It is about efficacy
Leadership as a Practice
The context for leadership in Europe today includes dealing with global forces such as diversity, interdependence and continuous change. To take advantage of these forces, leaders must build adaptive capacity. This requires ongoing practice with deep learning, personal growth and developing new competencies.
ECLP helps cultivate this by using innovative and integrative leadership development practices that generate real impact for you, your team, your organization and community.



What do we offer?
We offer customized hands-on and personal support for leaders to deepen their practice. This can be through individualized coaching, team development or companywide programs. The results are increased leadership effectiveness, greater complexity of awareness and the cultivation of collective adaptive capacity.
ECLP cultivates its own capacity by participating in a global community of thought and practice leadership. We bring together decades of experience in the fields of leadership development, communication and cognitive development to synthesize an innovative brand of work. Along with this, we draw on next generation resources and tools to support your leadership practice.
How do we work?
We begin with you; who are you, what is your situation, needs and desires? We use assessments that enable us to map your journey with you and give you penetrating insights into your impact on others and the core of your own thinking. We apply this to program design and delivery for individual coaching and for scaling this work to teams and organizations.
ECLP participates in research, and knowledge sharing experiences with international scientists in the field. Through this we continually evolve our practice of unfolding the wisdom of leadership.
The range of tools and services are focused on awareness-based leadership development.
ECLP brings an array of relevant tools to unfold the wisdom of leadership:
TLC development system
An award winning, comprehensive system for developing individual and organization wide leadership effectiveness.
TLC certifications
ECLP can offer in house certification of coaches and consultants for organizations wishing to support large scale implementation of TLC tools and methods.
ECLP Academy
ECLP integrates scientific knowledge with skillful learning models and practical designs in creating customized programs for addressing a wide range of challenges.
Lectical assessments
The Lectical Leadership Decision Making Assessment (LDMA) to increase the effectiveness of your decision making skills.
The Leadership Circle offers breakthrough tools and support technologies used by Human Resource and OD professionals as well as independent consultants and coaches for use with their client organizations.
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Lectica is leading an assessment revolution. Their approach combines the learning sciences with diagnostic measurement to enable practitioners to bring measurable development to leadership skills
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Applied Participatory Practices: ECLP offers cutting edge organizational design work that can maximize engagement and self-organization.
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Immunity to Change (ITC): ECLP integrates ITC processes into their work to enable deep, lasting growth for leaders.
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Ted Baartmans
Managing Director and FounderTed has been working in leadership and communication consultancy for two decades, with an immense variety of clients and people. With his geographical and anthropology background, he has been invited to develop and establish leadership projects all over the world. Ted helps companies and people to move past difficult times, manage their image in (inter) national media, and maximise their leadership potential.

Willem Jan Hofmans
Willem Jan is Chief Leadership Coach at HFSC. He has a passion and a proven track record of leading organisations through extensive change, with 25 years of experience as an International Executive. He also has comprehensive coaching experience based on improving leadership effectiveness and business results. Willem Jan has a Doctorate of Business Administration (2015) from Grenoble Ecole de Management and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation. He is fluent in English, French, German and Dutch.

Anne Caspari
Anne is a specialist in change management,for both personal development (coaching, training) and organizational development. Anne focuses on deep transformative processes in all contexts. With an MSc/MPhil in Environmental Development from Hannover University, Anne draws on two decades of experience with complex systems, adaptive pushback and obstacles to self-organization. Anne has worked on projects throughout the EU and worldwide (Syria, South Africa, USA). Integrating different disciplines she has taught MBA/MSc Courses in the fields of Corporate Sustainability, Business Ethics and Leadership.

Johann Entz-von Zerssen
Johann is an executive coach, communication consultant and facilitator who gets energised by working with people and organizations committed to change and a willingness to embrace new ideas. His humour and playfulness enables clients to engage difficult topics without drama, his directness combined with intuition and empathy ensures that his clients stay on course towards their goals. He brings a rich intercultural experience to his work, having lived and worked in various European countries as well as Canada. His experience also extends to Korea, Malaysia, UAE, Kuwait, Israel, Egypt, South Africa and Brasil.

Bernhard Hilmarsen
Bernhard has a passion for improving leadership capabilities in teams and individual executives. His main focus since 2005 has been releasing the potential in teams and individuals by creating both awareness and raising skill levels related to leadership. He works closely with an international network of professionals and is also a Senior Associate of the Minds at Work Institute of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey at Harvard University. He has worked in USA, Brazil, Malaysia, UK, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden with clients in the oil and gas industry in addition to the automotive and shipping sector.

Jonathan Reams
FounderJonathan’s specialism is practicing the cultivation of leadership through the use of awareness based technologies. He engages this passion through consulting, coaching and leadership development programme design and delivery. He also has a position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he teaches and researches leadership development. His doctorate is in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University.

Juliane Reams
Juliane conducts research focused on building the foundations for more robust learning in the fields of leadership and cognitive development. She is involved in the process of enhancing the robustness of a computer system for scoring the cognitive complexity of text responses to open ended questions focused on topics like reflective judgment, self-understanding and leadership decision making. She is also applying this knowledge to debriefing and coaching developmental assessments

Tomas Hancil
Tomas is passionate about personal development of leaders and organizational culture. His interdisciplinary approach (theology, philosophy of science, and developmental psychology) allows him to engage others with a broad range of perspectives. Including ethical, systemic and deeply personal ones. Tomas has experience in working with international teams across Europe as a facilitator and coach in various industries such as automotive, IT, pharma, manufacturing and oil & gas. He works in both English and Czech.

Michael Bieder
Michael Bieder is a certified professional coach and trainer for leadership & team development. He is passionate about helping leaders and their teams thrive. With a business background, Michael gained more than 25 years of international work experience in the corporate world, and he has held a mandate as an internal coach. He draws from a rich intercultural experience working with and leading cross-functional and culturally diverse teams, and he has lived and worked in the US, Greece and Switzerland.

Francisco Baptista
Francisco Baptista specialises in building change and innovation capacity for leaders and their organisations across a wide range of industries such as FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Energy and Public sectors. With an MSc. in Applied Physics from the University of Heidelberg and over 20 years experience as an international change management executive, he is passionate about the human side of change. He is fluent in English, German, French and Portuguese.
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