I’m thrilled to share that the English edition of Tricky Times will be available soon (September 2025)! A book about navigating transformation, uncertainty, and the in-between. Tricky Times explores what it means to lead, live, and stay grounded in such turbulent times. With stories, rituals, reflections and frameworks drawn from global wisdom traditions, deep democracy, and organisational anthropology.
You’re invited: Public Talk in Amsterdam, 3 September
To celebrate the launch, I’m giving a special public talk. This is a rare opportunity. Most of my keynotes are in-company only. Now I invite you to join me, and others, for a powerful evening of insight, connection, and transformation.
September 3rd, BIMHUIS, Amsterdam, 19.30 - 21.30. Keynote talk by Jitske Kramer, followed by a live interview with Dolf Jansen.
Tickets and more info: https://tricky-times.com/events/navigating-tricky-times-leading-through-the-messy-middle-of-change/
This is more than a book launch.
It’s an invitation to deepen the conversation — on change, on leadership, on how we shape the future. We are living through tricky times. Let’s meet them — together. See you there!
Book Trailer
Watch the book trailer to get a glimpse into the energy and urgency behind the book.
I am troubled by the discord in society. Change is needed on so many fronts. Or is happening already.
Happening too fast. Too slow. Unleashing emotions. Opinions. So many opinions that we risk losing sight of the facts.
And questions. Ever more questions. Is the chaos I sense unique, or has it always been this way? What should we do with outdated systems? How do we shape a new story? And who gets to tell it? What’s wrong with the one we have now? Who can we trust, and who not?
I set out to explore the dynamics of big changes. To step outside myself and listen. Between here and there. Fact and fiction. Between left and right. Up and down. Between fear and longing.
I read up on economics. Visited various leaders and officials, Extinction Rebellion, the Marine Corps and shamans in Togo and Holland. Learned from the Ramnami in India. From the Amazigh in Tunisia. Took a disorientation course in England.
It became a profound quest filled with frustration, rage, sadness, humour, surprises and, ultimately, hope. And with new anthropological insights to help us through all kinds of big change.
It is time to look in the mirror. To shake off lies. And dare to break with old patterns.
These are tricky times.
