Bureau Zee

The sea (zee in Dutch) is always moving, it ebbs and flows, it bounds the shores and in turn is bound by the land, moved by the moon and lit by the sun, it has depths that nobody has ever seen – like life in organizations and communities, its possibilities are enormous but not without facing our fear of the cold water, or encountering the freshness of the waves.

With my clients I work on projects like the performance improvement of a utility company call center, the development of a culture of accountability in a refinery, leadership development in a growing pharmaceutical company, or an electricity company’s transition to becoming a leader in green energy. We work on the basis that the container we build together enables people to grow as individual leaders ánd to allow the working community they nurture to grow into what it can be.

By joining a client organisation or individual leaders on their journey for a while, I join their system. What happens in and through and with me, and us in our relationship, is always information that tells us something about the working community an organization is, 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.

In essence, I invite clients to explore the spirit and purpose that fuel the primary task of their organizations: Why – are – we – here – now? And I believe my work, and that of leaders is in essence about holding, moving, being and grounding.