Bjièn /bjɛ̃/ is an independent consultancy founded in 2021 in one of Belgium’s thriving tech scenes: Ghent.
Our mission
Enabling people and teams to grow so that together we can advance organisations to thrive sustainably and people-first.
Team
Daphné has years of experience as a CMO, managing director, marketer, and product manager and has been a startup founder herself at Tengu. With these insights, she decided it was time to help other founders, leaders, and teams face their challenges and shine. She’s also on a mission to tear down development and business silos and end the polarisation between them.
She’s passionate about leadership, smarketing, agile, lean, product management and determining the best ways to scale your company. Her fundamental values are honesty, inclusion, equality, and agility.
According to others, Daphné is brave, creative, supportive, driven, solid in her values, flexible, empathetic, persistent and open to other people’s ideas and opinions. She has an open mindset and is a good planner, coach, and leader.
Starting as an Open Source developer in the early 2000s, Dietrich has worn many hats in the software industry. Before founding Bjièn, he worked as a software engineer, development team lead, project manager, technical and business analyst, and ScrumMaster in companies building SaaS solutions and tailor-made web applications for SMEs, manufacturing, finance, retail, and more.
With a bag full of knowledge and experience, he now works as a consultant and advisor, helping tech companies levelling up the sustainability and focus of their product and engineering teams.
Dietrich is passionate about agile and lean approaches in business and software development. His fundamental values are transparency, honesty, equality and inclusion.
The power of neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is part of our DNA: both of us have ADHD which enables us to seek and find challenges in your complex problems and to come up with creative, out-of-the-box solutions.
Being neurodivergent also puts us in the ideal situation to help you improve on diversity & inclusion within your company.
Check out our keynote “ADHDeveloper”
Partners
Strengthening each other where necessary, we maintain partnerships with a number of other companies and consultants. Together we provide leadership training, agile & lean workshops, brand management, and other auxiliary services and consultancy.
By sharing the same core values, an efficient and high-trust cooperation is guaranteed.
Events
We love hosting community events, stimulating open knowledge sharing with like-minded people and organisations.
Bjièn is part of the founding and organising crew of Breaking the Silos as well as DataOps Ghent Meetup.