Testimonials Leadership Journeys

NUMBER OF EXPERIENCES OF PARTICIPANTS TRAVELING ON OUR PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP:

Judged by the participants below on all program components, with an average of at least 8.5 and a maximum of 10+ on all program components.

Morten Petersen, Director Innovation & Sustainability Royal Auping
"It's more than leadership, it's personal insights. To be a better version of yourself."


Sven Bogaerts, Business Unit Manager Real Estate Hasco (Belgium) 
 "A unique journey through yourself and your functioning."


Ben van de Scheur, Global Ambassador i-Team Professional
"An intensive program in which I was challenged to evaluate what my leadership path is and how I want to continue it to a maximum impact. My fellow participants on the journey, the peace and ruggedness of nature and the Berg & Partners team were great inspiration and mirrors."


Tijn van Elderen, CEO BRABANTIA
"For Peace, Space and Inspiration: Leadership Expedition Berg & Partners!"


Robert van Boldrik, Managing Director VB GROEP
“An experience you can only talk about when you have been there! Why do you do things the way you do them every day and why do things sometimes go differently than you intended them to? The management program developed by Berg & Partners provides you with the insights to answer these questions. A nice concrete and practical management program with a healthy mix of learning, performing and enjoying. In addition, there is great added value in learning from and with each other in a safe environment with a great group of "peers". Thanks again for this great experience, highly recommended for any entrepreneur! ”


Koen van Hooft, Production Director Agio Cigars
"An enrichment for my leadership and an opportunity to rethink what I want in life.'


Mandy van der Zalm, Managing Director Public Business Services & Construction at AON Risk Solutions
"The Leadership Expedition Scotland Highlands 2017 was an educational and unique experience. The desolate environment, the qualities that participants and the Berg & Partners team brought with them came together in the sophisticated program. At the end, all the different ingredients and program components fell like a puzzle. Because the bar is set high, it is more than worth your valuable time investment because you return home with urgent concrete points and a safety net to ensure that these points will also be carried out."


Jan-Joost Bosman, CEO Koninklijke Auping
"I experienced the expedition as a very personal approach that actually leads to better self-insight and deepening."


Floor Vossen, Director Helichem B.V.
"A special, beautiful and intense journey. Everyone has their own story and comes out of the journey richer. You get to know yourself very well. I have been able to take nice next steps in my development."


Maurits van der Laken, Founder & Owner Partnertec B.V.
"A turning point and a revelation!"


Trudy Kunnen, Director Quality and Regulatory, PHILIPS Healthcare
"A present to myself. Beautiful insights again! It's all right and there is so much more... "


Jean-Pierre Wuytack, CEO VANDERSANDEN GROUP (Belgium)
"This Berg & Partners management training was framed in a top environment. The training itself is very varied with indoor and outdoor activities and very in-depth. The program has partly confronted me with myself, but above all brought deeper insights "who I am" and "what steps I should take", both to inner expansion and to better leadership. In short: a wonderful experience under the expert guidance of top trainers!"


Patrick Geerts, Managing Director MTA B.V.
"I experienced the expedition as a valuable and inspiring event. The program, the peace and space in combination with the diversity of entrepreneurs have offered me the reflection to really take a break and to further implement our next step. A beautiful initiative that I personally would not have wanted to miss. My compliments to the Berg & Partners team for the implementation and guidance and as well as thanks to the group for being allowed to travel with these passionate and inspiring entrepreneurs."


Eefje van Breemen, Director Client Success Studyportals
"It is a beautiful, inspiring journey in which you can 'fill up' nicely for your leadership. Perfect environment to open up and plan for next steps. With high quality coaching and a group that offers you new perspectives."


Kristof Nagels, Business Unit Manager Hasco Invest (België)
"Unique in its form. Effective in creating a journey, full of new insights and opportunities."


Martin de Jong, Insurance Director DELA
"Unique experience to make a nice journey inside."


Lars Scheepjens, Chief Operating Officer bij Arcelor Mittal
"A really good inspiring journey, it brought me a lot! Many thanks to Berg & Partners team!"


Rien van de Post, VP Strategic Planning Océ
"An inspiring journey with a good rhythm and a lot of variety; individual & group processes, inside & outside, stillness and acceleration, together & separately, acquiring insights & taking actions. In short, a powerful and mutually reinforcing management program that deeply supports me has brought insights. "


Ann Simons, De Cronos Groep (Belgium)
"The journey allows you to embrace your feelings so that you can take a conscious next step towards yourself, who you really are. The program makes the connection between feeling and ratio and ensures that you are empowered. "


Wouter Bezemer, Managing Director Huybregts Relou in Eindhoven
"Left home uncomfortably and came home as a group of friends. Great to experience what impact taking a moment to slow down has on the person you are. Really take a moment (allow yourself) to work out your next steps. Top experience!"


David Delellio, BU Manager Comfort Energy (Belgium)
"Phenomenal, there are no words for what this journey has brought me. Great insights both business and private! I have followed many courses but none have taken me to the core, fantastic!"


Willemien Boot, CFO Koninklijke Auping
"Take a moment and get personal insights in a safe way, where the beautiful nature and focus on fitness helped a lot."


Ronald Theunissen, Partner Notariskantoor Theunissen
"For me one of the most beautiful things I have ever done for just for me! The setting, the coherence in the group, the accompanying team, the program: very special!"


Marc Pouwels, Client Director AON Risk Solutions
"Inspiring, confrontational, educational. The beginning of an even brighter future."


Erik Vannisselroy, Partner TRC Advocaten
"A unique experience in a unique environment. Getting to know who you are from the start, together with a group of like-minded people. An educational journey that I would not have wanted to miss."


Brian Gajadhar, Director Technical Operations HELIOX
"This is really a journey to the inner you. You learn so much about who you are that you face your future with confidence and certainty."


Ivo van Riel, Director Stichting Het Driespan Koraal
"There is no better way to come up with a personal development plan. Thank you all for the input, I wish this to everyone!"


Edgar van Leest, Director & Founder Strategy Unit
"The special thing about this leadership expedition is the journey inside, to the core of your qualities and development points. You will make this journey with travel companions, in the liberating environment of the Scottish Highlands."


Gard Stals, Director Vastgoed Mobion Group
"What a special trip! A trip where you climb from the deepest valley to the highest peak from which you have the most beautiful views."


Rieny Rijnen, CEO Topic Embedded Systems
"A trip that has made me realize that it is ok to exchange the rush we are into every day for rest while you do not lose speed."


Nicky van Westenbrugge, Owner Hotel Parkzicht & Thym by Parkzicht
"It is fantastic to experience this. Many new insights, the right questions and guidance. Very confrontational. A lot of exercise, delicious food. And great that we were two female participants!"


Sander van Doorn, Member of the board Huybregts Relou
"Beautiful, educational rollercoaster. Intense polite, but also a lot of laughs. Not only have I met great people, but it's also very valuable for my career!"


Walter Arkesteijn, owner / CTO Innofaith
"A journey that you would wish everyone else to have!"


Lex van der Zandt, Director Studio van der Zandt
"Wow, wow, wow! The journey inside, with beautiful people around you, can truly be called an intimate world trip! Thank you for that!"


Lone Linssen, Director regio Parkstad, Koraal Groep
"A unique experience in the quest to use your own leadership. Great coaching and a wonderful present for myself!"


Stefan Ackermans, Concerncontroller Koraal
"A beautiful and educational experience in a beautiful location. Supported by good guidance and a great deal of respect towards each other, I acquired new insights and took the next steps in my leadership. Really great!"


Bart van Winkel, member Boardgroup VANDERSANDEN GROUP (Belgium)
"The Leadership expedition is a formula that works and for me really has had an impact. I was able to really dwell on my own leadership questions in an inspiring environment. There was a lot of interaction with fellow entrepreneurs, which provided personal added value. There was professional guidance. They provide plenty of insights, stimulate and unburden you."


Joost Tenback, Director TENBACK PROJECTEN
"Plenty of room for rest and perspective in an inspiring group, positively critical and challenging! Under the professional guidance of Berg & Partners, mentally and physically challenged! With concrete plans and fresh ideas, return home on the 5th day. Highly recommended!"


Joran van Aart, COO STUDYPORTALS
"The leadership expedition is a great and impactful experience for the following 3 reasons: 

•  A top team of sharp, confrontational but also confidence-building leadership coaches. Strong in both theory and practice; 
• A great group of participants, very experienced and with diverse backgrounds. Because of this a lot of top intervision moments; 
• A very good program, full of new and sometimes confronting insights. In addition, enough peace and space to let it descend and convert it into a concrete action plan so that real results are achieved! 
  
• The wonderfully inspiring environment has also had its function these days! In short, more than worth the investment!"

Armand Baas Becking, Director Intermediair bij Coöperatie DELA
"The daily routine of the modern manager is characterized by running fast and setting high standards. The intensive leadership program of Berg & Partners offers a pleasant stop to charge the battery and reflect on personal and business goals. A great experience that provides new insights and friends."


Ralph van Iersel, Managing Director DANVO BAKERIES
"Thank you Team Berg & Partners! What you get loose in a few days in a group is special, I have never experienced this before. The combination between physical and mental exertion and relaxation, in a very inspiring environment, makes these days special. I enjoyed and look back on the topics discussed daily, it has brought me a lot personally!"


Aswin Linden, Director Development and Manufacturing bij HELIOX
"Super experience, recommended to everyone!"


Joris van der Waart, Chief Marketing Officer CM TELECOM
"Taking a step back for a minute. Looking at yourself and your organization from a different perspective. Not working, but working on yourself. Gaining new insights. Growing, as a person. And with that as a professional. The Leadership Expedition of Berg & Partners offers it all. In an impressively beautiful environment you can completely separate yourself from everything. Everything but really everything is taken care of down to the last detail. A beautiful location, warm hospitality, the necessary movement and a solid, well thought-out substantive program brought by experienced supervisors. I also experienced the input of the other participants as extremely pleasant and valuable. In short: a valuable experience with a lasting effect."


Wim Swaak, Director of Region MAASVELD KORAAL GROEP
"The expedition, 'accelerate by slowing down', yes it works! In a beautiful setting, at the foot of Mont-Blanc, free from all worries, working together with trainers and like-minded people on leadership questions and your next step. Appealing, stimulating, inspiring, groundbreaking and thorough. Both the group sessions and the one-on-one sessions give you a good insight into your own actions and behavior. Partly thanks to the unique composition of the group, this expedition, which was perfectly organized, is more than a success for me confidently on to the next step!"

Peter van der Pas, Director ING PRIVATE BANKING
"It was great how complementary we were as a team of entrepreneurs and corporates, this promoted learning from each other was certainly  very inspiring. Our Berg & Partners coaches were also very complementary: in changing roles, one was confrontational, the other complimented and challenged and the third observed incredibly sharply. Very educational, good atmosphere and by slowing down or even braking you create overview which results in insight."

Marcel Figge, Director SENTECH
"I would like to thank you again for a fantastic experience last week. I am still bursting with energy and I think it is fantastic to come to such beautiful insights only by asking the right questions and the right facilitation (read program). Without knowing program in advance to the finesse and to surrender (rely on) to your expertise has given me the insight that it will be okay. Fine detail is that it was taken care of down to the last detail. The program was great."

Frank Koole, Manager Finance VB Groep
"Very beautiful and valuable. Gives a lot of insight into myself and my leadership. This was already there, but it comes out and becomes visible. From here nice steps can be taken. Thanks Ilse, Toine, Marcel and Wilbert."

Ivonne Freriks, International Sales Manager HABUFA Meubelen
"I started open minded because I believe that regular reflection and reflection of your own work is always good. To be able to experience such a process with "like-minded people" was a beautiful, inspiring experience. The group dynamic was well, it is an intensive program but there is also a lot of laughs. The environment is unique, an environment full of peace and quiet with beautiful views. Everyone has similar leadership issues, all with their own accents. The feedback from supervisors and participants that you know so briefly is striking. It gave me great insights again."

Michiel-Bastiaan Kerskes, CCO Smart Clinical Products BV
"Working on your leadership qualities in an 'amazing' environment. Where real steps are taken towards the genuine membership of your leadership."

Simon Sants, Managing Director JASNO Shutters
"Participation in this expedition, in a very special and inspiring location, has brought me to personal insights that I could not previously identify as such. Because I now know better how my leadership comes across to others and I am aware of it, I can do it better dosed. It was an eye opener."

Stefan Suy, Partner JOANKNECHT & VAN ZELST
"I experienced the journey to Chamonix as valuable. Being away from my environment, in combination with the good guidance from the Berg & Partners team, contributed significantly to the fact that I could also take the rest to think, about the next step in my own development and that of my organization. Sharing experiences with fellow entrepreneurs and the good discussions about this, have given me new insights that I will take into account in my further development."

Mike Krol, Managing Director TAJIMA EUROPE
"An expedition to remember! The combination of a fantastic location and a professional Berg & Partners team ensures that you get the peace of mind to think about your next steps. The setting with fellow entrepreneurs is also an enrichment. There is a great diversity of participants, you will find sparring partners in many areas that broaden your scope. My thanks to the Berg & Partners team and all fellow entrepreneurs for the inspiring journey."

John van Helden, Director YOOKR
"Being together with like-minded people provides a fascinating set of questions and answers about yourself, the other participants, your functioning at home and at work. Where you think you have to decide many things with your head (quickly) on a daily basis, you will learn here that rest and listen to your heart also contribute to a stronger “I.” You get tools that contribute to doing this even better. I am especially happy that I can learn again and when I start the day with “putting my feet solid to the ground”, identifying a number of physical exercises and the importance of the activities of the day, I notice that I can easily handle the day. I am going to show myself and that is my greatest challenge!"

Paul den Ronden, Director PROLEASE
"In the first place, the leadership expedition gave me peace in a pleasant, safe environment in the middle of the Highlands, far from civilization. Because of this environment and the group dynamics, I have come to new / different insights. What I find really important, what am I going to change and how am I going to do that?"