Jan Ubels

Jan Ubels is an independent facilitator, advisor and trainer. Based on multiple decades of experience in Africa, Asia and Europe, he helps to bring clarity and life to challenging processes, topics and situations.

 

Jan facilitates change processes, supports professional development trajectories, and co-creates knowledge products. He is passionate about both global development issues and personal development; a warm person with keen analytical skills, a strong sense of process and mature conceptual and writing abilities.

 

Educated in agriculture and water management, sociology and applied psychology, Jan worked amongst others for Wageningen University, Euroconsult (now Mot MacDonald) and as an independent consultant for SNV and Interpeace-IPAT. He engaged deeply in programs for a range of international clients – with implementation, management, strategy, knowledge management and organisational change roles. His varied experience allows Jan to address situations and processes with deep appreciation of multiple dimensions and dynamics at play.

 

He is one of three co-authors of The Effective Adviser’s Handbook (129 pages, 2023), and was lead-editor of the book ‘Capacity Development in Practice’ (Earthscan, 338 pages, 2010) which focuses on capacity development in multi-actor systems and is still considered a reference in this domain. He has also written on scaling, public-private collaboration and recently especially on applied systems thinking & practice.