Leadership that sticks. Results you can measure.

Executive coaching and transformation for senior leaders navigating complexity, misalignment, or underperformance.

Results always come first

Usually when I come in there is something to fix. Therefore I always start with your KPI’s and overall business results. I need to understand your pain points or ambitious targets.

Together we analyze team behavior and how this impacts KPI’s, before we discuss leadership. We need to understand the systemic and leadership elements that makes the difference.

The coaching and/or facilitation set-up will be next, now that we can relate it to your leadership and your team’s behavior, impacting business results.

Is this for you?

You lead a complex organization where results are not keeping pace with effort
Your team is capable but alignment keeps breaking down
You’re navigating a major transition — restructuring, merger, new leadership
You want a thinking partner who understands operations, not just people
You need someone who can mix practical leadership experience with solid theoretical basis.
- 35+ years experience as international manager and executive.
- Member of the HBR Advisory Council.
- Formal teacher and fully trained co-active coach.

My way of working

I provide authenticity, lived experience and a relentless focus on impact. I see our working together as a partnership designed to drive results: stronger leaders, fully aligned teams, more adaptable, resilient, and with clarity on how to achieve targets.

This is what my customers say:

No-nonsense. High-level. Fast results.
Authentic, battle-tested experience.
You understand the real world we operate in.
You are both a coach and a leader, not a theorist.
You translate strategy into human behavior, immediately actionable and sustainable.
Others work top-down; you work top-down and bottom-up — with teams, shifts, operations.
You’ve done it yourself and shows your 35+ years experience.
Authentic, provocative, partner, team-builder.
You speak our language.

What I leave behind:

I define my success not only by accomplishing the agreed KPI’s and targets. My measure is what I leave behind.

I prefer to work based on ‘co-creation’. Together we know more and will make the process faster, better, organizational-fit and my knowledge and experience will be transferred.

This not only brings the desired business results, it ensures they are sustainable. You can move the needle further from there.

Example of results

Team alignment, reducing wasting time significantly (up-to 40%).
Revised leadership/team operating model, e.g. faster decisions, less & shorter meetings, shared vision and targets.
Observable behavior change (less escalations between team members, held each other accountable, self-steering,…).
Measurable performance increase (e.g. lower failure costs, NPS increase, higher productivity).
Sustainable feedback and accountability culture (no blaming, clear follow-through).
High engagement, reduced absenteeism, better W/L balance & well being).

Testimonials

The leadership team was in crisis mode for almost 12 months. The result of Jan's team coaching: decision speed doubled, escalations reduced by 60% within 90 days. Performance substantially increased in the first half year.

Ops Executive 40 yr old - salomons.coach

Vice President Operations

"We brought Jan in when our leadership team had been stuck for over a year. He worked with us as a team and with each of us individually — and that combination made all the difference. Within 90 days, decisions were faster, escalations dropped, and we finally moved as one. What he left behind wasn't just better results. It was a team that knew how to hold itself accountable."

Chief Human Resources Officer

My work follows a proven, proprietary framework: the 4R Model

Reflect – Reset – Re-Align – Rise™. Systemic diagnosis translated into measurable behavioral change, phase by phase.

Reflect

Diagnosis of patterns and behavior

Reset

Breakthrough ineffective habits

Re-align

Couple behavior to strategic direction

Rise

Sustain measurable results

Partnership

I don’t advise from a distance. I engage where it matters: inside your teams, alongside your leaders, in the real operational context where change has to happen. But for me our way of working must be based on our working relationship. I need to sense your ownership and act based on that. That means sometimes things get ‘ugly’ to get the best results. I guide leaders through real change, visible in team behavior, engagement, and results. Combining deep coaching expertise with operational experience, I focus relentlessly on impact.

This is not theory, but a ‘boots on the ground’ way of working that builds stronger leaders, aligned teams, and organizations that are more adaptable and future-ready.

Your customers will love it.

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Next steps

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