustainability, the energy transition and creating impact.
Ruben Kamerling
As a lawyer, Ruben helps organizations with the correct interpretation of ESG laws and regulations, to enable them to do more than that just meeting the mimimal standards. Ruben uses more than ten years of legal work experience, gained in the legal profession, at the national Dutch government and Deloitte. He is always looking for ways to gain legal skills and experience to make a positive impact for society and the planet. His customers and colleagues appreciate his adaptability, solution-orientedness and relationship-orientedness.
Thessa Bos
Is a consultant for sustainability, diversity and inclusion. She has 20 years of work experience as a journalist, social entrepreneur, diplomat and policymaker. Thessa gained a large part of her work experience abroad, including in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs service. In the Netherlands, she has worked for the national government, also as coordinator of diversity & inclusion for the ministries of EZK & LNV. In 2022, she transitioned to a freelance life as an advisor, coach, facilitator and trainer. Thessa is a systems thinker curious about people and how we relate to each other, ourselves and the planet.
Leaders network
Empact is proud to be part of the Leaders Network of MVO Nederland, where we share our knowledge and inspire others to embrace sustainable business practices, through which we strive together for a better world.
