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Less and less I call myself ‘Manager’ or ‘Director’ of something. I do so, because such titles do not adequately express my professional ambition, nor what I call my typical contribution to individual, group, organisational or societal transformation processes.At the moment I am just ‘Managing Director’ of my own small company. I have no employees, and, as a consequence, I mainly manage my self, my legal, HR and administrative activities, my links with the tax office, contractors, clients, ICT-suppliers, knowledge resources, you name it. This makes my activities highly networked. I am doing so since 1997. And it still feels pretty good!
I have a strong inclination to move out of the analytical mode (although this phase should never be neglected), and to focus on achieving concrete and effective results. This is also reflected in the name of my company Jonkergouw Creating Solutions, where ‘creating’ has a double meaning: one is to design and invent new things, and the second is to make them alive and come true.
The developmental processes that I engage in are closely related to the ‘Presence’ approach as presented by Senge, Jaworski, Scharmer and Flowers, although we have a slightly different representation of the model for deep transformation.
Dream Developer with the BOLD-Performance Improvement group
‘Dream Developer’ is the actual title that I use and is printed on my BOLD business card. When I hand it over to clients, it creates a sort of grinning smile, as they don’t expect such title with a guy that clearly has the physical characteristics of someone who is over 45. In fact I am 55, partly bald, partly grey haired and I need reading glasses I cannot explain in one sentence what I mean by ‘ dream developer’. At least it refers to the concept of the 5-D-model as we have developed it and that we provide through the BOLD group. This 5-D-model refers to five different areas of human activity that need to be connected, in order to create sustainable results: Drivers (identity, soul), Dreaming (symbolic representations, metaphors), Developing (mental thinking, analysis, planning), Daring (emotions), and Doing (action, performance). The Drivers, Dreaming and Daring areas belong to the world of the informal organisation, or to the subconscious when speaking about individuals The Developing and Doing together form the formal layer of an organisation, or the conscious area of an individual. As ‘Dream Developer’ it is my ambition to help professionals, teams and organisations to explore their formal/informal or conscious/subconscious worlds, and to connect these world in order to create resilience and high performance.
In daily business life, organisations and their leadership often seem to be stuck in the short-term Developing and Doing modes, and to forget to connect with deeper levels of themselves, their employees, company, suppliers and clients: their Drivers, Dreaming and Daring. In the BOLD approach, however, we pay solid attention to touching each singular area but also to the interconnecting of all five dimensions. To grasp the deeper levels of the Drivers we apply the Management Drives approach, which method is related to Spiral Dynamics.
For the Dream Development we frequently use approaches like the visual dialogue or storytelling.
On the basis of the above ideas and ambition I perform professional activities in the following areas:
Designer, Developer and Director of Deep Transformation processes, focusing on the Integrated and Synchronous Development of Business, Organisation and Leadership (the human potential)
I designed and managed programmes for e.g. Unimills, IBO/Freia, VNU/ACNielsen, Randstad, Imtech, Rabobank, CGE&Y, PGGM, Essent, TPG, Riinvest/Kosovo and the Euro-Arab Management School, Granada.
Key in the design of projects is the connecting of conscious and subconscious dimensions and the ambition to strengthen forces at the level of the soul of individuals and organisations, so that they become living organisms and not just complex machines.
Within BOLD we have developed a model for team and community development that supports groups of professionals to develop towards the level of high performance.
Since 2001 I provide personal and team coaching services to senior and young executives, mainly in the profit sector, but also for coachees in the not-for-profit areas. This coaching is provided as
· a stand-alone activity,
· as an integral part of corporate transformation projects,
· for general leadership development programs (De Baak, Noordwijk) or
· during executive career development programs (Essent).
My coaching approach is in the Coaching for Performance tradition of John Whitmore. During 2001-2003 I worked as Program Director with Whitmore’s associates David Whitaker OBE and Sue Slocombe OBE in a 2-year Leadership Development program for 300 executives in the banking sector.
· In 2004 and 2007 I was keynote speaker and instructor at the annual conferences of the Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften (IAS) in Switzerland. IAS is the largest commercial provider of training in coaching, counselling and supervision in Switzerland.
· In 2006 I provided a 2-day workshop on ‘Strategy for Coaches’ for the Institute for Psychotherapy in Moscow, Russia.
The DreamLab
This is a creative working environment that I invented in the 1990ies and that I apply as a breeding place for leadership development, coaching, strategic change, teambuilding, creativity & innovation, knowledge development and organisational transformation. It is in this environment that I feel my role as Dream Developer becomes especially powerful.
The DreamLab (also called the Strategic Management Atelier ®) is a vehicle for visual dialogue, for exploring the world of subconscious/irrational knowledge and a tool for the conversion of implicit into explicit insights. I often combine DreamLab sessions with Yoga, Storytelling, Scripting and Atelier exercises.
Since 1998 I have provided over 100 workshops to a wide variety of companies like e.g. VNU/ACNielsen, Essent, Imtech, NIZO, the Rabobank Group, Habitat, Meander Medical Centre, WMMercer, PGGM, C-Mark, Logica Consulting, Thremen, Nashuatec Academy, Unimills, Hogeschool Avans, Honeywell-Esser, IAS (Switzerland), and to business schools like e.g. IBO (NL), LIFIM (Finland), the Intstitut d’Adminsitration des Entreprises, Aix-en-Provence and Groupe ESC Euromed, Marseille (France), the International Management Institute (Ukraine), the Technical University (Russia), IEDC (Slovenia) and the Piedmont Virginia Community College, Virginia(USA), with groups ranging from one to over one hundred participants.
(International) Strategic Management
I worked as assistant professor for international strategic management at the Open Universiteit (Heerlen, 1990-1998), with a specialisation in European strategybusiness and management.
· Designer, editor and author of a course entitled Strategic Issues for Management in an Integrated European Context.
· Designer and director of the Euro*MBA Programme (1992 – 1997). This blended learning executive MBA programme is strongly focused on management and leadership within a European context and is provided by a consortium of European business schools and universities.
· In 2008 I designed and ran, together with my BOLD-colleague Frans Trommelen, a special program on the subject of ‘Vision-Mission-Strategy’ for Essent Netwerk managers.
European Commission – Distance Learning and e-Learning
· Since 1997 I work as an expert-consultant to the European Commission for the evaluation and reviewing of R&D projects (IP’s) and large European Networks of Excellence (NoE’s) in the field of ICT for Learning and Working. These projects are all funded within the framework of the Commission’s Information Society Technology Programme (4th, 5th, and 6th Framework) and focus on joint academic oriented research.
· From 1992-1994 I was diredtor of a TACIS project in which the distance learning philosophy and practice was trained on an action learning basis to the staff of the business school of the Gazprom/G.Plekhanov Russian Economics Academy in Moscow, Novi Urengoj and Norilsk.
· In the second half of the 1990ies I gave various workshops and lectures on the subject of ‘IT and business education’ in the context of PHARE and TACIS projects in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia.
Experience prior to the 1990-ies
· 1987-1990: Manager of the training consulting unit of the EG-Adviescentrum Zuid-Nederland (Helmond)
· 1986: Sabbatical
o Discovering the Art of Travelling through the World (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia)
o Discovering the Art of Travelling through the Inner Self (Yoga and Meditation)
o Discovering the Art of Painting (Visual Dialogue)
o Discovering the Art of Flying and Falling (Hang Gliding)
o Discovering the Art of Management (General Management – VNO/De Baak)
· 1980-1985: Manager of the Jongeren Advies Centrum, Tilburg
Education
· Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Nijmegen (MSc in 1979);
· General Management with VNO/de Baak (1985/86);
· Certified in Management Drives (2006)
· Apart from these types of formal education I invest in the development and innovation of my competences by arranging time and space for reflection and inner dialogue. I consider ‘everyday life’ to be my most profound lifelong teaching ground.
Honorary Functions
· 1994-1996: Honorary member of the Board of Directors of the Managers Training Centre of the G. Plekhanov Russian Economics Academy
Memberships
· the Foundation for European Leadership (FEL) 2004 - 2008
· the Society for Organisational Learning (SOL) 2005 - current
· the Central and Eastern European Management Association (CEEMAN) 1998 - 2007
· the Nederlandse Orde van BeroepsCoaches (NOBCO) 2008 - current
. the Rhineland Group (a group of academics and consultants focussing on the wide divide between the Anglo-American and the continental European (Rhineland) styles of management, leadership and organisational development. 2006 - current
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