In 2016, after years of experience in consulting and client-side as a business transformation leader, Julien was offered to become Chief Digital Officer of Arcadis, a large listed engineering firm. At first he was puzzled by the grand title which was then still quite unusual in the B2B space and even more so in the civil and environmental engineering sector. Julien decided to give it a chance and has never regretted it since despite the unavoidable highs and lows.
In 2019, Julien took up the challenge to drive the digital transformation of Loyens & Loeff, a large European law firm, which gave him additional insights because he got to do more or less the same job twice in a row, different businesses of course but both in professional services and rather traditional in their own ways, a bit like a digital leadership A/B testing.