Niels Pflaeging is a passionate advocate for a “new breed“ of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is founder and associate of the BetaCodex Network. Prior to the BetaCodex Network, Niels was for five years a director with the prestigious Beyond Budgeting Round Table BBRT. Since 2006, Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for firms both in Europe and the Americas. Niels has almost 20 years of consulting experience with companies large and small, and teaches part-time at academic institutions. In 2018, he co-founded Red42, together with Silke Hermann - an innovative start-up on the fringe of workplace learning and organizational development. Their first innovative offerings from Red42 include the social technologies OpenSpace Beta, Cell Structure Design, Relative Targets. The social technology LearningCircles by Red42 evolved into an EdTech business on its own: qomenius based in Wiesbaden.

Niels has published 11 books so far. His second book, Leading with flexible Targets. Beyond Budgeting in Practice was awarded the Financial Times Germany Best Business Book award, in 2006. Both this book and his works Organize for Complexity and Complexitools (together with Silke Hermann) were lauded by critics and readers alike. They all became bestsellers. In 2018, Niels published his 2nd book in English, OpenSpace Beta - also co-authored with Silke Hermann. His latest book in English is Essays on Beta, Vol. 1, a collection of 20 crisp short texts, released in 2020.