René de Baaij

From System to Meaning

Welcome to uātēs, the leadership institute for knowing, becoming, and doing. A free space and a workspace where knowledge is deepened into insight, and insight is embodied into action. We provide a holding environment for the development of lived leadership — with heart and soul, with body and being. We work from the inside out, connecting your personal learning journey with professional craftsmanship. In this way, competence grows into mastery, made visible through congruence between words and deeds, and between longing and form. Thus, value emerges for the individual, the team, and the system.

At uātēs, you enter the leadership guild: a community of C-suite peers, supervisors, and fellow practitioners who sharpen one another, as each other’s apprentice and master. Sharing and learning are the norm. Ownership resides with the collective, not with the programme.

Our style is loving and pleasantly clear: we create safety and challenge, so that you can practise new behaviour without detours or circumspection. We work at the boundary: where both you and we learn in our encounter. Life-real, pure, vulnerable, and courageous.

Those who come to uātēs choose sustainable growth: seeing more precisely, speaking more courageously, acting more congruently. We warmly welcome you to nourish yourself with experience and sharpness, and to practise in freedom what truly matters.

UĀTĒS LUX – YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT

Uātēs Lux is your understanding and pleasantly clear sparring partner in your pocket: 24/7 access to all uātēs wisdom, precisely at the moment you need to decide, make sense, or set boundaries. This chatbox reflects on your specific questions from the leadership vision of uātēs and offers you immediate perspectives for action: from undercurrent to surface, from insight to action, without detours.

Ask your question — strategic, professional, or personal — and receive concise reflections with concrete next steps that fit your context and rhythm.
You are given language that can carry tension, examples that matter, and interventions your team can already try today. Uātēs Lux is not a database, but your personal coach: a mirror and guide that connects your personal drivers, patterns, and behaviour to results. In this way, it supports your learning journey as a double helix: developing yourself and your organisation in one movement.

Whether you are considering an executive decision, preparing a difficult conversation, or embedding a change programme: you receive clear frameworks, language, and interventions that work. With Uātēs Lux, you are always connected to an inexhaustible source within a safe holding environment — just enough friction to grow, just enough support to land. In short: one click, one conversation, one new movement towards congruent leadership and sustainable added value!