Daan van Rossum

Lead with AI | NYT, HBR, Economist, CNBC, Insider, FastCo featured Founder and CEO | LinkedIn Top Voice | AI Training and Implementation

Netherlands

About

I grew up fascinated by innovation, work, people, and all the ways they interact. That curiosity led me from digital strategy at Ogilvy to launching a magazine about happiness in a language I don't understand, running a network of coworking spaces, founding FlexOS, and eventually, Lead with AI. We help leaders and organizations deploy AI toward meaningful impact through boot camps, ongoing education, community, and implementation. Visit https://www.leadwithai.co/ for more information. The mission, now spanning nearly a decade, remains the same: to help deliver a happier future of work. I spend time not “working” with my wife and son.

Experience

  • Founder and CEO at Lead with AI
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    75% of employees use Generative AI, but 60% of leaders say their organization lacks a plan and vision to implement AI. We get leaders, teams, and organizations up to speed, fast. In our Executive Boot Camp, we get you to be the AI expert your organization needs by implementing your first 5 agents: https://www.leadwithai.co/course/executive-boot-camp Our executive community counts over 400 global leaders at companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, McKinsey, EY, LEGO, Uber, Atlassian, and more, along with hundreds of founders, business owners, and consultants who meet bi-weekly to continue learning: https://www.leadwithai.co/pro Our newsletter is the only executive briefing on AI with case studies, platform updates, and must-read news, with over 32,000 subscribers: https://www.leadwithai.co/newsletter Want to work with us? Email me at [email protected]

  • Founder & CEO at FlexOS
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    FlexOS is a new creator-led media and education platform for a Happier Future of Work. With newsletters, research, interviews, courses, and curated communities, we help leaders stay ahead in a fast-changing world of work. Focus areas include AI, employee experience, workplace, culture, and HR. FlexOS was featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and The Economist, and chosen as the Top 20 Hottest Startups of 2024.

  • Dreamplex (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Board Member
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Chief Executive Officer
      Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Great offices enable companies to successfully attract, engage, and retain the best talent. The workplace of the future is a space people love to go to. To meet, collaborate, socialize, focus, and grow. This takes a combination of design, hospitality, employee experience, and a flexible approach to lease terms. We support companies who care about their people by letting them outsource their entire workplace needs to us. With Dreamplex, they can upgrade their workplace experience without having to invest in additional team members, knowledge, resources, or budget. From architectural design to events that are purposefully created to foster meaningful connections and from training & development to day-to-day hospitality, we are here to create a Better Day at Work for thousands of employees in Vietnam. In this, we lean heavily on a great body of research in positive, organizational and behavior psychology, together with what we know about the new generation of Millennials and Gen Z that are filling up the workplace. Throughout it all, we keep going back to whom we do this for: people. Not users, not workers. But real human beings. And our mission is to positively impact them personally and professionally by delivering a Better Day at Work, the place where we spend up to 100,000 hours of our lives.

    • Chief Experience Officer
      May 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Writer and Host at Future Work
    Aug 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Future Work was my weekly newsletter featuring the best thinking on the future of work. Every week for over three years, I reported on key trends and case studies in hybrid work, company culture, remote work, and technology. Future Work is now the AI and Organizations-focused Friday edition of Lead with AI. Subscribe at https://www.leadwithai.co/all-articles.

  • Founder at Bright - Journey to Happiness
    Oct 2016 - Sep 2019 · 3 yrs

    Bright believes that anyone can live happier. That's why we built a platform to inspire and enable young Vietnamese to achieve their dream lives. With a printed and online magazine, trainings, books and gifts.