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I'm the proud father of two daughters, Maaike and Anne and a son, Dirk and grandfather of Ilse and Jochem. With my partner, Hanne, I live on our houseboat in the Netherlands. I'm the founder and owner of JLS International BV. My passion is around strength based leadership, rooted in the ideas, philosophy of social constructionism and Appreciative Inquiry. Most of my life I have had the privilege of facilitation organizations in senior positions, something I truly enjoyed.
Kia ora dear friends, how wonderful to see the European Network alive and well. After two full years in a demanding role I am about to reclaim freedom and enjoy developing Appreciative ReWirement. This is a new start and likely to be a slow build - so watch this space as I work through the questions. I am motivated to learn how we, in a post covid19 world, help ourselves and others to create a renewed, fairer, sustainable future for all. We have the technology! I look forward to the conversations.
I design and deliver training programs for influencing in organisations, leadership and personal development. Specialised in coaching teams of highly skilled professionals with inspiring training and empowering facilitation.
I am a networker and strong facilitator with a passion for people. Creative brainstormer and teambuilder. Effective communication and organization skills combined with a friendly and approachable personality. Highly disciplined and committed to quality customer service.
The main theme throughout my career is technology design and it's implementation in every day life. As a trainer/consultant I have designed and delivered learning and training programs around issues as full customer satisfaction, entrepreneurship and management development.
Specialties: Program design, developer and facilitator of various large group interventions
Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, Open Space, Influencing
Originally I am from the Netherlands. Over the years, have I lived in different countries. Presently, I live in Dhaka, Bangladesh together with my husband Harry.
I have been privileged to meet people of all kinds of different cultural backgrounds. In the many conversations I have had, I have learned from other people’s experiences and stories. They have broadened my horizon.
As an appreciative practitioner, I explore with my clients their concerns, their challenges and their talents. I consider my counselling successful if my clients feel comfortable in telling their own story and taking leadership.
My partners in Dhaka are YYGoshti (start-up incubator), SBK Foundation (Digital technologies in rural Bangladesh) and PUM (Senior experts Netherlands).
Member of NIP (Netherlands Institute of Psychologists).
I am firstly, a husband to a beautiful wife and dad to 2 beautiful daughters - this is my prime calling, and it gives me great joy ... and some grey hairs!!
Living in South Africa is a challenge, a privilege, and a rich experience ... not for the soft-hearted. I am a teambuilding practitioner and I absolutely thrive in working with teams - assisting them to perform and see the world through new eyes. With over a hundred teambuilds with VWSA alone, we are right up there with the leaders in this field. Here we have the honour of partnering with corporates to shape the future for many.
I also assist in managing an NPO - The OLI Foundation, which is an adventure-based youth leadership initiative that works with thousands of young people every year. Africa is an exciting adventure and our youth need positive role models that will assist them in leading the way in this the 4th Industrial Revolution, and quite possibly the last one we will get to experience.
I love to create and boost purposeful projects and shine a light onto the dark side of the moon. Excellence in team performance is my hottest topic and Appreciative Inquiry gives wings to them who dive deep into it.
As Ron Fry says, conversation is the only game in town. I help organizations to communicate better and create meaningful conversations based on trust.
#FutureOfWork #OrganizationalDevelopment #Leadership
www.attitude-concept.com
I am driven by helping others, and me myself, making a positive change in the world. I help people identify and build on their strengths, develop their leadership, and build their companies - whether from scratch or anew. I love hiking and being in nature, and I have a deep interest in different cultures and travelling the world.
I am a strong believer in Business as an Agent for World Benefit, and love when companies and people in general gather around a problem, we face, and solve it with appreciative eyes and collaborative minds.
I energize and enable people, teams and organizations in evolving their lives, language and businesses for positive impacts and a thriving future for all.
One of my contributions to the world is human-centered Organizational Governance (www.hcOrG.com) for which I curate the Life at Work // Weekly newsletter (join it!).
I also founded speakGreen to promote an intentional, life-affirming language for the future (www.speak-Green.com) and published the book Words Create Worlds: Cultivating a Conscious, Life-Affirming Language.
Since 1998, I facilitate transformations and r*evolutions in organizations, teams and individuals in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Subsaharan Africa. I provide individual and team coaching, consultation, trainings and online courses regarding a wide variety of topics within the areas of the HUMAN futures of work*ing and collaborating. As a keynote and TEDx speaker I offer inspiring, mind-expanding and action-provoking talks.
Connect with me on LinkedIn, email me on info@drclaudiagross.com and contact me for any potential collaborations!
I'm looking forward to hearing from you 🙂
info@drclaudiagross.com
www.drclaudiagross.com
We are an evidence-based psychological consultancy with an over-arching commitment to applying well-researched positive psychology to our interactions, designs and interventions. As a team we are united in our belief in the power of positive approaches to change, at the individual, organisational and team level. We are open and transparent in our dealings with you
Our approach is based on understanding people: we can work with any organisation to develop leadership and vision, work performance and engagement, and a positive work culture. We specialise in working with change.
I love my family and friends, I love people in general, mathematics and humanistics, management and organization development, dialogue and connective leadership, learning organizations and appreciative inquiry, wholeness and continuous renewal, generativity and genarrativity.
My mission is humanization of organization. Free 'right to copy' download of my AI 3.0 book on www.appreciativeinquiries.eu.
My mission is humanization of organization. Free 'right to copy' download of my AI 3.0 book on www.appreciativeinquiries.eu.
I am passionate of Appreciative Inquiry and contemplative meditation both great life giving practices. I love art, painting and writings. Have published 13 books, several on appreciative inquiry, self development and meditation. Have been arround the AI European network for many years. I live near Barcelona city, and seeing the sea from every window of my house reminds me of all that connects us, like the sea that surounds our lands and connects us all.
In the beginning of October ’24 we received the news of the passing away of José Otte. Two years ago she informed me about her illness and asked to be temporary removed from our mailing list so she could fully focus on her recovery. It is very sad to hear that she is no longer with us.
José combined working as a researcher, lecturer and consultant; always working from a social constructionist view, using Appreciative Inquiry and Aikido to study the field of research, management of change, leadership and organization development. She coached students through various phases of future forming research and - in her words – by using the Head, Heart and Hara (the center point of the body).
In the AI Practitioner of September 2021 José wrote the article The Next Step; it is about transformation by doing action research. “The exchange of ideas through sharing stories is more about an exchange of gifts. Through these gifts, we spread knowledge”. We thank the co-publishers of the AI Practitioner to allow us to put this wonderful and highly worth reading article on this page to honor José.
José will be remembered as an inspiring woman who left behind lovely memories of bringing together various strands/ different disciplines for her practices and her research.
Based in the Stuttgart area in the South of Germany, Heike has been working with Appreciative Inquiry internationally since 2007. She applies AI in a wide variety of applications: coaching, facilitation, team development, leadership development, business planning and train-the-trainer seminars. Clients include corporate, public and private organisations. Heike is an engaging speaker and has given many lectures and talks on AI. She is available for consulting and coaching on- and offline. Heike works in German, English, Dutch and Italian.
Kessels & Smit supports clients in government, business, healthcare, culture, education and social profit with their individual, organisational and social development challenges. The key to 'big' questions is not only in systems. It's mainly in people. Development of each organisation or group therefore goes hand in hand with personal growth and strong cooperation.
On the road to inclusive art and culture, from curator and teacher to coach and now community librarian. Coordinator specializing in professionalization and concept development. Strong in connections and strategy. Likes to ask why things are the way they are.
www.fritzwalter.com
info@fritzwalter.com
info@fritzwalter.com
I have seen, time and time again, the magic of human connection and what can come from it when people are truly seen. I want to build in the world the capacity to truly see the humans within their organizations and to grow together. What makes me human is my ability to love, care and deliver compassion to my fellow human beings and to gain strength from others stories of hope.
Towards the end of July 2024 we received the sad news that Vera (1990 – 2024) had decided to leave our world, leaving many of us in shock, with unbelieve and with many questions. As her friend and colleague, I would like to share a few words on what Vera meant to me and our community.
Vera was and is known for her smile, her grace, her dedication to bring about a world that honors all Life and that would contribute to what she called a ‘grandchild proof future’. She was sharing and spreading her passion for appreciative inquiry (AI) in many ways and places. Whether it was helping to revive the European AI community through a beautiful website (2021), organizing the glocal gathering for the European AI community for the 2022 JAM, facilitating AI culture sessions for the World Food Program in Rome (2023), working with ESCP students in Berlin (2023) on ‘Doing what you love and loving what you do’ using as AI as the fundament, organizing the Ask Me Anything calls around appreciative inquiry and leadership, or organizing the Salon ‘Turning the Tide, doing business in a way that honors all Life in Amsterdam (2024) trying to bridge Peter Koenig’s work on Love in Business with David’s work on Appreciative Inquiry, Vera was there with her dedication, her smile, her courage, her enthusiasm and sometimes also her doubts and concerns , but always with her love – she was a beautiful human being!
Some of you may have met her during the WWAIC in Nice where I had the honor of delivering a wonderful workshop with her on ‘AI and intergenerational work’, using the tango as a metaphor. That also pictures her. Vera loved dancing the tango, arts and could really enjoy a good meal and a good coffee! She left us way too early and also leaves us with a beautiful legacy of inspiration and hope, something to be deeply appreciated and grateful for even though it is surrounded by so much sadness. It was such an incredible joy to work with her and I know that I and many of us will miss her deeply.
I love to facilitate and be part of learning, developing an enjoying new experiences.
Exploring the world my three sons and grandchildren of 3 and 5 years old gives me great joy. Working with my friends and colleagues is always enriching.
Being with my husband Barend and traveling with him to new cultures and people gives life very rich dimensions.
And of course working with teams, looking for new solutions with clients and help people making their own choices always brings me joy.
With 25 years of professional experience, Bernard has held several positions within the Philips Group in sales and human resources: HR manager for a complex automotive site, HR Manager for a Business Line, international consultant on leadership and organizational development. In the latter position, he developed managerial development programs and change processes in France and Europe, and designed and deployed training in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
He is a certified executive coach at the C&T Transformance coaching school (Vincent Lenhardt) in Paris.
Expert in Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focus (strengths- and solutions-oriented approaches), Transactional Analysis, Systems. He trains practitioners at the international level in Appreciative Inquiry in France, UK, South Africa.
He is one of the pioneers in Europe on strength-based approaches. He is a member of the European Board of Appreciative Inquiry Practitioners.
Madavi is changing the way in which we change.
Madavi is aligning strengths towards aspirations in the sense of opportunities.
We act upon the culture and business at the same time.
Madavi is aligning strengths towards aspirations in the sense of opportunities.
We act upon the culture and business at the same time.
We are facilitators, that is to say, we make it easy.
By being appreciative, we see more strengths and potential in our clients than
they do themselves.
International Development Consultant and Optimist with over 20 years’ experience. Mother of 3 young adult children.
Passionate about participatory processes using tools like Appreciative Inquiry to co-create, bringing individuals, teams, organizations, communities, to reach sustainable results, and to help them reach their potential. Committed to alternative energy and environmental protection. Thinking about how do the businesses of tomorrow should look like, in this very interconnected world.
Flexible to work in international and diverse working environments with strong cross-cultural communication skills. Have lived and work in 7 courtiers in different continents, proficient in English-Spanish-French-German-Portuguese.
The core of my work consists of Appreciative Coaching. My purpose is to make the invisible visible and the unheard heard. Therefore I strive for clarity, profoundness and caring in guiding higher educated professionals – ranging from students to young scientists to senior management - in developing their self-guidance in their own time, career or working environment.
FRITZ WALTER - EXPERT IN POSITIVE CHANGE, serves the goal-oriented further development of people and organizations. So far, so good, so self-evident. There are two (additional?) aspects that are important here:
First, we want to be there for our customers when they need us. We feel - as the fox from the Little Prince reminds us - (co-)responsible for the people and organizations we have become familiar with. In crises, we are therefore always available.
Secondly, we definitely have our own goals, some would say a mission. And this could be described as subversive (although it is no longer so if we disclose it here): We do not consider companies to be an end in themselves, but find that they have to serve: People and society. We want to (be able to) talk with each other and with our customers about what this service consists of in concrete terms.
www.fritzwalter.com
Building organizations where people work together with a lot of enthousiasm to achieve impressive results. That's what drives me.
I believe that we can build beautiful and powerful organisations when everyone involved takes a stand and gives it his best shot.
Starting from what works I like to create a safe space where everything that needs to be discussed is welcomed. Only by invested in this open and inviting environment, we can move forward together.
Apart from this I believe that using new, engaging and creative methods encourages people to do what's needed to achieve the impressive results they strive to.
Being playful, building ownership, creating an open and safe space, ... are some of my main ways to get humans in motion. It's not about me, it's about the people I work with.
Connecting conversations are the core of what happens when I work with people. Out of these conversations beautiful things will emerge.
And the beauty of it all is that the people can continue on their way without me because I encourage them to follow their own strengths and passion.
My deepest wish is that it will soon become peace throughout the world. That women will be asked to take a seat at the negotiating table and through this peace will be signed again.The female power provides balance in the world.
https://rrehorst.com/
I'm a passionate believer of the power of Appreciative Inquiry to win hearts and enact change. I work in the English NHS as a Continuous Improvement Practitioner, and embed Appreciative Inquiry in all of my training and mentoring.
Kayleigh.Barnett@wwl.nhs.uk
