Gerwin Nijeboer
Gerwin Nijeboer MSc works as a entrepreneur through his organization Guts ‘n Values. After an inquiry undertaken during his Executive Master of Management and Organization at TIAS School for Business and Society, he started to specialize in Public Value and the Public Value Scorecard methodology. Instead of getting his PhD he choose to stay practical and cooperate with, among others, prof. dr. Timo Meynhardt. He is currently working on developing Public Value further by creating awareness of the Public Value theory and the Public Value scorecard as well as developing them into a wider and more practical approach, thus combining scientific theories with practical use.
Gerwin is the initionator of this project. Together with prof. dr. Timo Meynhardt and Luís Newton he is one of the founders of the Public Value Fest.
Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt
Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt has been working on linking the concept of planetary boundaries with Public Value research since the publication of the Earth for All-report. What does good (self-)leadership mean in the Anthropocene? What developmental psychological processes can be triggered by experiencing crises? Timo considers his Public Value Scorecard a management tool for evaluating and analyzing an organization’s public value contribution, and in doing so, its role and function in addressing grand challenges.
He holds the Dr. Arend Oetker Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and serves as the Director of the Center for Leadership and Values in Society at the University of St. Gallen. For several years, he worked as a Practice Expert at McKinsey & Company.
Dr. Diane Nijs
Diane Nijs is Associate Professor Imagineering bij BUas Breda University of Applied Sciences. She has a Phd in Designing for Organizational Emergence from the University of Groningen. She regularly works with municipalities and tourism actors on (re-)generative governance for more flourishing futures.
Today’s complex challenges require new thinking and approaches. Instead of centrally solving technical issues by design, we need to create conditions for everyone to become designers in their own contexts. Imagineering, a design approach from the entertainment world, taps into the collective imagination to address challenges generatively. It reframes the conventional dialogues and the conventional routines in an aspirational way. Examples like ‘Occupy Sandy’ and ‘Antwerp, The city belongs to everybody’ but also the generative image of ‘Public Value’ itself, show the potential for massive co-creation. Imagineering fosters self-organizing systems and reframes value creation in a generative, systemic way, helping us rethink capitalism for the future.
Prof. Dr. Eelco van Hout
Eelco van Hout is Academic Director and Associate Professor at TIAS School for Business & Society. His approach to Public Value focuses on the co-creative process that leads to it. In his eyes, public value creation is always a process of co-creation. The interplay of governments, companies, knowledge institutions, social organizations and various other institutions and individuals in society is crucial. His approach can be characterized as ecosystemic. The degree of diversity of the collaborating partners and the embedding in the terroir of the region are per conditions for public value creation. This is also characterized by a subtle interaction between functional-rational arrangements of cooperation and organic connections that are based on social relations, professional affection and energy. Both components form the context in which public value is created.