Executive coaching & board advisory for newly-appointed CISOs, CIOs and digital leaders — cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI governance and Zero Trust.
A private executive practice by Prof. Dr. Yuri Bobbert. Bespoke guidance for newly-appointed leaders navigating digital transformation, assurance, agile organisations and artificial intelligence — on-summit, or anywhere worldwide.
A Sherpa for the newly-appointed executive — a quiet, expert companion at altitudes where the air grows thin.
Ysherpa is not a training programme. It is a highly-personal practice designed for leaders who have just stepped into the chair — and must move with precision, speed, and a legible sense of direction from the first week onward.
Every engagement is composed around you: your industry, your calendar, your constraints, your ambitions. Sessions take place in-person, virtually, or in a blended cadence — wherever your mission is.
Strategic alignment between where you stand today and the summit you intend to reach. We read the weather, the terrain, and what only you can decide to carry.
Tactical goals translated into an executable plan with a clear cadence, decision rights, and outcome ownership — built to survive contact with the organisation.
Progress monitored, adjustments made, altitude held. A standing line of counsel through the weather of board meetings, M&A, crises, and the long days between.
Re-architecting the enterprise for a world where software, data, and model-native operations are no longer the IT department's concern, but the CEO's terrain.
Evidence-based confidence in the systems you inherit. Risk, security, regulatory and audit terrain mapped so you can sign, speak, and sleep — with your name on the line.
Organisations that learn at the speed of the problem — not the org-chart.
Strategic, safe, and provably-valuable adoption of AI — beyond the hype cycle.
Human-centred, resilient, sustainable industry — where machines serve people, not the other way around.
YB · 2026 The Hague Prof. Dr. Yuri Bobbert is a Dutch entrepreneur in technology, author, and professor. He is the founder of Meetingwizard and B-ABLE, and currently serves as Professor at Antwerp Management School and Global Chief Security Officer at ON2IT. He has previously held Global Group CSO roles at NN Group and UWV.
He holds a double PhD (2018) in information-security performance management and enterprise engineering from Radboud University and Antwerp Management School, is a Stanford Graduate in Technology Leadership, and has mentored more than a hundred Master's students. He is the author of the Maturing Business Information Security framework, Leading in Digital Security, Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance and the CISO Handbook, among other volumes — and in 2025 was awarded the ISACA Inspirational Leadership Award.
Engagements are accepted selectively and by introduction. Send a short note below — Yuri replies personally within one working day, with a proposed first conversation.
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