Testimonials

From the very first session, Aad set the tone with his hands-on, human-centric approach, sparking open exchange, curiosity, and reflection. These qualities are not only shaping the learning environment but also laying the foundation for our client’s leadership development journey.

We work with you, because we perceive you as reliable, trustful, coherent, and always behaving as a role-model. You are authentic and very ‘real’ as well as aligned with our business, not only in thinking but also in the way you behave. You are really listening and do understand the need of our customers. You are also strong enough to challenge. You have perfectly understood our vision and request and you have included our values and behaviours. Furthermore, your expertise is super.

I am working with Aad since 7 years now, both as facilitator and moderator of leadership meetings, change coach and my personal coach. Aad is a real professional with great experience, excellent observation and feedback skills combined with a calm and thoughtful personality. All of the above has been essential for the success of our leadership meetings and creation of an aligned team in times of big change. As my personal coach Aad’s creative questions and thinking behind my points helps me find ‘the question I didn’t ask myself’ to get to the next level.

We work with Aad, because we need him. He brings exceptional knowledge and experience, and it is very easy to work with him. He helps me to grow, and I feel ‘safe’, clearer and surer of what I want to do. It is also great to see how our senior executive team is getting stronger and to see that they approach their teams differently now.

We have retained Aad for a number of executive coaching assignments, because he really understood our needs. The depth and speed of Aad’s understanding of our business and company is unique. There was also a very strong match on values. The feedback I received from our executives, who have been working with Aad, was very positive. There was a lot of trust in the process, his values, the dynamics and his energy. We also appreciate that the process was not ‘over-engineered’. His coaching work is based on conversation supported by the use of some very appropriate tools.

Aad has been a tremendous support in my personal development from a mere line manager to a leader. His approach felt like a partnership, which has enabled me to gather important insights in my functioning and that of my team. More importantly, he has given me the tools to actually do something with these insights. Aad has helped me getting the best out of myself as a leader through his experience, expertise, empathy and truly personal approach.

Aad is an inspiring lecturer and an authentic business leader who is totally in touch with how the business environment and society are changing and what it means for the leaders who must effectively manage people. He gives you a fresh, strategic and practical grasp of the art and science of developing teams that are capable of building up your business in a serious way.

Aad fully engaged me with his extremely relevant and fascinating insights on coaching and leadership in today’s business context. It was exactly what I needed, well structured with international examples and the type of practical exercises you need to really understand and apply any leadership style. I took home a methodology that works and I use it.