As a Leadership & Transformation Consultant, you work with organisations facing fundamental change. A new strategy. An organisation that needs to work together differently. A leadership team that wants to take its next step. Or a transformation in which AI and technology fundamentally change the work.
You work with medium-sized and large, national and international organisations in areas including financial services, healthcare, energy, construction & infrastructure, retail and the public sector. Sometimes you design and lead a multi-year leadership programme for the strategic top of an organisation. Other times you stand alongside an executive team during a major transformation. And sometimes you help an entire organisation learn to lead, decide and collaborate differently. In doing so, you get to the heart of what is really going on and translate the strategic challenge into what it demands of leadership, behaviour, collaboration and the organisation itself. Our conviction is that leadership development never stands on its own. Leadership must contribute to the strategic movement an organisation wants to make.
You are a strategic sparring partner for board members and executive teams, and an architect and leader of large leadership and transformation programmes. You build strong client relationships, spot new opportunities and actively contribute to the further development of our Leadership & Team Development practice.
What you are responsible for
Clients and programmes: You are ultimately responsible for complex leadership and transformation programmes: from understanding the client's question and designing the approach, to the quality of delivery, impact and a strong client relationship.
Strategic advice: You stand alongside board members and executive teams and help them translate strategy into the change needed in organisation, leadership, culture and behaviour.
Executive team development: You help leadership teams become stronger as a collective. You make patterns discussable, bring sharpness where needed, and help teams make better choices and take shared responsibility for the whole.
Lasting impact: An inspiring session is nice, but not enough. You help leaders translate insights into different behaviour, better collaboration, different choices and concrete ways of working, so that change remains visible even after we have left.
Commercial growth: You build relationships that go beyond a single assignment. You spot opportunities, understand what a client truly needs and know how to develop new assignments and long-term partnerships based on content.
Innovation & thought leadership: You are curious about what is changing in organisations, leadership and the world. You have your own perspective, dare to take a position, and translate new developments into propositions, methodologies and thinking that help clients move forward and build our expertise. For example around leadership in transformation, Human-AI leadership, executive team effectiveness and collaboration across boundaries.
Strong teams: You build teams in which people bring out the best in themselves and in each other. You give responsibility, steer on quality, give honest feedback and help colleagues grow.
What you bring
For you, leadership does not stand on its own. You understand how strategy, organisation, leadership and behaviour influence each other, and you know where to intervene to make real change possible.
You:
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have at least 15 years of relevant consulting experience with complex strategy, transformation, organisation and leadership issues;
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are a sharp strategic thinker who quickly gets to the essence and connects the business and human sides of change;
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are a firm yet human sparring partner for board members and executive teams. You ask questions that matter, say what you see, and can create movement when things get tense;
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have experience independently designing and leading large, complex client programmes, and take responsibility for content, relationship and results;
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move easily between strategy, organisational design, leadership, culture and behaviour;
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have your own perspective on leadership and transformation and bring substantive depth on one or more relevant themes, such as strategy execution, AI transformation, culture change, organisation development or executive team effectiveness;
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are a strong facilitator who moves just as easily in a boardroom as in a room of a hundred leaders;
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have commercial drive without ever losing sight of the real client question;
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are a builder who enjoys helping develop new propositions, client relationships, programmes and teams;
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preferably have experience in one or more of our markets and speak and write fluent Dutch and English.
Finally, you recognise yourself in our core values of authenticity, friendship, intensity and playfulness, and feel connected to our higher purpose: Together we build a brighter future. We achieve breakthroughs by inspiring and connecting people.
Do you recognise yourself in this description and are you curious about this role? Then we would be glad to get in touch. We would be happy to receive your CV.
Would you like to learn more before applying? Then feel free to contact us at recruitment@samhoud.com.