Our coaches

Derk Reiffers

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

Having gained experience in a great number of fields and organisations on an operational-, technological-, and management level, I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge that can be put to use in a wide variety of ways. Those fields 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 listen are fundamental to the cooperative communication that will lead to the intended result(s). Every effort should be made to satisfy the customer and help him attain his 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 ensure that the goal effortlessly meets the demands established 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, analytical, pragmatic, and persistent.
• Has a healthy dose of curiosity, a vision on human development, and capable of ambiguously directing a process.
• Enjoys taking the 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 look outside the box.

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

As a people's 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 would 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 have 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 each other 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 work and realizing that I played an, albeit modest, role in improving their happiness, sometimes even in their private lives, is so energy-boosting that I got addicted!

Happy to help you create a little bit of a better world.