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Playing to Win in High-Stakes Leadership

Maartje helps leaders do more than survive chaos; she teaches them how to lead through it.  With a background in frontier oil & gas projects, disaster response, scaling start-ups and business triage around the globe, she now advises executive teams on how to operate in volatile, high-stakes environments. Her tools are fit for purpose, her stories are real, and her frameworks work when everything else breaks.

Tools & Tactics to Grow in Today's Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous (VUCA) World

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About

About Maartje

Maartje van Krieken is not your typical keynote speaker, she’s a business emergency responder with the voice of lived experience and the toolkit to match. As the founder of The Chaos Games Consulting and host of The Business Emergency Room podcast, Maartje equips leaders with the frameworks, stories, and tools they need to lead through uncertainty, complexity, and extreme pressure.

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She earned her stripes managing billion-dollar frontier oil & gas projects in the Russian Arctic, the Iraq dessert and the offshore waters of every continent, fixing multi-country collaborations on the verge of collapse, and helping leadership teams in turmoil move from decision paralysis to aligned, confident action. Her experience spans sectors - energy, innovation, nonprofit, tech, manufacturing,  integrated services - and continents, giving her a uniquely global lens on chaos and what it takes to master it.

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Her sessions are electric: rich with war stories, dry humor, and practical tools leaders can apply immediately. Whether she’s breaking down high-stakes decision mechanics or walking a room through a live “business triage,” Maartje’s energy is infectious and her delivery unforgettable. No fluff. No jargon. Just clarity, empowerment, and tactical relevance for a world where steady ground is rare.

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If you're looking for a speaker who can ignite your audience, deliver unforgettable insights, and arm them with tools & tactics that work in the real world, not just on whiteboards, Maartje is your go-to.

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Let the chaos come. You’ll be ready.

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Speaking

 

Maartje will always tailor any talk and delivery style to your audience, event objectives and practical set up in consultation with you. Her talks are packed with memorable real world examples, practical, fit for purpose, relevant and actionable triage, tools & tactics to self deploy today.

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As Maartje prefers to address the chaos and challenges people in the room deal with she will always work with audience examples where possible, interactive, real, today.

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Keynotes Topics:

  • Navigating Business Storms

  • High Stakes Decision Making

  • Get it Done in Complex Collaborations

  • From Startup to Grownup: Ready for What’s Next

  • 25 / 7 / 365 - The power of the extra hour

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Workshops / Facilitation:

  • Chaos Compass™ for Leaders

  • Decision Defibrillator™: Momentum Jumpstart

  • Strategic Chaos Agility Review (SCAR™)

  • Live Triage ‘Business Emergencies’

  • Opportunity Framing: Focus Fast. Execute Faster

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