Frank is a moderator and an energetic and engaging chairman and co-creator of forums, seminars, and conferences worldwide.
His personal mantra is: “Let's maximize the human dividend by putting people first and enabling them to reshape AI-driven organizations, encouraging each other to create genuine moments of (shared) value and deliver impact.”
Before starting his own company ZeroSpace Advies in 2003, Frank Lekanne Deprez was a research associate at Tilburg University and held management and functional positions at Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM).
From 1995 to 1997, he was manager of market and product development at Galileo Nederland Ltd. From 1997 to 2003, he was manager at KPMG Knowledge Advisory Services.
From 2002 to 2010, Frank was part-time professor “Knowledge Organizations and Knowledge Management” at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. From 2006 to 2023, he was part-time assistant professor “People Management & Hybrid Work Collaboration Organizations” at Nyenrode Business University.
Frank Lekanne Deprez retired in 2023.
Frank Lekanne Deprez is co-author of Value-Based Knowledge Management (1998); The Knowledge Dividend (2000); Zero Space. Moving Beyond Organizational Limits (2002); Towards a Spatial Theory of Organizations (PhD, 2016); and Shaping Hybrid Collaborating Organizations (2023).
His publications have been translated into German, Spanish, Korean, Serbian, Japanese, and Chinese (complex and simplified).
For an overview of publications, please visit: Overview of publications and Nyenrode Business University list of publications (2019)