Meet the Companions & Partners
An ecosystem of senior Companions and strong partners — assembled around your project.
CultureWorks relies on an ecosystem of independent Companions: senior consultants, coaches, facilitators and programme managers across Europe. No juniors, no armies — people who have led, managed and transformed organisations themselves.
We call them Companions because that’s what they are to each other and to us: chosen partners who share the craft, the values and the standards — people we know well, trust deeply, and have worked with over the years.
The faces below are a selection from a broader international network. For every engagement, we compose the team project by project — the right expertise, the right languages, and above all the right fit with your organisation and your challenge.
Alongside the Companions, structural partners extend what we can do — from world-class diagnostics to leadership development science.
Founder & partner
Lionel Frankfort
Advisor and coach in collective power.
Bridging the visible and invisible drivers of organisations; 25+ years as leader, manager, strategy consultant (Arthur D. Little, Kearney) and entrepreneur; INSEAD (Executive Master in Change), MIT, ICF.
Brussels-based, working in French, Dutch and English.
A selection of Companions
Kay Formanek
Amsterdam
En, Nl
Olivier Onghena
Brussels
Nl, Fr, En
…and a wider circle of Companions across Europe — mobilised when their craft is what your project needs.
Partners

Barrett Values Centre
Culture and leadership assessments: quantifying the intangible.

Inner Development Goals
The open-source framework inspiring leaders' inner development.

Kets de Vries Institute
Leadership feedback that reaches the deeper sources of motivation and behaviour.

Yomento
Proprietary digital action platform that turns leadership development into everyday behaviors, stronger teams, and measurable impact.

FamilyWorks
Our sister boutique (familyworks.one), dedicated to business families: supporting families who own and steward wealth — as a whole and as individual members.
Your transformation deserves more than a plan.
Let’s talk about what’s really moving in your organisation — and what isn’t.