About Ivo Delfgaauw

Management consultant, marketing director, co-founder, CEO, semi-professional footballer. Over twenty years of coaching senior leaders in the rooms that matter most.

I’ve spent those years close to what matters most to senior leaders — in boardrooms, offsites, and one-to-one conversations at critical moments in someone’s career, their marriage, or their sense of self. Along the way, I’ve worked with executives at Unilever, ING, Rabobank, Renault, PETRONAS, Prudential, Save the Children, Jones Lang LaSalle, La Prairie, L’Oréal, and Gucci, among others — across Europe, Asia and America.

What I’ve learned is this: the leaders who keep growing aren’t just strategically sharp — they’re grounded. They lead with conviction, build honest relationships, and show up fully across every room of their life.

And I’ve seen what becomes possible when the right conditions exist for that.

I remember a moment in a session I was facilitating. A CEO paused, turned to his executive team, and said, “I’m sorry.” The room went completely still. The kind of silence that means something. That single moment changed everything that followed: the conversation, the relationships, the direction of the organisation.

It didn’t happen because of a framework or a model. It happened because the conditions allowed something real to occur.

That’s what I build.
And that’s what The Room is designed to be.

A man with brown hair and a smile wearing a blue button-up shirt standing in front of a plain gray wall.

Career

Newfield Asia / The CoachPartnership — CEO

Route 5 Leadership — Co-Founder & Partner

T-Mobile — Marketing Director

PricewaterhouseCoopers — Management Consultant

Credentials

ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Newfield Certified Ontological Coach

Accredited Enneagram Coach

MSc Economics, University of Amsterdam