Willem Manuputty

Willem Manuputty is a Dutch trainer, coach, therapist and specialist in leadership and organisational development, and the founder of Humanwise. Born in 1971 as the youngest of nine children in a Moluccan-Dutch family, he worked in retail and HR services, including leadership roles at Randstad and Adecco, before turning to the human dynamics behind performance, collaboration and change. He studied Business Administration, Human Resource Management and Social Psychology, and trained in Transactional Analysis, systemic work, trauma-informed approaches, Internal Family Systems and Polyvagal Theory. Since 2015, through Humanwise, he has worked with leaders, teams and organisations to help people move from survival and protection towards safety, connection and meaningful development. With Esther Bontekoe, he also leads a training programme in polyvagal-inspired leadership. Polyvagal-Informed Leadership is his first book.