About
Our Conviction:
Transaction Value Does Not Erode by Accident
House of Human Due Diligence was initiated by Chris Baelemans and Nathan Kotek.
From experience. Across transactions, advisory work and entrepreneurship, we repeatedly encountered the same reality:
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Human factors were decisive — yet rarely governed with the same discipline as financial risk.
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We did not see a lack of intelligence. We saw a lack of deliberate care for human reality and its governance.
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We believe durable value requires explicit responsibility for the human dimension. As dedicated discipline.
Team
Chris Baelemans
Founder House of HDD
Partner Shurman M&A
Serial Enterpreneur
Nathan Kotek
Founder House of HDD
Partner Shurman M&A
PE & M&A Concepting
Monique Schuurmans
Partner
Behavioural Strategy, Leadership & Applied Practice
Mission
To establish Human Due Diligence as a recognised discipline in capital transactions — as standard as Financial Due Diligence.
Vision
A transaction is not considered complete unless its human consequences are explicitly examined and governed.
Strategy
We build the discipline through:
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Applied work in live transactions
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Multidisciplinary collaboration
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Professional standards, community and education
We understand that balancing human reality and governance is not easy. It requires disciplined judgement and responsibility. But it should not be mystified.
WHY A HOUSE
We are not alone in recognising this gap.
Across private equity, M&A, strategy consulting, leadership advisory, culture guidance, governance, integration service and behavioural science, professionals address elements of the same human reality.
Yet the field remains fragmented.
Different languages. Different lenses. Different mandates.
We built a House to bring these perspectives into one coherent discipline.
To connect what is too often separated. To establish shared language.
Shared standards. Shared accountability.
Because a dedicated discipline does not emerge in isolation.
The Human Reality,
Given a Place
This is not soft. Not abstract. Not “culture talk”.
It is leadership under pressure. Incentives under change.
Trust under shifting power.
It deserves care for human reality and governance.
But human governance — grounded in reality, proportionate, and aware that balance requires judgement.
It is about making what already influences value explicit and governable.
Human Due Diligence is operational. It is evolving.
And we are committed to building it — with others, into a profession.