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Leadership development for real operational work

Build the skills that make good leadership visible.

Understanding what good leadership looks like is not enough. This is where you practise it. Hands-on, practical development built around the real pressures of high-hazard operational roles: for EHS professionals who need to be heard, and for operational leaders who shape culture through every decision they make.

Standalone cohort programmes Embedded in-house development One-to-one coaching
Leaders in a skill development session

Start with something useful.

Practical tools for EHS, operational and technical leaders who want to strengthen influence, build a clearer case and lead important change. No commitment needed.

Assessment

Safety Influencer Score

See where your influence is strongest and where to focus next.

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Guide

Design Your Influence
OHS Edition

Four practical steps to strengthen a real proposal or stakeholder conversation.

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Guide

Design Your Influence
Process Safety Edition

Four practical steps for complex technical and process-safety decisions.

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Guide

Lead Change: What Smart Leaders Do Differently

Ten lessons that create real momentum and help change move people.

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Cohort programmes, in-house development, or one to one.

All programmes are built around real situations from participants' own context. You do not practise hypothetical cases. You work on the actual challenges you are carrying right now.

F.L.O.W. cohort session
F.L.O.W.™ Programme

Design Your Influence

A small cohort works on real proposals from their own context, with live facilitation and peer feedback. You leave with something you can use immediately, not a framework you have to translate later.

Best for EHS professionals, engineers, technical specialists: anyone who depends on influence more than authority
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S.A.F.E. leadership development session
S.A.F.E.™ Programme

Lead Safety from the Inside Out

For operational leaders and managers responsible for teams in high-hazard environments who want to understand their own role in the culture they lead, not just the procedures they enforce.

Best for Site managers, plant managers, team leaders with direct operational accountability
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Leaders applying the C.H.A.N.G.E. framework to a real organisational change
C.H.A.N.G.E.™ Guided Implementation

The C.H.A.N.G.E.™ Accelerator

Flexible guided support for leaders carrying a real organisational change. The six elements are applied directly to the change you are leading through individual or in-company support, usually over three to five months and with a rolling start.

This is not a course. You do not observe change leadership. You practise it, on the work you are actually doing.

Best forSenior EHS leaders, operational leaders and safety directors responsible for embedding a significant change
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One-to-one coaching with Marieke
One-to-one

Leadership coaching

For leaders who need a thinking partner while applying and implementing change in real work. Leadership coaching combines reflection with practical support: preparing decisions and conversations, testing an approach, learning from what happens and adapting the next step.

Best for A specific challenge that is not shifting, a transition, implementation support, or preparation for a high-stakes conversation
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The models behind the work.

F.L.O.W.™ and S.A.F.E.™ are the development frameworks at the heart of the programmes. Built from almost 30 years of operational experience in high-hazard industries: structured practice rooted in how real leadership decisions unfold.

F.L.O.W.™

Design influence with the same rigour as your technical work

Many important proposals are built on strong analysis and still go nowhere. F.L.O.W.™ helps EHS professionals, engineers and technical leaders frame their case clearly, connect it to what decision-makers actually weigh, and build the relationships that move work forward before it reaches the table.

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S.A.F.E.™

Develop leaders who create conditions for people to perform well

What leaders need to do consistently to create conditions in which people can think clearly, contribute openly and perform responsibly. S.A.F.E.™ builds the specific behaviours that determine whether safety is felt as real by the people closest to risk, not just stated in a policy.

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The difference between knowing and being able to do it.

"Go for Marieke. Make sure you have enough time, because there is a lot more she can share. It is not a one-hour session, it is really worth having a full day, a workshop."
Ilias Panagopoulos
Central Safety Team, Amazon
"It presented a framework that was not only easy to follow, but intuitively made sense. It helps you frame yourself in the leader's position and present as a collaborator rather than a dictator."
Chris Lewis
Global Network Leader, NSC Networks
"The F.L.O.W.™ model got me thinking about how to message difficult findings as an opportunity for improvement rather than criticism. Take a jump, give it a go."
Norman Ritchie
Director, vPSI Group
National Safety Council Recorded at a National Safety Council event

Which of these is your situation right now?

Tell me whether you are trying to get something heard or trying to lead something well: we will find the right starting point together.

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