IWConsulting.eu helps organisations look beyond visible symptoms to uncover the underlying issues in governance, operating models, decision-making, leadership and collaboration.

We translate insight into strategic choices, workable organisation design and focused transformation.

Through its two complementary practices, IWConsulting.eu combines independent diagnostic rigour and practical transformation experience with a deep understanding of leadership and human dynamics.

Together, the two practices connect organisational reality with leadership reality, because complex organisational challenges rarely sit neatly within one structure, process or team.

Whether the challenge sits in the organisation, its leadership, or somewhere in between, meaningful progress starts with understanding what is really going on and being prepared to address it.

Capabilities

Strategic Organisational Diagnostics

Organisational challenges often present themselves as project delays, unclear ownership, ineffective collaboration or stalled transformation.
These visible issues are rarely the whole story.

IWConsulting.eu draws on extensive experience in internal audit and assurance to look beyond individual symptoms and identify the patterns and underlying causes that affect organisational performance. What appears to be a process issue, a leadership problem or a lack of accountability may in practice reflect deeper tensions in governance, decision-making, organisational design, interfaces or ways of working.

The diagnostic approach combines structured analysis with deep curiosity, careful inquiry and the ability to challenge assumptions. It looks across organisational boundaries, connects seemingly unrelated issues and explores where formal structures and day-to-day reality diverge. The aim is to identify the red thread behind recurring friction, stagnation, imbalance or systems that no longer work as intended.

The result is a grounded understanding of what is really driving the issue, which choices matter most and where intervention is likely to have the greatest effect. This gives leaders a stronger basis for addressing root causes rather than repeatedly responding to symptoms.

Governance, Operating Models & Organisation Design

Strategy only becomes executable when governance provides clear accountabilities and decision rights,
and organisational structures and interfaces support how the organisation needs to operate.

IWConsulting.eu helps leaders translate strategic ambition into organisational arrangements, that work in practice. This includes clarifying mandates, roles and accountabilities; designing decision-making mechanisms; strengthening organisational interfaces; and aligning structures, processes and ways of working.

Particular experience lies in matrix, project and business line organisations, where responsibilities are shared across organisational boundaries and formal structures do not always reflect day-to-day reality. The work often involves examining where ownership becomes blurred, decisions slow down, interfaces create friction or different parts of the organisation optimise for different outcomes.

The aim is therefore not to create a theoretically perfect model, but one that is coherent, workable and fit for the organisation and its purpose. This provides leaders with clearer accountability, more effective decision-making and a stronger organisational foundation for execution.

Strategic Transformation

Successful transformation starts with alignment between strategic intent, organisational design, governance and leadership,
creating a clear foundation for implementation.

IWConsulting.eu works with leaders at the front end of transformation, where the challenge is still being shaped and important decisions about direction, organisation and governance need to be made. This includes framing the transformation challenge, testing strategic and organisational choices and creating coherence across the transformation agenda.

The focus is on translating strategic ambition into clear design principles, decision-making structures and organisational direction. It connects executive decision-making with the realities of the organisation, including leadership alignment, organisational readiness, dependencies and the implications of proposed choices.

By bringing these elements together early, leaders gain greater clarity about what the transformation requires, how the different elements depend on one another, and what needs to be in place before moving into implementation.

Transformation Governance, Delivery & Assurance

Complex transformation requires clear direction and disciplined coordination to maintain coherence across delivery
and enable timely, well-informed decisions.

Once implementation is underway, multiple initiatives, functions and perspectives begin to move at different speeds. Keeping them connected requires clear priorities, effective governance, well-managed interdependencies and timely executive intervention.

IWConsulting.eu helps establish the structures and disciplines needed to manage transformation delivery with clarity and control. This includes creating coherence across the portfolio, strengthening decision-making, managing critical dependencies, assessing organisational readiness, and integrating risk and assurance into the way the transformation is managed.

The aim is to give leaders the visibility and confidence to make informed decisions, intervene where necessary and keep the transformation focused on its intended outcomes.

Executive Leadership & Team Effectiveness

The effectiveness of an organisation depends as much on how its leaders work together as on how it is designed.

Executive teams shape how strategy, governance and organisational design translate into organisational performance. Their effectiveness depends not only on individual capability, but on the quality of collective decision-making, ownership, challenge and collaboration across the team.

IWConsulting.eu works with senior leadership teams where leadership dynamics are affecting organisational performance, or where changes in strategy, structure or mandate require the team to operate differently. Support may include facilitated strategic dialogue, team effectiveness work, leadership coaching and focused interventions around decision-making, accountability, conflict or collaboration.

The focus is not leadership development as a standalone programme. It is helping leaders work more effectively with the real strategic and organisational tensions they face, strengthen collective leadership and translate intent into more coherent action.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching creates the space to see more clearly, challenge established patterns and make deliberate choices.

Stepping away from the immediacy of leadership creates room to look more closely at what is really happening, in the situation, in relationships and in the choices available.

My approach is direct, relational and reflective. I combine a strong understanding of organisational dynamics with thoughtful inquiry and constructive challenge, giving leaders the space to think out loud, notice patterns, question assumptions and explore what they may not yet be seeing.

The aim is not to provide ready-made answers, but to help leaders reach greater clarity and make deliberate choices about how they lead, work with others and shape what comes next.

My coaching practice is grounded in an MSc in Executive Coaching and EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation.

Values & Inclusive Organisations

Difference is a strength that broadens how organisations think, decide and grow.

Diversity and inclusion are not peripheral themes in my work. They are rooted in a deeper belief in liberté, égalité, fraternité: that people should have the freedom to be who they are, have an equal voice and belong without first having to conform.

Difference also strengthens organisations. Different experiences, perspectives and ways of thinking challenge assumptions, expose blind spots and open up possibilities that groups of like-minded people may miss. My experience includes leading a disability inclusion network and advocating for Universal Design, but the principle extends far beyond any single dimension of diversity.

This perspective influences how IWConsulting.eu and its practices show up. Inclusion is about creating the conditions in which difference is recognised as a strength, creates value and expands what becomes possible.

About


After 22 years in an international corporate environment, I chose to build an independent practice that gave me the freedom to work differently and to use the breadth of experience I had gained to help other organisations and leaders. My name is Iris Walenkamp, Founder and Owner of IWConsulting.eu and its two practices, Moxie Minds Consulting and Grit & Growth Executive Coaching.

Moxie Minds Consulting takes its name from a word that has always resonated with me. Moxie combines courageous spirit and determination with energy, resourcefulness and know-how. It reflects the way I work: willing to step into situations where the answer is not immediately obvious, curious enough to look beneath the surface and pragmatic enough to turn insight into something that works.

My experience in leadership, internal audit, assurance, digitalisation and transformation shaped that approach. It taught me to look beyond individual symptoms, connect seemingly unrelated issues and distinguish formal design from organisational reality.

Grit & Growth reflects another side of the same experience. To me, grit is the resilience and determination to stay engaged when things are difficult. Growth requires curiosity, reflection and a willingness to challenge patterns that no longer serve us. Together, they capture how I approach executive coaching: creating space for leaders to think deeply, understand what is really happening and make choices that are genuinely their own.

Although the two practices work at different levels, they share the same underlying perspective: looking beyond the visible issue, understanding the connections between people and systems, and creating the conditions for meaningful change.

At the heart of my work is a simple motivation: to make a meaningful difference and leave the world a little better than I found it.





* My academic grounding includes an MSc in People and Organisational Development and an MSc in Executive Coaching, complemented by EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation.

Contact

Is the visible problem the real issue?

If your organisation is facing a complex question in governance, operating model, transformation or leadership,
an independent perspective can help clarify what is really at stake and where to begin.

IWConsulting.eu is based in The Netherlands and works with organisations and leaders in both local and international settings

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