Fractional · Minimum 3 months
Part-time / Full-time COO
I join your leadership team as your COO, from 1–2 days per week up to full-time, depending on what your organisation needs.
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FounderOpen to opportunities
Els Meyvaert
Fractional & interim COO · Founder of The COO's Design Table
Founder, The COO's Design Table
Nearly 25 years of experience in digital transformation, data, emerging technologies and EU regulation. C-level roles in corporates, Big Four partner organisations and emerging-tech startups across Europe, the Gulf states and APAC. Guest lecturer since 2017.
- Expertise
- PeopleDataTech stackProcessesLeadershipEU regulation
- Regions
- East Asia and PacificEuropeWest Asia
- Languages
- EnglishDutch
LinkedInAvailable
Services
Interim · 3–24 months
Interim COO
I step in full-time to bridge a gap between COOs, lead a restructuring or integration, or steer a critical scale-up phase, and hand over to a permanent COO.
Certificates
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® · 2014
Trainings by Els
AI at work: smart and responsible use
What AI tools can and cannot do, how to use them in daily work, and what to watch out for in reliability, confidentiality and privacy.
All employeesHalf day
Blockchain & Web3: beyond the hype
How blockchain works, where it adds real value (traceability, certificates, digital identity) and when a regular database is the better choice.
Leadership, innovation, supply chain2 hours · Half day
Culture by design in scaling organisations
What happens to culture when a company grows from 10 to 50 to 200 people, and how to protect what works while letting go of what no longer fits.
Founders, COOs, HR in scale-upsHalf day
Culture in the hybrid workplace
How to build connection, trust and a shared culture when people work from home and the office, and alongside AI tools and agents.
Leadership, HR, team leads2 hours · Half day
Cyber resilience for every employee
Phishing, passwords, fraud and data breaches: practical digital resilience for your whole team.
All employees2 hours
Data & device policies
From ad-hoc habits to clear agreements on devices, accounts and data, with a working session to draft your own policy.
Management, IT, HRHalf day
Data as a shared asset
Which data your internal and external stakeholders need to work together, and how to organise ownership, quality and access across commercial, legal, social and communication domains.
Leadership, operations, data ownersHalf day
Data-driven operations
Choosing the right KPIs, building dashboards people actually use, and making decisions on data instead of gut feeling.
Operations and management teamsHalf day
Defining your company values
How to uncover the values your organisation truly lives by, rather than the ones on the wall, and translate them into a short, recognisable set everyone can stand behind.
Leadership teams, foundersHalf day
Designing the phygital organisation
A hands-on workshop on the four domains of organisational design (people, data, technology stack and system) for companies adopting new technology.
Leadership teams, COOsHalf day · Full day
Everything-as-a-service: who owns what?
SaaS, subscriptions and licences: what they mean for ownership, cost control and vendor lock-in.
Leadership, finance, procurement2 hours
From analogue to digital: a brief history of data
From clay tablets and punch cards to cloud and AI: how data shaped our world, and why understanding that story matters for every organisation today.
Everyone2 hours
From tool sprawl to a coherent tech stack
How to map, rationalise and govern the hardware and software your organisation runs on, so technology supports your operations rather than complicating them.
Operations, IT, financeHalf day
From values to behaviour
Values only matter when they show up in daily decisions. We turn each value into concrete behaviours, working agreements and examples for hiring, feedback and decision-making.
Leadership, HR, team leadsHalf day
Future-proof HR: data, technology and regulation
How HR teams use data and new technologies smartly and safely, in line with the AI Act and the GDPR.
HR teamsFull day
GDPR & the EU Data Act for operations
What the main EU data rules mean in day-to-day operations, from data sharing and contracts to rights and obligations.
Operations, legal, IT2 hours · Half day
Humans and AI agents: designing the hybrid workforce
How to organise roles, responsibilities and processes when part of the work is done by AI agents.
Leadership, HR, operationsHalf day
No-code and AI for operations teams
Build internal tools and automate workflows yourself with no-code and AI platforms, with a practical session in which you build a working prototype.
Operations, HR, finance teamsHalf day
Platforms & the platform economy
Why digital platforms are so powerful, how they make money, and what that means for your business model and your dependencies.
Leadership, strategy teams2 hours
Scaling operations in startups & scale-ups
Processes, working agreements and structures that grow with your company instead of slowing it down, built on lessons from years of fractional COO work.
Founders, COOs, scale-up teamsHalf day
The Core Support Team: three roles around every person
How the manager, the HR lead and the operations lead together form a first line of support for every employee, and how that drives wellbeing and continuous improvement.
Leaders, HR and operationsHalf day
The Digital Product Passport
What the DPP is, which EU rules lie behind it, which sectors come first, and how to prepare your data, suppliers and systems.
Manufacturing, retail, supply chainHalf day
The EU AI Act in practice
Which AI applications fall under which rules, what your organisation must do as a provider or deployer, and how to build AI literacy.
Leadership, HR, legal, IT2 hours · Half day
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