Get to know us a little better.
Our vision of the future
Creating clarity and shared understanding so that teams and organizations can work together successfully. We believe that progress comes when people are really on the same page. We take care of that — by turning complexity into clear, visual stories that provide direction and connect.
We don't design those stories for teams, but together with teams. Because when you are part of the solution, you really get moving.
We make our approach and products:
Together: because engagement starts with participating.
Designing: because solutions are not ready to go, but grow in steps.
Visually: because images land faster and stick better than words ever can.
Narrative: because people remember stories, not bullet points.
This is how we draw the route to better cooperation — clear, people-oriented and goal-oriented.
Storylines is geen groot bureau. Het is een verband van zelfstandige professionals die elkaar vinden op het snijvlak van faciliteren, visueel denken en organisatieontwikkeling. Samen brengen we precies de expertise mee die een vraagstuk nodig heeft, niet meer, niet minder.
The network
Robert Oude Nijhuis
De term Imagineer is groot gemaakt door Walt Disney, een samenvoeging van imagination en engineering. Creativiteit én logica. Verbeelding én structuur. Als ik één term zou mogen kiezen om te beschrijven wat ik doe, is het deze.
Ik help teams en organisaties om helderheid te vinden in complexiteit. Niet door kant-en-klare antwoorden te leveren, maar door de juiste vragen te stellen, samen te tekenen en stap voor stap het verhaal boven water te halen dat er al was, maar nog niet zichtbaar was.
Het resultaat is altijd een visueel verhaal: iets tastbaars waar iedereen zich in herkent en op terug kan vallen. Een ankerpunt voor samenwerking, richting en verbinding.
Rob Jansen
Fresh perspective on complex issues
Rob is a facilitator and change expert with a keen eye for undercurrents, patterns and potential. He helps teams identify their ambitions and translate them into concrete cooperation.
From Open View, Rob works on social and organizational issues that require movement, but the route is not yet clear. He brings structure to chaos, lightness to the process and works from equality, trust and transparency.
In collaboration with Storylines, Rob contributes to trajectories in which visualizations help to slow down, deepen and accelerate — and in which there is space to give meaning together.
Jorn Ouborg
Jorn is an entrepreneurial visual thinker with a background in Industrial Design Engineering. Driven by a lifelong passion for drawing, he combines analytical insight with creative ability and uses design thinking to translate every design problem into a clear, visual solution. Whether it's visualizing complex strategies, making product ideas concrete, or reinforcing a brand's visual identity, Jorn brings order to the chaos and makes ideas visible and understandable.
Trevor Humphres
an illustrator crafting creative solutions through illustrations and design
Rapids
Tackling complex challenges in the areas of sustainability and digital transformation requires more than just ambition or innovation—it requires a perfect balance between vision, strategy and execution.
With perspective, a holistic view, transparency and pragmatism, the Stroomversnellers help large organizations achieve successful transformations.
Business Cartooning
Quick insight into your business operations and creative advice when dealing with changes in organizations. And also a productive fast artist, both on paper and digitally.
Onno Willemse - Eqyre
Are you in the midst of the energy transition, digital transformation, or ESG debates? 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘵?You’re ready to move forward, your colleagues are too — yet your organisation never seems truly set up for it.
✳️ Strategies get stuck in planning.
✳️ Despite good intentions, no real, workable results emerge.
✳️ More ideas? They tend to create frustration rather than progress.
✳️ And complexity? It only seems to grow.
What’s needed goes beyond intent:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 — 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.
That’s where I come in: the Chief How Officer. A title my clients gave me when I guided them through exactly these dilemmas. I make sure the gap between vision and execution gets closed.
𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.The result: turning vision into motion — and ensuring that motion lasts. With the drive to push through where needed — and 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩. Always driven by purpose, always in connection with the organisation and its people.
Where others step back, I step in. Temporarily on board, to help steer your organisation through its toughest dilemmas.
Would you like to explore how your leadership team can truly make the difference — while keeping control? Let's connect!
Next Genners
From re-defining relevance for a corporate education brand by designing new value propositions to infusing an entrepreneurial mindset and ways of working into team cultures within the legal industry.
And from co-creating the future in the cultural sector to introducing design-doing and building a culture of innovation for an airline.
Whether it's the creation of a big and bold vision for the future, development of new value propositions, the uncovering of customer insights or new (entrepreneurial) ways of working to inspire innovation - let's do this!
Working with
Do you also work in a future-oriented way and do you look at the world from a visual narrative perspective? We are open to new reinforcements in the network, please contact us to get to know us.
Some of our customers
