Speaker & moderator

Ynzo van Zanten

Ynzo van Zanten is a speaker and expert in sustainable entrepreneurship, meaningful marketing, brand experience, and positive workplace cultures. Drawing on his experience at Tony’s Chocolonely and as a co-founder of Innocent Drinks, he inspires audiences to create meaningful change. With humor, energy, and practical insights, he motivates people and organizations to make a positive impact. Ynzo is available as a speaker, moderator, panel member, and presenter.

Rate indication: € 3,500 to € 4,999
Available for booking as: Speaker
Languages: Dutch English

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About Ynzo van Zanten

Ynzo van Zanten is an enthusiast who sees new ideas everywhere. He started at Innocent Drinks as the Benelux country manager when it was still a small company. At Innocent Drinks, he learned a lot about meaningful marketing. After his success at Innocent Drinks, Ynzo joined Tony’s Chocolonely as Head of People & Culture and Chief Evangelist. There, he saw many enormous opportunities to make a positive difference with his remarkable ideas that most organizations would never implement, such as giving a thousand euros to every employee expecting children and two thousand to every couple expecting a child, or allowing every employee leaving Tony’s Chocolonely to take as much chocolate as they can carry.

Purpose

Ynzo gave Tony’s Chocolonely more meaning and passed that meaning on to the customers, such as the unevenly divided chocolate bars that symbolize inequality in the cocoa industry. Many companies want a 'purpose', but how do you do that the right way? And how do you convey that 'purpose'? Ynzo inspires you to figure that out and seize the opportunity to give your company a true 'purpose' and make it visible to the customer.

Ynzo as a speaker

Ynzo stimulates the audience with his enthusiasm. You’re completely immersed in his story, as if he’s having a personal conversation with you. The topics he discusses are complex, but by using his personal experiences as examples, they become crystal clear. He knows how to wake the audience up and inspire them to make a positive difference! For Ynzo, nothing and no one is too small for that.

Themes that Ynzo van Zanten focuses on

Sessions

As a successful entrepreneur or manager, you know that sustainability has many facets. Working more sustainably, cleaner, and more socially often comes down to doing small things better. Ynzo van Zanten speaks about economic trends and developments in society. About the sense and nonsense surrounding sustainability. He stimulates the audience with examples from daily practice, and of course from his experience at Tony’s Chocolonely. His energetic way of presenting, or as he puts it, 'business-applicable hustle', encourages you to make your own contribution to positive change, no matter how small or large. Because according to him, no one is too small to make a difference.

Ynzo van Zanten is a successful entrepreneur in the field of sustainable businesses. In addition to speaking about sustainable entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and People Happiness, Ynzo is also available to book as a moderator. Ynzo is an enterprising man with a friendly demeanor. He knows how to connect the day in a smooth and inspiring way.