Herman van Herterijck

Co-founder tèn company

After a long career as a top executive in the fast-moving goods industry,
Herman is now active as a non-executive director and advisor at various
companies, including multinationals, SMEs and start-ups.

He has a strong track record of revitalizing companies, successfully taking them
to the next step on their development roadmap. Building self-managing
entrepreneurial teams and coaching business leaders in fast changing
environments is one of his key strengths. As a charismatic leader, he
understands the art of getting the best out of people and their teams and
helping them grow together with their business.

Having seen too many business leaders struggle to realize their strategic plans
and fail to achieve their strategic objectives, Herman has developed a very
pragmatic methodology based on his many years of experience, called
Strategy-Into-Action (SIA). SIA is a very practical method to concretely
translate strategies into successful action. The method does not require any
complicated processes. On the contrary, it is based on simple logic, reflected in
a clear step-by-step approach, enriched also with many useful management
tools.

The SIA manual, as Herman calls it, has been recently published*. It is not just
another book about developing a strategy. On the contrary, the SIA approach
starts with business strategy as a foundation and then focuses on helping

leaders and their teams to effectively translate their strategy into concrete
actions and orchestrate and monitor execution across the entire company.

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Strategy-in-Action (SIA) is a very practical method for Strategy Execution, that

allows you to:

Easily translate your strategy into clear priorities and actions
Achieve your goals year after year
Stimulate continuous improvements and make step-changes
Monitor and adjust your progress in real time
Form driven and self-leading teams
Stimulate entrepreneurship at all levels within the company
Promote inclusivity through true involvement of all employees
Create a healthy interactive corporate culture
And last but not least keeps everyone fully focused on your customers every day

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"Herman has been coaching me for the last year and a half. He has successfully translated their behavioral coaching model into practical tips and recommendations for a specialized legal area which was completely new to him.

Their method relying on “learning by doing” has delivered outstanding results. tèn company's coaching has enabled me to be aware and make use of different leadership styles, to improve my communication and persuasion skills, to enhance my executive presence and credibility, and ultimately to get promoted.

Herman is currently coaching me on my new role as a people manager in charge of a multi-cultural team spread over the world, so as to make my career transition a success. On top of that, Herman is focusing on my personal development to enable me to achieve the challenging work-life harmony. I would definitely recommend Herman as an exceptional coach."

January 2014
Caroline Louveaux
Senior Managing Counsel Mastercard Europe

"tèn company (coach: Herman van Herterijck) has provided me with a structured approach, an excellent personal insight and a continuous support to make my career transition a fantastic development opportunity.

I have learned a lot, built self-confidence and been able to choose among several job offers. I would certainly recommend tèn company as a professional career transition partner. Thank you."

Cedric Renaud
Supply Chain Director - EMERSON

“Thanks Herman for navigating me through a difficult period in my personal life. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience and for challenging me to be more aware of my own skills and talents”

Referral from Chee Hong Lai
Marketing Manager Lyondellbasell

"Herman, with a broad experience in executive missions and a lot of emotional intelligence, coached me and my teams and took us through a fundamental change process. It really gives me a good feeling to observe that already now (only a few months after the kick off), people feel really challenged as they noticeably take up more responsibility with a step change in their leadership. I have no doubt that this new way of working together will lead to stronger performances of our brands in the Belux market and that it forms a solid basis to reach our ambitious mission 2015."

Koen Van Hout Managing Director Mercedes-Benz Cars Belux Brussels, 15 October 2010

"Herman has handled executive coaching and 360 assignents with a high degree of professionalism and sensitivity. His has provided our business unit leaders with practical tips and tools to increase their effectiveness - Herman's own prior experience as a business leader clearly differents him from the more traditional HR type coaches/consultants."

Chirfi Guindo, Managing Director MSD-SheringPlough-Organon

“Herman is a well experienced coach with lot's of business and human experience. He helped me a lot in:

identifying myself objectively including strengths and weaknesses
indentifying my long and short terms goals and ambitions
continuously keep on developing myself
broadening my ideas and thoughts
broadening my network

He is a big help during this challenging period and a tough, but nice person to work with. I do really recommend him!”

Frank Verschueren, CFO @ Owens Corning

"Herman van Herterijck is a sharp observer who also has the ability to adapt quickly into the world of non- CEO’s and non-CFO’s. He has integrated his business knowledge, experience and personality without a problem into my world and taught me how to handle conflicts and how to achieve my goals in a non-hierarchical world of medical professionals. Friendly, straight and persuasive but above all: he is good company."

Dr. R.J.Th.J. Welten MD PhD, Vascular Surgeon Atrium Medical Center Heerlen, The Netherlands

‘Herman helped me tremendously in my search for a good start from my current private and professional situation towards my future ideal ambition. He succeeded in getting visible what I really want and why I want it. The final result was a very clear pragmatic” development passport” based on my personal values, ambition and vision. Herman challenged me wherever possible: you do not have a chance to make any statement about yourself which is not fully supported by consistent evidence. In the end I was much better aware of my present capabilities and enriched with a clear development plan on as well my skills as my competencies.”

Harald Werner, CFO HP-Benelux

“Having worked for Herman in different positions I have always been impressed about his in depth analysis of the current situation on one hand and his creative thinking in bringing the business forward on the other. This results in inspiring discussions in tune with current reality and more importantly in a highly committed team realising stretching goals.”

Jules Noten, CEO Balta International

“I have come to known Herman as a dedicated, inspiring senior leader for our Foodservice Business. He is a genuine leader with a clear vision to enhance the business performance in every aspect. One of the key strengths of Herman is the ability to connect to people from every level while being a dedicated leader with clear goals. If you ever have any doubt in relying on Herman's expertise please feel free to contact me so you can hear first hand.”

Tim van Wingerden, European Finance Manager, Unilever