Joeri Schouten, co-founder of Sweav, reshapes how businesses access top-tier strategy and M&A expertise. With experience at SparkOptimus, founded by McKinsey alumni, and as an independent strategy consultant for brands like Heineken, Wavin, and Bencis, Joeri knows what it takes to deliver results.
Sweav is the community for professionals who are trained at elite strategy and M&A firms firms like McKinsey, BCG, Bain and PwC. This way, Sweav makes top talent accessible to our clients. Forget bloated presentations and tiring politics; Joeri’s mission is to make impactful change stick.
Joeri lives in Amsterdam with his girlfriend and daughter and occasionally finds himself on a tennis court or festival.
Joeri Schouten co-founder Sweav and former strategy consultant
We'll discuss your needs and estimate the timeline and budget. More info
Within 48 hours, you’ll get a curated shortlist of Sweavers. You decide whom to interview. More info
You meet your shortlisted Sweavers, and make the final decision. We take care of the rest. More info
We’ll dive deeper into your challenges, in macro and specific terms. Together, we’ll sketch out a profile that meets your needs – including desired background, working experience, sector expertise, and cultural fit.
At this stage, we can give you info about individual Sweavers to use as examples and help convince other stakeholders.
Once you approve our recommendations, estimated timeline and budget, we’ll get to work.
We’ll share your project description and requirements with our exclusive community via our member-only app. We’ll also reach out proactively to Sweavers we believe could be a perfect fit.
We hand-pick the right Sweaver for your project, based on our experience, judgement and your criteria.
Within 48 hours, you’ll receive a shortlist of Sweavers, curated based on the criteria we discussed. For good measure, we’ll have another call to discuss your options and trade-offs.
Interview as many people on your shortlist as many times as you need, and decide who meets your criteria best. We’ll make sure they’re fully briefed before you talk.
Your chosen Sweaver will make a short proposal for you to review, including context and objectives, deliverables, timeline and total fee.
Once you’ve made a final decision, Sweav takes care of contracting and invoicing. If you’re a corporate client, we work with all brokers.
