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Our core team, led by Maggie, consists of experienced professionals who have collaborated closely with each other for many years, and who dedicate a significant portion of their time to Sokrates Partners projects.

  • North America
    • Akira Otani
    • Amy McDonald
    • Elspeth Chasser
    • Johan Naudé
    • Laura Daley
    • Martha Debs
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Michelle Malloy
    • Mike Moore
    • Rob Elsey
    • Ushma Pandya
  • Latin America
    • Martin Sommer
  • Europe
    • Alper Tengüz
    • Andrea Ingrisch
    • Arjen Iwema
    • Brian McIlroy
    • Deborah Thomas
    • Jason Rabinowitz
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
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    • Michael Newman
    • Nick McRoberts
    • Paul ter Linden
    • Philippe Leonard
    • Sara Ais
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  • North America
    • Akira Otani
    • Amy McDonald
    • Elspeth Chasser
    • Johan Naudé
    • Laura Daley
    • Martha Debs
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Michelle Malloy
    • Mike Moore
    • Rob Elsey
    • Ushma Pandya
  • Latin America
    • Martin Sommer
  • Europe
    • Alper Tengüz
    • Andrea Ingrisch
    • Arjen Iwema
    • Brian McIlroy
    • Deborah Thomas
    • Jason Rabinowitz
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Martha Debs
    • Michael Newman
    • Nick McRoberts
    • Paul ter Linden
    • Philippe Leonard
    • Sara Ais
  • Asia
    • Akira Otani
    • Bel Popovic
    • Huihan Lie
    • Martha Debs
    • Sankar Krishnan

Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend

Bridging the Atlantic

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Margreet (“Maggie”) van de Griend has been a consultant for most of her adult life and is the founder of Sokrates Partners. She believes she can do her best work as a “professional outsider”: passionately engaged with each client’s success, but not a part of the organization. This allows her the freedom to ask lots of probing questions, even the difficult ones.

Maggie’s core strength, according to one of her recent clients, is “building bridges”. Not just bridges between people and teams, but also between opinions, cultures, different work styles, silos in the organization, and different objectives and interests. Her work spans the range from facilitating strategic planning, to culture change, to designing and leading top leadership team interventions; the guiding theme of her work is always helping clients solve their own problems, rather than solving problems for them.

She moved from the Netherlands to the US almost two decades ago and maintains homes in both countries, with New York her primary residence and Amsterdam secondary. She is very attached to the Dutch culture of pragmatism and direct expression, as well as the typical dry sense of humor of her native land. But she also enjoys living in a culture that encourages ambition and optimism, and is grateful for the the entrepreneurial opportunities she has found in the United States. In her work with global clients, she aspires to bridge the Atlantic, and bring the best of European and American culture together.

When she is not serving her clients, Maggie can likely be found on horseback in some remote mountain range, or working on her manuscript titled, “New Amsterdam”, which is about notable cultural differences between Amsterdam and New York.

Credentials

Languages

  • English
  • Dutch
  • French

Expertise

  • Leadership development
  • Top team effectiveness
  • Sales effectiveness
  • Organization design
  • Culture change and culture mergers

Experience

  • Katzenbach Partners, LLC, Principal 2002-2009
  • McKinsey&Company, Practice Expert 1990-2002
  • Shell Netherlands, Public Affairs Officer 1989-1990
  • University of Amsterdam, Researcher 1986-1989

Education

  • Drs (Masters equivalent) cum laude,
    Latin and Greek linguistics, UvA
  • Multiple accreditations in facilitation and instructional design

Current Projects
Top team effectiveness for a pharma company. Change/transformation for several clients. Faculty at Rice University’s Educational Entrepreneurship Program.

 
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