Approach

The consultancy Zeevenhooven Advies is headed and run by Huib Zeevenhooven. Huib has developed a network of like-minded professionals to support him in coaching and professional development programmes.

Huib's interests lie in the dynamics of growth. He believes in the power of compassion to drive connection. His intuitive and associative approach helps him get straight to the heart of the matter and analyse potential opportunities for growth.

An expert in behaviour, Huib has been working as a coach since the late 1980s, and as a strategic advisor since the late 1990s. A broad base of clients, but a distinctive approach: committed, closely involved, yet retaining the perspective of an impartial observer.

Over the past fifteen years, Huib has concentrated on change management processes at executive and senior management levels, combining individual coaching sessions with collective change projects. The focus has mainly been on culture change and leadership development.

Through his extensive experience, Huib has become adept at acknowledging, identifying and facilitating the underlying resistance - whether overt or implicit - that is an inevitable part of change processes. Resistance is necessary to move forward; how that resistance and uncertainty are dealt with is critical.

Regardless of the sector or programme, themes such as personal development, change and learning to take the lead replay in the course of Huib's work. He initially drew inspiration from Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and Robert E. Quinn's seminal works on change. Seasoned over the years by different schools of thought and influences, he has since built up a much broader basis for his unique approach to leadership development.

Today's leader understands the need for investing in personal development and cultivates a high degree of self-awareness. Learns how to strike a balance between power and vulnerability, and between taking charge and letting go. Getting people to follow not because they have to, but because they want to. To this end, and especially in our turbulent times, it is important to find and emanate a sense of calm. For serenity opens the space for authenticity and connection. And that is the crux of it all.

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Ben Janssen

Tax - Partner
Deloitte

As an executive partner, I've brought employees into contact with Huib every so often in the past, when they needed coaching. At the time, it struck me how efficiently Huib got down to work. In just two or three sessions, he managed to achieve very positive results.

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Monica Escutia

Manager Corporate & Marketing Communications
Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe BV

A couple of years ago, I called on Huib's coaching skills to help give me a head start in my new job as marketing manager. In practice, a coach often gets called in when you've hit a roadblock, but I wanted to use coaching as a 'preventive' approach - to explore how to best deploy my communication skills, my energy and my strengths.

'Am I on the right track? How can I make optimal use of my strengths in my job? Which leadership-managerial style suits me best?' These were the questions I wanted to investigate.

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Marco Walhout

Audit Partner
Financial Services

I had been working consecutively for thirty years at one of the Big Four financial services firms when I came across Huib. I'd started as a junior associate all those years ago, 'on call' from the partners and seniors, until I climbed my way up to partnership myself. When I turned 53 and decided I wanted to take a step back, I discovered that while there's a lot of investment in developing a career upwards, the same doesn't hold when you want to 'climb down'. That's why I went in search of an external coach - someone to guide me through this process - and found Huib.

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