Denise Harkema
Denise Harkema is a consultant focusing on safe, healthy and productive work in a changing and increasingly digitalised work environment. She works on the impact of technologies such as AI and data-driven management on work and safety.
Her work brings together technology, policy and practice. She translates new developments into concrete and evidence-based ways to improve work and safety in organisations, working with a wide range of companies and public authorities. Denise holds certification in safety management and has an academic background in chemical engineering.
Denise works on questions related to the impact of digitalisation on safe, healthy and productive work. Her focus includes topics such as AI and algorithmic management, the digitalisation of safety management, and the role of technology in the organisation of work.
She is involved in national and European projects that explore and develop these themes further. In this context, she works a wide range of stakeholders to make new and emerging issues more concrete and to develop practical approaches.
Her work is grounded in a substantive, evidence-based approach and a clear link to practice. She contributes to studies, explorations and tooling at the intersection of work, technology and safety.
Denise has extensive experience in multidisciplinary collaboration and in bringing complex topics back to their essence. She focuses on solutions that work in the day-to-day reality of organisations.
Denise Harkema: 'Technology is changing how we work. The challenge is to make sure that it strengthens safe, healthy and productive work.'