Bureau Zee

I am a listener and a sculptor. For nearly 20 years I worked in and with engineering and manufacturing companies, a university and a religious organisation, helping leaders and their teams navigate complex transitions. Now, after a year of quiet reflection and stonework, I am returning to my people practice as a listener and guide.  The question that continues to intrigue me is what  leadership is being called for, in organizations, in working communities, in this world right now? And how can we lead our lives and working communities from the essence of being human?

My work with people and stones explores how relationships influence the flow of primary energy in a field: how do sculptures relate to the space they also shape? And equally, how are wé creating boundaries and space? What determines the flow of energy in an organization, a working community? I invite clients to develop their capacity for conscious leadership: Why – are – we – here – now? Of course I too continue to explore that question and seek to stay with the beauty of sometimes glimpsing an answer, and often not knowing.

Previous projects included the re-inspiration and simultaneous reorganization of a large religious organization; leadership development in an electricity company’s to enable the transition towards renewable energy; the development of a culture of accountability and craftsmanship in a refinery; leadership development in a growing pharmaceutical company, or  the performance improvement of a utility company call center.

Together clients and I make a space that enables individual leaders to grow, and allows the working community these leaders lead to develop into what it can be. By joining a client organisation or individual leaders on their journey for a while, I join their field. What happens in and through and with me, and us in our relationship, is always information that tells us something about the climate in an organization, and how individual people take up their roles in it. This also means I cannot ever do my work well, if I am not prepared to open myself to learning and growing, giving and receiving just as much as my clients might in our work together.