Summary
Stef Kuypers is a Monetary Systems Architect and researcher with 11 years of experience blending IT architecture, behavioural economics, and creative facilitation to redesign how money shapes individual and collective behaviour. As founder of the Sustainable Money System (SuMSy) and lead at Happonomy, he runs experiential workshops that pair theory with embodied exercises so participants can feel—not just understand—the societal effects of monetary design. Trained in IT and improvisational theatre, Stef combines technical rigor, systems thinking and a playful facilitation style to surface hidden incentives and catalyse new social practices. His PhD research at VUB investigates scalable monetary models aimed at driving sustainable economic and social outcomes, rooted in self-study across complexity theory, sociology and progressive economic thought. Unusually, he leverages decades of software-architect experience to translate abstract monetary concepts into concrete, testable systems people can live with and learn from.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Basic, Creative thinking, Basic, Creative thinking at COCD
KA Boom
Consciousness coaching
Theater, Theater at Wisper
Intervening with passion, Intervening with passion at Strange
PhD, Business Economics, PhD, Business Economics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Co-active leadership, Leadership, Co-active leadership, Leadership at CTI
Certification, Theory-U, Certification, Theory-U at Presencing Institute and Art of Sensing
Improvisation theater, Improvisation theater at Keith Johnstone
Improvisation theater, Improvisation theater at Loose Moose
Co-active Coaching intermediate, Coaching, Co-active Coaching intermediate, Coaching at Schouten en Nelissen
English, Dutch, French