Our coaches

Derk Reiffers

A company is the sum of its employees who work there.

By having walked through a wide range of branches and organisations on an operational-, technological-, and management level I have gained a vast amount of knowledge that can be put to use in a plethora of ways. Those branches are; chemicals, paper industry, medicine, plastics, food, and education facilities. The wish to use this knowledge for coaching purposes relates to my trust and belief that being approachable is a way of bettering oneself in a multitude of ways.

The ability to observe and provide a listening ear form the bridge towards the first step to the cooperative communication that leads to the intended result(s). All organisational aspects for a satisfied customer can, and should, be utilised in realising those goals.

An organisation is a cooperation between people to reach a predetermined goal. In order to do so, organisations utilise a wide range of resources based on technique and technology. The use and management of this process as a whole should be controlled to provide for a smooth process of having the goal meet the demands that have been or will be determined for a viable existence

I describe myself as follows;

• Creates added value by helping people develop and optimise their talent(s) and work-potential.
• A conjunctive personality, independent, analytic, pragmatic, and persistent.
• Has a healthy dose of curiosity, a vision on human development, and capable of ambiguously directing a process.
• Enjoys taking initiative whenever/wherever necessary.
• Improving as desired runs through my veins.

The incentive to be a coach is to guide people or a process in an innovative environment.
Always searching for binding factors in an organisation to analyse and optimise them where doing so is desired.

The continuous process of learning new techniques and the processes they entail is natural and evident and provides me with an incentive for motivation and job satisfaction. I like to peer beyond the borders.

My profile;

Plan-/ troubleshooting manager with knowledge & experience in the field of solving troubling problems | mindset & behaviour issues/questions | 6S Lean | plan management | WCOM | continuous improvement | Business administration process optimisation | initiator | connector | enthusiastic | food/nutrients | cardboard/carton | medical devices | chemistry | educational program developer | durability | BSc business administration |

Klaas Heijs

My family owns a factory, which gave me the opportunity to develop an interest in and affinity with production technology and processes from an early age.

In the first years of my career I gained experience with implementations of various 'tools', in models and methods to optimize processes technologically. This varied from automation and sensors, to benchmark, reporting and Lean methods.

From there I moved on to managerial positions. I learned that with the core values of the company and the recognition and respect of individuals, I can inspire employees. This results in intrinsically motivated employees who are proud of their work and the organisation.

My motivation is to coordinate things optimally, so that everything is used to its full extent and to its full advantage. My ambition is to achieve this in organisations where everything seems to be self-evident, without effort and without waste.

I achieve this by means of a leaderships style, in which employees are given confidence and space and are guided in their growth and solving bottlenecks. This creates a proactive team that structurally strives every day for the continously elimination of errors. If you also monitor this with an appropriate integral reporting system, at all levels of the organization, the motivation remains high and the momentum is continuously increased.

As a peoples manager, I also think in terms of models, processes and systems and am therefore able to adapt well to what is necessary for a production organisation to perform well, in which people can thrive.

I like to learn how your organization runs and what the ambition and motivation is. I would then like to look together with you at how we can implement the above in your organisation. An organization that performs its tasks seemingly effortlessly with good revenues. Shall we start with a coffee?

Jeroen Kleef

Over the years I learned, that even in the most technology driven companies, people are the absolute key factor to success. I've seen that if you create a stable, stress free, transparent organisation where people feel free to express themselves, tap into their creativity and learn to communicate at a professional level, or even better, asking eachother for help, the impossible becomes possible.

Lean, Six Sigma, WCM, and all other tools are just natural effects of such an organization.

Observing the transformation of really hardworking, often stressed, people into relaxed functioning employees, happily going to their work and realizing that I played a, what so ever modest, role in improving their happiness, sometimes even in there private lives, is so energy boosting that I got addicted!

Happy to help you create a littlebit better world.