Will Jacobs

Will is the brains behind Rock, Paper, Scissors. He initially developed this fast, agile, and effective leadership framework to manage a crisis and has refined it over two decades with

fantastic results. A leader himself, he has a passion for cultivating enduring relationships at work and securing strategic partnerships to achieve outstanding outcomes. This comes as part of creating a cultural environment in which transparency, capability, and individual personalities are key.

Will is senior vice president of global operational excellence and engineering at Firmenich, the world’s largest privately owned fragrance and flavour company, and the chief supply chain officer and executive vice president of Cimpress NV, as well as a member of its management board. Will also served as general manager of Columbus, a major engineering and product development start-up programme at Cimpress. Prior to that he was vice president of operations industrial adhesives EMEA of Henkel, and he served in a number of leadership roles in supply chain, operations and safety, and health and environment in the chemical sector earlier in his career. Will is the founder and managing partner of LeadToSuccess, a bespoke advisory, coaching, and training firm based in The Netherlands. He currently lives in Geneva,

Switzerland, but also spends time in his home town of Maastricht, The Netherlands, where his

family is based.