Doing better
by improving the accessibility, affordability, and sustainability of life science and healthcare.
Our mission
We believe organisations in healthcare and life sciences can do better. Together, we can improve the accessibility, affordability and sustainability of healthcare. By breaking boundaries, both within and between organisations. Impact Stewards® is here to stimulate and support this change.
How do we help your organisation?
We cover the entire healthcare system: from launching groundbreaking medical innovations to securing effective patient outcomes. We bring unique sector knowledge, proven approaches and transformation know-how to the table.
What Impact Stewards does
We are with you every step of the way, turning vision into reality.
Realise your strategy
We help you develop an ambitious vision, explore strategic scenarios, and create actionable roadmaps that deliver tangible, sustainable impact.
Transform your organisation
We guide your organisation through change, ensuring your people engaged and equipped to develop new mindsets and behaviours. Making change a reality.
Improve your performance
We foster high-performing organisations with motivated and skilled individuals. Ensuring teams are supported by streamlined processes, a robust organisational structure, and strong governance.
Engage your ecosystems
We help to build strategic ecosystems. By connecting parties from across the healthcare value chain and building trusted relationships between parties - nurturing long-term goals.
Impact Stewards cases
Sharing the work of Impact Stewards, interviews, and business updates.
How to set up an order-to-cash process for medical products
How to set up a new commercial organisation, ready for launch
How to use digital technologies to keep regional healthcare accessible
Meet our stewards
Our stewards are seasoned consultants with ‘street credibility’ in life sciences and healthcare. We’re servant leaders who stimulate co-creation and form partnerships. Working side by side with our clients.
Taking responsibility, together.
Impact
Together you go faster. Driven by improving patient experience through innovation and to make a positive, sustainable impact on all people, communities and the planet.
Expertise
Extensive international leadership experience in life sciences. Worked in various leadership roles for globally operating companies, in marketing, business development, and sales.
Impact
Successful sustainable transitions require a partnership based on shared principles and values, a shared vision and shared goals!
Expertise
Danielle IJkema
Impact
Supply chain management is strategically important. Done well, it has a huge impact on patients, society, and the planet. Its purpose is clear: keeping life-saving treatments available to those who need them most. For this, we must collaborate with business partners, suppliers, and clients to build resilience and create sustainable value.
Expertise
Senior executive in supply chain management with over two decades of experience managing complex global supply chains in the life science sector. Danielle has a proven track record in driving transformation.
Impact
"Ultimately, it is about ensuring patients always have the necessary medication and medical devices at their disposal at the lowest possible cost and environmental impact. Let's go on The Green Path."
Expertise
A logistics and supply chain expert with 25+ years of experience. Tim has worked on numerous patient-centric supply chain projects in healthcare and life sciences. He is the initiator and leader of the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative.
Impact
"I want to take responsibility and strive for sustainable, affordable, and pragmatic solutions. Let’s do this collectively, both pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers. We're stronger when we work together."
Expertise
Highly experienced interim manager. Ellen has 25 years of experience in the life science and health sector. She has worked as an interim manager and guided many commercial projects and changes.
Impact
"Empowering healthcare providers to collaborate effectively and share best practices leads to higher-quality care, better patient experiences and lower costs."
Expertise
Senior program and project manager in the Pharma and Healthcare sector. Subject matter expert in helping care providers set up collaboration and strategic partnerships to improve patient care.
Impact
"Improving the outcome of care by making innovative medical solutions everyday practice. Creating the best results for patients, healthcare teams and companies."
Expertise
Highly experienced medical innovation and project manager. Naomi has 20+ years of experience in pharma, med-tech, and healthcare. She leads the implementation of high-impact improvements in healthcare.
Impact
Making a positive impact on people’s lives, whether it's my clients, their clients or patients, or my colleagues. Helping people work together and achieve positive change, especially in complex situations, puts a smile on my face.
Expertise
Broad management consultancy experience in many sectors specialises in healthcare. Experienced in strategy transformation: development, implementation, and strategic project and programme management.
Impact
In a world in which change is inevitable, our challenge is how to cope with change on personal, organisational and systemic levels. How do we keep Healthcare accessible and affordable, while we also expect care and treatments to evolve, in order to extend our lives and improve our quality of life?
Expertise
Highly experienced leadership and change manager. with 25 years of experience in improving operational performance and successfully guiding transformations.
Impact
"We must think and do differently in healthcare. Addressing the impact for all stakeholders, from strategy development to execution, is key to the sustainable effects we aim for."
Expertise
A highly experienced leader in the life sciences industry. Edwin has 30+ years of experience as a business and marketing leader, in national and international roles. He is a true pioneer.
Impact
"Enabling a true customer-centric omnichannel ecosystem. Building bridges and connecting organisations, that's what motivates me."
Expertise
Deep experience and expertise in omnichannel customer engagement, digital communication channels and digital transformation. Frank is an enthusiastic leader, team player and pioneer.
Impact
"In partnership with our clients, we develop insights and value propositions. Taking a holistic approach to healthcare."
Expertise
Rich experience in (digital) marketing effectiveness and efficiency projects including omnichannel as well as running various customer-centric and organisational transformations within pharma and healthcare.
Impact
My purpose is to add value in healthcare by supporting healthcare providers in their health contracting activities; a well-designed contract between provider and payer will lead to more efficiency in care, better accessibility for the patient, better quality in outcome, monitoring of healthcare spendings and sustainable results for healthcare providers.
Expertise
More than twenty years of commercial experience in a wide range of health care segments, focusing on healthcare contracting. With diplomacy, analytical skills, humour and a tenacious mindset I strive for the best results.
Organisations our stewards helped to do better
Impact Stewards updates
Sharing our insights, interviews, and business updates.
Healthcare innovation leader Kors van Wyngaarden joins Impact Stewards
Healthcare Transformation: Why it matters and how we help leaders drive it
Martijn Nap joins Impact Stewards to connect life sciences, data and societal impact
What can we do for you?
Patrick Filius
Chief Impact Officer
+31(0) 6 57 73 37 02
info@impactstewards.com