I’m René de Baaij, born in 1964 in Nijmegen. I’m married to Marie-José, and together we have four adult children.
In 1988, I started my career at Hyster-Yale, an American multinational, as a trainee and later as a manager. After that, I worked for eight years as a consultant and manager at Capgemini Management Consulting. Since 2005, I’ve been working as an independent advisor specializing in organizational development and change management, leadership and culture, team development, and professional growth.
My original background is in business administration. Additionally, I completed the post-academic program “Guiding Organizational Change” at Sioo, as well as the master’s program “Executive Change Management.” I also completed a coaching certification and obtained a Board Certificate.
As an organizational professional, I have always focused on transformation processes: significant changes within organizations that are strategically important. Over time, I’ve increasingly focused on the role of people — as a group, as a team, and as individuals. I work both nationally and internationally, with large and small organizations, in industry, services, and government.
Together with Sioo, I have delivered numerous in-company programs, and for nearly twenty years, I have been affiliated as a lecturer in change management and as a group facilitator. For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I designed and delivered export development programs in developing countries for fifteen years. In that capacity, I worked with groups of entrepreneurs and government officials to strengthen their capacity to independently develop exports to the EU. This work has taken me to India, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. Nowadays, I work with my colleagues at uātēs on in-company development for senior management.
I’m certified in the use of various psychometric tools. In addition, I have studied and learned to work with a wide range of methods and techniques aimed at the development of people, teams, and organizations. I bring together knowledge and insights from organizational science, change management, social psychology, developmental psychology, analytical psychology, shadow work and bodywork, NLP, and gestalt therapy. In short, I work from a psychodynamic perspective.