A Frank Conversation - Private Dining Amsterdam

Join us for an invitation-only evening of unfiltered strategic dialogue at the Royal Industrieele Groote Club in Amsterdam, October 29th.

In an era where executive gatherings often default to rehearsed narratives and surface-level exchanges, we're creating something fundamentally different. Four C-suite leaders will engage in frank, substantive conversations under Chatham House Rules.

No corporate scripts, no standard positioning, just the unvarnished insights that drive real value creation.

The Format: Deliberate by Design

Each course of our private dinner corresponds to a critical business challenge nominated by our executive guests. From reception through dessert, we'll dissect four strategic imperatives shaping today's leadership agenda. Participants receive detailed input papers before the evening, ensuring conversations begin at expert level and accelerate from there.

Your Hosts

Martijn Sjoorda helps teams and organisations tackle tough problems and improve the quality of their conversations, because when those succeed, results follow. Martijn was trained by Peter Senge, Bill Isaacs, and David Kantor, and became a psychotherapist after learning how personal history shapes business outcomes. David Ogilvy called him “The Original Nosey Parker.” His long partnership with Professor Amy Edmondson enables him to help organisations make psychological safety, productive conflict, and learning from failure the norm.

Michael Illert has nearly 20 years of experience in recruitment and executive search across Europe, the UK, and the US, I help businesses define the exact profile of leaders who truly generate value. Through my targeted search approach, I identify and secure high-impact executives who accelerate value creation and position your company for sustainable success.

The Promise

This isn't another networking dinner. It's a carefully curated collision of perspectives designed to leave you intellectually restless. Our measure of success? You'll depart with provocative ideas that refuse to settle, questions and insights that demand examination long after the evening ends. The best strategic conversations don't conclude; they evolve in the minds of participants who can't stop thinking about what was said, challenged, and revealed.

Limited to select participants who value depth over breadth, candor over courtesy, and the discomfort of unresolved tension over the comfort of easy answers.