Jochem van der Veer

CEO @TheyDo / What if CX leads with business impact?

Netherlands

About

Most enterprise teams (including CX) want to be customer-centric. The intention is genuine. But the processes, incentives, and silos work against it. Every team optimises their slice. Decisions get made without the full picture. And even when teams do the work (the research, the journey mapping, the data analysis and all the stakeholder management) that context rarely reaches the people who need it most. The result: customer experience work that stays inside CX. Insight that doesn’t travel. Decisions made in the dark. That’s the problem I built TheyDo to solve. 150+ enterprise teams now use TheyDo as the context layer they’ve been missing so experience intelligence reaches product, operations, and leadership without a meeting to explain it. Not a better journey management tool. A different layer entirely for the AI-first Enterprise. I write about what I see working (and not working) across large organisations trying to become genuinely experience-led.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO at TheyDo - Journey Management
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

    Journeys are data models, not maps. On a mission to make customer-centricity common at the Enterprise.

  • Founding Member at Institute for Journey Management
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Partner at de.foundation
    Mar 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Responsible for leading the Experience and Service Design practice, helping our clients to be future proof by developing CX frameworks that align with business impact. Recent projects:

  • Service Designer at VDVDesign
    Jul 2011 - Mar 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    Selected work:

  • UX Designer at STRANGELOVE
    Nov 2014 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Selected work: