
EXPERTISE
Business Modeling; Culture Creation; Customer Success; Leadership Coaching; Go-To-Market Strategy; Product Development; Operations; Manufacturing; Software Development; Sales Operations; People Ops
BUSINESS MODEL EXPERIENCE
B2B; B2B2C; B2C
EXPERTISE IN THESE COUNTRIES
Germany; Belgium; New Zealand; Netherlands
Irving Leistra
Management Consultant
Christchurch
Irving possesses over two decades of experience as a Dutch entrepreneur and business consultant. He specializes in strategy, business improvement, and facilitation. His approach is rooted in the fusion of methodologies such as Human-Centred Design, Lean, Agile, gamification, and storytelling, specifically tailored to your team and context.
Why are you passionate about working with startup founders?
Working in a start-up is all about energy and directing it towards the things that matter most at that specific point in time. Helping fostering and directing all that energy towards creating the right results required for that specific growth phase, is a challenge I gladly accept. Every single time.
What experience do you have working with startup founders?
I've been supporting and guiding both early stage start-ups, scale-ups and in-company start up teams in New Zealand and The Netherlands. Examples of these are early stage start-ups in gaming & education, tech scale-ups in manufacturing, and in-company start-up teams within a large Energy organisation. I guided them on strategy, product validation product delivery and building the right team with the right capabilities. I also ran a gaming start-up and am the owner of a business consultancy company.