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Karlijn Deforche

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Enterprise Transformation - Principal at Xebia
📍 Switzerland

Karlijn is an Enterprise Transformation Principal at Xebia, specializing in organizational design and digital transformation. With two decades of experience, she advises leaders on maximizing the business value of their digital initiatives using frameworks like SAFe and Scrum. A recommendation praised her as a "high-energy" community builder.

Her upbringing in a family of entrepreneurs instilled a pragmatic and entrepreneurial mindset, which she applies to her strategic approach. A certified life coach and polyglot fluent in four languages, her international career has taken her to the Philippines, Hong Kong, and now Zurich, enriching her understanding of human motivation.

She is a co-author of several recent articles exploring how Generative AI is set to disrupt the IT services industry.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Enterprise Transformation - Principal
Job Level
Middle
Location
Switzerland
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AI's Role in Leadership
Her recent focus is on guiding leaders through AI hype, emphasizing resilience, emotional intelligence, and adapting to new, AI-driven business models.
Organizational Design
She specializes in helping companies drive change and design for adaptability, a topic she has spoken about at events like Startup Grind.
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Career

Work history

8-2024
Enterprise Transformation - Principal
Xebia
3-2023
Leadership Coach
KdF Coaching
1-2024 - 6-2024
Enterprise Agile Coach
ERNI
10-2020 - 6-2023
Agile Coach & Transformation lead
Accenture
5-2019 - 10-2020
Agile Coach & Transformation lead
United Outcomes (now Typhoon Consulting)
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Education
2007 - 2007
Summerschool 2007
Vlerick Business School
2004 - 2005
Master
University of Westminster
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