About Systemic Rebels
Systemic Rebels is a boutique consulting company specialising in business design and organisational design through the lens of systemic principles.
We believe organisations are living systems, not machines. Growth, innovation, and resilience don’t just come from strategy and structure—they come from aligning the visible with the invisible: purpose with practice, teams with leadership, and short-term performance with long-term sustainability.
We work with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to uncover hidden dynamics, shift limiting patterns, and truly future-ready design organisations. Our approach combines systemic intelligence with practical business design tools, ensuring that insights don’t just stay in the room but lead to real change in the organisation.
With us, you won’t get generic frameworks or one-size-fits-all solutions. You’ll get clarity on what’s blocking flow in your business—and the courage, alignment, and roadmap to move forward.
At the core, our work helps leaders and organisations:
See differently: making the invisible forces in their system visible.
Decide wisely: cutting through complexity to make choices that last.
Grow sustainably: creating organisations that are agile, human-centred, and future-ready.
We don’t just prepare you for the next quarter. We help you build the foundation for the next decade.
Our Approach
At Systemic Rebels, we believe real growth doesn’t come from more strategies, KPIs, or quick fixes. It comes from seeing—and shifting—the hidden forces that quietly shape how your business works.
Most organizations focus on the visible layer: structures, processes, targets. We work on both the visible and the invisible—the loyalties, unspoken rules, and systemic blocks that determine whether change sticks or stalls.
We don’t arrive with pre-packaged answers. We show up with a systemic lens, sharp questions, and the courage to name what others overlook. Together, we uncover what’s blocking flow and create the conditions for your people, teams, and business to thrive.
Every engagement is grounded in four principles:
Co-Creation — We design the work with you, not for you.
Clarity — We cut through complexity and make the invisible visible.
Connection — We center the people, relationships, and energies that drive your business.
Catalyst — We turn deep insights into practical steps that shift your system forward.
You don’t need another stack of slides. You need clarity, alignment, and the courage to face what’s hidden.
That’s where growth begins.
About Wouter Gheysen
Founder and Systemic Business Designer
CONSCIOUS AND FORWARD-THINKING INSIGHTS
“My distinct value is my ability to connect the dots, and design reimagined solutions to complex problems thanks to my conscious observation, direct questions and combination of analytical and liminal thinking. As a free spirit, I deliver this by embracing opportunities and changing the game by valuing creativity and cutting-edge insights. In that way, we can co-create thriving businesses, exceed expectations through high standards and push for success in results and impact.”
Wouter Gheysen, founder of Out of Our Minds and Systemic Rebels, holds an engineering master's and an economics master's. Over the last twenty years, he has worked as a consultant for bigger and smaller consulting companies, supporting companies in implementing their strategy.
Over the last ten years, his interest in designing and building thriving companies has become his main focus. He has taken courses in the agile way of working, business design, organizational psychology, systemic thinking, the reinvention method, and neglected organisations.
Systemic Rebels is where all his knowledge and experience come together.
Wouter works as a trainer, consultant, and systemic facilitator to support leaders, their management teams, and organisations in building a future-ready, thriving, and sustainable business.