Who we work for

The Nudge Global Impact Challenge is an annual 9-month development program for ninety promising young professionals between the ages of 23 and 33 from all over the world. Interactive online sessions, peer coaching, personal coaching and two intensive face-to-face days are all about leadership, sustainability and impact. These comprehensive topics are turned inside out through a unique approach and in unprecedented forms. The question that the participants gradually answer is: how do you achieve impact, using all your leadership qualities? Ninety friends for life develop the mindset, insights and skills to make a difference and create impact from a burning motivation. The Challenge forms the basis of a network of like-minded, change-minded peers from all over the world. LeaderScope develops and facilitates the Challenge program. We guide the participants in creating more impact on sustainability in their own organization or environment.

SaKS is an organization of fourteen primary schools in Alkmaar and Bergen (North Holland). SaKS is a progressive foundation that believes that education should be much more about tomorrow. And about the day after that. SaKS wants to offer children the basis for a healthy and happy future by giving them the opportunity to ‘become who they are’. Not only for themselves but also for the world in which they live. SaKS formulated this purpose a number of years ago together with LeaderScope. Now SaKS wants to work even more strongly from that intention, so that every colleague, parent and student is aware of it. SaKS has asked LeaderScope to sharpen the visions of the schools, to get the teams involved in the development, and to strengthen collective leadership in the schools and between the schools.

After a long international career, an orthopedic surgeon applies for the chairmanship of the hospital’s works council and is elected. He is 62 years old, has worked all over the world and has led various departments. The chairmanship of the Works Council is a way for him to put the wealth of experience he has gained at the service of the entire organization – a nice end to his career, he thinks.

Yet he soon notices that this new position gives him uncertainty. How do I handle this? How do I relate to the rest of the Works Council, to the Board of Directors, to my colleagues? In a series of coaching sessions, one of our coaches works on his presence and expressiveness to search for the place he wants and can occupy in the hospital. With another coach, he goes more inwardly so that he makes personal and professional blockages that have not been exposed before visible to himself. At the end he indicates that he feels strengthened and finds extra strength to tackle this ‘last job’ with an open mind.

EIT Food is a prominent European initiative in the field of food innovation with the aim of making the entire food system structurally more sustainable, healthier and fairer. One of the biggest challenges: in all kinds of places and positions in the food system, very passionate ‘change agents’ are at work who still have limited ability to find each other and make an impact together.

EIT Food has asked LeaderScope to develop an intensive year-long leadership program that connects people in key positions into a powerful collective. The change agents, innovators and accelerators are encouraged through the leadership program of EIT and LeaderScope to pool their expertise, network and passion to rewrite together ‘the rules and structures’ in the food system.