Fred is the strategist helping to bring Rock, Paper, Scissors to as broad an audience as possible. Having learned the framework from Will nearly ten years ago, and seeing time and again the power it has, he’s now using both his training in psychology and his background in building high-performance teams to show leaders how it can work for their companies.

For over twenty years, Fred has focused on delivering results within hyper-growth, multinational Internet and professional services firms. He developed computer-integrated manufacturing capabilities that revolutionized printing, making small quantities of customized business cards and other products affordable for everyone. Fred has also held a variety of roles in the US and Switzerland, including orchestrating global manufacturing capabilities expansion, leading enterprise business transformation initiatives and global software development teams, implementing organisational design strategy, managing professional services technology practices, and providing general management. He’s been on the advisory board of emerging-markets businesses in China, India, and Japan, and his entrepreneurial experience includes developing two start-up technology services companies in the US. Fred lives with his family in the Greater Boston area, US.

Will is the brains behind Rock, Paper, Scissors. He initially developed this fast, agile, and effective leadership framework to manage a crisis and has refined it over two decades with

fantastic results. A leader himself, he has a passion for cultivating enduring relationships at work and securing strategic partnerships to achieve outstanding outcomes. This comes as part of creating a cultural environment in which transparency, capability, and individual personalities are key.

Will is senior vice president of global operational excellence and engineering at Firmenich, the world’s largest privately owned fragrance and flavour company, and the chief supply chain officer and executive vice president of Cimpress NV, as well as a member of its management board. Will also served as general manager of Columbus, a major engineering and product development start-up programme at Cimpress. Prior to that he was vice president of operations industrial adhesives EMEA of Henkel, and he served in a number of leadership roles in supply chain, operations and safety, and health and environment in the chemical sector earlier in his career. Will is the founder and managing partner of LeadToSuccess, a bespoke advisory, coaching, and training firm based in The Netherlands. He currently lives in Geneva,

Switzerland, but also spends time in his home town of Maastricht, The Netherlands, where his

family is based.