Leadership & Vision

Nico’s leadership style is energetic, analytical, authentic and goal oriented. He believes that HR creates value when it translates and connects external (labor) market and external and internal organizational developments with internal strategy, leadership behavior and people practices. As a team builder and coach, he focuses on improving leadership quality, strengthening organizational capability and building cultures in which people can perform, grow and collaborate across business units and countries.

A central element in Nico’s approach to leadership development is the concept of the leadership pipeline (see left different steps/stages): every leadership level requires different competencies, behaviors and perspectives. He believes that employees can only move successfully to the next level when they are prepared for the new expectations of that role, rather than being promoted on past performance alone. This helps avoid pressure and bottlenecks in the leadership pipeline and ensures that the organization has capable leaders ready at each stage and every level. For that reason, Nico supports clearly defined leadership programme for every level of leadership, challenge the succession plans on having the right leadership competences on the right level, from leaders of others level to senior executives.

Equally important, he believes organizations need leaders who inspire and create "followers" in a positive sense. Important for  the company and its employees, because while employees may join a company, they often leave because of the quality of their leaders.