The Business Emergency Room
A podcast hosted by Maartje van Krieken
& The Chaos Games Consulting
A new episode with insights and tools to triage the turmoil every Wednesday.
For leaders facing Scaling Challenges, High-stakes decisions, Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environments, Crisis management, or other rapid business growth pains.
About the Podcast
Scaling a business isn’t just about strategy—it’s about navigating chaos, making fast but sound decisions, and keeping teams aligned under pressure. The Business Emergency Room helps leaders, founders, and decision-makers sharpen their decision-making mechanics, master people dynamics, and build resilience in 'VUCA' markets.
Host Maartje van Krieken shares battle-tested frameworks to eliminate bottlenecks, avoid analysis paralysis, and turn turbulence into traction. The Podcast also features frequent guests, experienced voices and subject matter experts who can share insights on business emergencies of all sorts and the best ways for leaders to succeed.
Tune in weekly for real-world insights to lead with confidence and thrive in turmoil.
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About the Host
Maartje van Krieken is a crisis strategist, executive consultant, and your at host of The Business Emergency Room podcast—where growing businesses go when things get messy. With a career that began in frontier oil and gas and spanned war zones, boardrooms, and billion-dollar pivots, Maartje has spent over two decades helping organizations steer through chaos and come out stronger.
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Now through her consulting firm, The Chaos Games, Maartje works with medium-sized businesses—especially those scaling rapidly or navigating uncertainty—to diagnose breakdowns in leadership, collaboration, and decision-making before they become business emergencies. Her signature approach blends practical triage, people-first strategy, and blunt Dutch honesty to help teams realign fast.
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The Business Emergency Room delivers high-impact insights for business leaders, board members, and investors who are tired of the symptoms—disconnection, friction, paralysis—and want the tools to fix what’s really going wrong. Maartje’s episodes cut through fluff with stories, frameworks, and metaphors that turn even the most complex chaos into something leaders can act on.
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Maartje is based in New Orleans and speaks regularly on navigating organizational storms, building business resilience, and turning reactive firefighting into proactive leadership. Whether you’re scaling a business, running a team, or dealing with dysfunction, The Business Emergency Room is the place to find straight talk and smarter tools.
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