ABOUT HENKO
Henko: Change under a
different light.
Business performance expertise. A Sensei approach to change.
Henko brings together consulting’s focus on business performance with the expertise, challenge and coaching of a Sensei.
We help leaders and teams understand what holds performance back, design practical changes and develop the capability to sustain them. Our role is to strengthen their ownership and responsibility as they improve the business.
Technology transformed. But did the organisation?
Henko was founded in 2017 on a simple observation: after two decades of digital transformation, businesses had delivered substantial technology, but many had barely changed how they organised around it.
Technology remained a project delivery function, sitting alongside the business and connected through layers of requirements, governance and coordination. The technology evolved faster than the organisation’s ability to use it effectively.
That separation limited the promise of digital. AI makes addressing it more urgent: many opportunities will emerge through people experimenting, improving their work and developing solutions together.
Bring business and technology into the same value chains.
Henko was created to help organisations make that shift.
We help businesses understand the dynamics of their value chains and align cross-functional teams, across Business and Tech, around customer outcomes. We establish operational excellence and continuous improvement in Services and Tech, and develop more collaborative ways to shape and execute strategy.
Leadership and teamwork develop alongside these practices. Together, they build an organisation capable of taking ownership of its performance and continuing to evolve.
Henko: More than a name. A philosophy of change.
Henko’s name reflects our inspiration from Japan’s contribution to work organisation and leadership, particularly the Toyota Production System, the Toyota Way and Lean thinking.
For us, it expresses two connected ideas:
See your context under a different light.
We help leaders and teams see their present differently: the relationships, constraints and possibilities that familiar ways of working can obscure.
That new perspective gives people the opportunity to shape change themselves, grounded in the reality of their business.
A change with no comeback. Keep going forward.
We also associate Henko with change from which there is no return. Each increment develops new understanding, practices and capabilities, creating a different starting point for what follows. Continuous change moves forward through learning, consolidating progress and adjusting direction as new possibilities emerge.
Meet the founder.
Founder · Business and technology change leader · Executive and team coach
Philippe brings 30 years of experience across technology, executive leadership and business transformation. Before founding Henko, he held leadership roles at Sapient and GFT, with responsibility for global teams, operations and commercial performance.
His work through Henko includes engagements with KFC, Deutsche Bank and CPP Investments, connecting operating-model design, strategy, continuous improvement and leadership development.
Philippe combines this experience with professional and advanced team-coaching credentials from the International Coaching Federation, and certification in Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching. He also founded LeanTech Circles to create opportunities for practitioners and leaders to learn together.
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Perspectives for business, technology and change leaders on improving performance, connecting strategy with practice and developing organisations that keep evolving.
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