It is Christiaan’s mission to paint working in a different light. He supports organizations with internal digital communication, services and collaboration. Christiaan aids professionals with making good hybrid working agreements, with themselves and with colleagues, and helps organizations create effective and cohesive digital workplaces. In doing so, he supports organizations to better reach, serve and involve their employees.

Christiaan has contributed to more than 40 intranets and digital workplaces for over 250,000 employees, students and volunteers. Some of them have won international awards, including the 2022 Intranet & Digital Workplace Award and the 2018 Digital Impact Best Intranet Award.

Christiaan is co-founder of TheDayShift, a business consultancy focusing on radical new ways for organizations and professionals to work and collaborate. In 2017 he co-founded boutique digital workplace consultancy Brayton House (sold to digital agency TrueLime in 2020). He has worked with various agencies such as Entopic and Sabel Communicatie, and as an independent consultant, since 1999. Christiaan is co-author of "Digital Employee Experience: Put Employees First Towards a More Human Workplace," the world’s first book on the topic. He also co-authored a book on Top Tasks, and a faction novel titled "Senna versus Schumacher And Other Formula One Rivalries That Never Happened." He regularly presents at intranet and digital workplace conferences in his native Netherlands and abroad.