Jan van der Kaaij
Co-founder of Finch & Beak
Jan is Co-founder of Finch & Beak, a European consultancy specialized in accelerating sustainability. He teaches at IMD and Moscow School of Management, and is co-author of “Winning Sustainability Strategies: finding purpose, driving innovation and executing change” (2019).
Jan is a creative sustainability expert in strategy development, DJSI and sustainable innovation, with a hands-on approach. He founded his sustainability advisory business in 1997, and over the past two decades he and his team have advised multinationals and family businesses such as McDonald’s, Telenet, DSM, Miguel Torres, Randstad, LANXESS and H.J. Heinz. Jan’s speciality is designing value generating sustainability strategies, and effectively implementing them into the core of the business.