Building Healthy Organizations
Building Healthy Organizations
Leadership & Culture Coaching
Leadership isn’t a single role or skill, but a practice anyone can take one: aligning vision with action, inspiring others with clarity and care and staying grounded in times of change.
I combine coaching, HRD expertise and organizational strategy to help you grow your leadership and build organizations where people thrive. Depending on your needs, we can work together in three different ways:
1. Your sparringpartner
For founders and small organizations without an HR advisor.
You don’t need a full-time HR manager, but are looking for an experienced partner to lean on. We meet regularly to look at your people and culture questions, I give you practical advice and I’m available in between for quick feedback.
What it’s not: I don’t take on operational HR work such as drafting contracts or handling sick leave. Instead, I help you handle this yourself. By the end of our collaboration, you are working with confidence on most HR issues.
2. Shaping culture together
For organizations ready to build structures that reflect their values.
We design the frameworks and practices that make your values visible and workable in daily life. That might mean clarifying roles, creating a learning & development approach, or experimenting with Holacracy or sociocracy.
The result: values turned into clear agreements and practices, facilitating healthy, effective collaboration. Moving away from traditional command-and-control, towards working with self-organizing principles.
3. Trusted Companion
For founders and leaders navigating growth or transformation.
Leading through change is demanding and often deeply personal. In this longer-term partnership, I combine coaching and strategy to help you grow in your leadership while keeping your organization aligned and moving forward.
You’ll have a trusted companion by your side: someone who understands your context, supports your personal development and helps you align leadership decisions with people and strategy.
How we work
Whether our work together is brief or long-term, you always get my full presence, strategic eye and care for both people and the whole system. We can work remotely, or in person if you are in the Netherlands.
Ready to start?
Let’s start with a conversation to clarify your needs and see if we are a match. Schedule your call here.
What others say
Check out what other’s say about our collaboration.
Working with Annemieke was an absolute pleasure. As interim HR advisor, she ensured continuity and stability while guiding the search for a new People & Culture Lead, resulting in the perfect match for our team. At the same time, she coached partners and senior team members with great sensitivity and impact. Annemieke goes the extra mile and is a trusted sparring partner. She has a unique ability to sense what is truly needed and to provide just the right support, without losing sight of the original assignment. Thanks to her, everything came together in the best possible way. We are deeply grateful for her contribution.
I have been working with Annemieke for more than five years. We don’t talk to each other every day, but when we do work together, it always feels intimate from the get go. Maybe that’s because Annemieke listens so well and is just that personally connected to her work. Either way, she brings great quality – which creates a collaboration that always goes a little deeper than usual.
Annemieke is my first line of support when it comes to HR issues in the context of self-organization. There are plenty of people out there who have ideas about this, and very few who have actually worked and lived in organizations like this their whole working lives – for whom it is actually totally normal. That makes Annemieke one of the few coaches I regularly recommend to my own customers.
Annemieke is open, honest and has a great feel for the human side of organizations, as well as the developmental needs of people and teams. She helped us take the next step beyond Holacracy and organizing the responsibility for HR (a term that she secretly dislikes) in a different way within our team. She has made her own role superfluous, though to me she still feels included: happy to know she is just one phone-call away when we need support. In her role as a coach, she challenges my thinking and puts me to work, in a good way. I look back on our sessions with great pleasure.
Collaborating with Annemieke really is awesome. She has helped me several times, during periods when my thoughts seemed completely chaotic. Annemieke provides clarity, structure and knows how to get you back on track. Since we hold similar core values, and she gives everything she has, we can always talk openly and honestly about everything. I wholeheartedly recommend Annemieke as an executive coach.
In 2013, our organisation further professionalized its HR practices. Annemieke was of tremendous help to us in this process – at strategic, tactical and operational levels. With her support, we translated our vision into a concrete set of HR tools. We are very satisfied and truly happy with the collaboration!
