Sphere-Work,
that's a team full of ambition.
We implement real and sustainable change within companies.
We are Sphere-Work
We implement real and sustainable change within companies. We systematically use our many years of experience in implementing change as executives. Furthermore, we continuously test our methodology against scientific research. This is how we arrive at a recipe for change that works.
Our passionate staff
Our passionate partners
Sphere-Work works with a number of passionate partners whose expertise within their fields further increases our impact with our clients. Discover them below!
Jan Van der Vurst
Jan Van der Vurst is the driving force behind Buro Van der Vurst, which supports individuals and companies in achieving change processes. Jan offers help and inspiration to mobilise stakeholders for your projects, manage yourself as your key stakeholder, and bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
Jan has decades of experience as a trainer and consultant with Belgian and U.S. listed companies in over 30 countries. He has published 6 books on Influence, Stakeholder Management and Personal Leadership. Each has a solid scientific basis and was nourished by his own experience in the field. Jan studied social pedagogy at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained his PhD at the University of Utrecht.
Focus: Stakeholder management, personal leadership
Kris De Schutter
Kris De Schutter is partner in and chairman of the Employment & Benefits practice group in Belgium. He has over 20 years all-round experience in collective and individual employment law, with a particular focus on transformation, especially from a holistic view linked to alternative (flexible) remuneration, restructurings and change processes.
He regularly assists and represents multinational companies with downsizing (including collective dismissals and closure). In this respect, Kris often represents employers in union negotiations. He was involved in many restructurings in transformation schemes to avoid bankruptcy or to ensure profitability. Provide the right solution for his clients is Kris' goal. Whenever dealing with a business issue he seeks for a pragmatic solution that helps one taking the hurdle. For that reason, his clients praise him.
In relation to incentive schemes, Kris a.o. assist clients by implementing employee flexible reward plans (being a trendsetter and having changed employment law in this respect) and in relation to the implementation of all kind of incentive schemes and share (option) plans, he has in depth experience in remuneration schemes in the financial, insurance and fund sector.
Assisting clients on recruitment and dismissals of top managers, in a national and international context, is Kris’ third key focus area.
Kris regularly speaks at conferences, such as Vlerick Business School, and is an author of several articles and opinions in newspapers on dismissals, restructurings, remuneration and flexible reward plans, strikes and other employment law topics.
Clients praise Kris’ unparalleled experience and level of services. One says: "Kris De Schutter is super pragmatic and answers questions in a very clear way that is adapted to the person receiving the message.“ Kris is ranked Band 2 in Chambers Europe and as a Leading Individual by Legal500.
Focus: Employment conditions, restructuring & insolvency
Talentguide
Talentguide is an HR SaaS company that deploys AI for strategic talent management, promoting job mobility within companies and developing customized career paths for employees. Talentguide provides insight into current skills and anticipates future skills needs, both at the organizational level and for individual employees.
This is made possible by an advanced SaaS solution built on the talentguide™ Library – a dynamic database capturing evolving skills in the labor market, using NLP.
Our passionate clients
We are happy to let our passionate customers talk about the impact Sphere-Work has made within their organisations.
Brune
Sphere-Work convinced us with their strong analytical skills. They listened to our challenges, looked at our current context and produced a report with reasoned recommendations based on that. From the beginning, it was clear that Sphere-Work understood very well what our context was and what are the key focus points for us for the future.
They translated this report into a workable plan and guided us through the first year of our transformation plan. They showed that they have a strong knowledge of our business . They were a true sparring partner throughout the project. The team that supported us was diverse and complementary and all of them experts in their fields.
I can therefore only warmly recommend Sphere-Work.
Carina Vignigni, Country Manager Brunel Belgium
Poutrel
Sphere-Work supervised, in an organisation-sensitive way, a merger process of 4 organisations. An important focus was on the involvement and participation of all stakeholders, not least the employees themselves. The quality of the change management expertise and the added value of these consultants 'on board' is beyond dispute.
Strategy, goals and actions were determined in a professional and quick manner. Among other things, a plan of action was drawn up (including timing), co-creative methodologies were put forward to support group processes and sessions were supervised, knowledge was brought in with regard to stakeholder management, a new job house, new decision-making principles and procedures, etc.
All 'deliverables' also met expectations, from the design of a new governance structure, to the preparation of analyses, reports and reports of workshops and meetings, to the drafting of a legal services agreement. There was also a continuous focus on communication about the different steps in the process to all parties.
Moreover, all this was given shape in a tight process direction, with clear decision-making moments for the governing body.
A merger process can only be successful if the 'why' is clear and inspiring. Sphere-Work proved to be the partner to support and strengthen this with knowledge, expertise and the necessary dose of flexibility.
Karen DE CLERCQ - Managing Director POUTREL.
My Way
For our transformation project, we brought in real facilitators with Sphere-Work. The Sphere-Work consultants listen, ask the right questions and challenge us when they discover inconsistencies in our approach. So they listen first and do not immediately propose solutions.
The fact that Sphere-Work listened carefully to us was also reflected, for example, in the fact that the workshop approach of the first management workshop was geared to the Good to Great concept I had put forward. Spot on!
Moreover, as a true strategic partner, Sphere-Work provides open and honest feedback without filters, and that at all levels (to the management committee, the dealers, myself and my manager). An approach we highly appreciate.
Radu Nicodim - Managing Director My Way
Our story
In late 2021, Sphere-Work was founded from the deep belief that supporting change in companies can be done in a better way, more so, needs to be done in a better way. And for 2 reasons:
- The world around us is constantly changing. Companies that stand still have no future. As an organisation, you have to commit to change.
- The quality of consultancy on topics of change, HR and business organisation leaves a lot to be desired.
"Sphere-Work should become thé alternative on the market: a company that facilitates change in a sustainable way through experience and expertise."
Both Bert and Christophe have more than 20 years of experience within HR. They have both literally stood with their feet in the mud: everything you can experience in terms of strategic HR, reorganisations & restructuring, mergers & acquisitions, social relations, remuneration, strategic scenario planning, performance culture, personnel costs & HR data, they have lived through.
Plenty of opportunity to experience first-hand how things should not be done, and how much of the existing consultancy services are often sub-standard: consultants who walk in with fancy models but have never implemented them themselves in a real work environment, who overwhelm an often already unstable organisation only to leave before the change has properly landed.
Sphere-Work takes a different approach. Our experience and expertise, together with a solid theoretical foundation of the methodologies we use, ensure real impact within organisations. We go for sustainable change, which is the trigger for all Sphere-Work employees.
Ready for impact
that really matters?
We are always open to an informal conversation.
Bert Van Rompaey
Functietitel
Bert heef 20 jaar ervaring op het gebied van HR en verandertrajecten, waarvan 14 jaar als lid van Executive Committees in grote organisaties, voornamelijk in de bank- en luchtvaartsector. Bert werkte met en in verschillende culturen (Belgisch, Nederlands, Frans, Duits) en was succesvol in het realiseren van diepgaande & pragmatische veranderingen in die verschillende omgevingen. Het laatste jaar werkte hij voor kleinere bedrijven (bv. de fusie van 4 organisaties met in totaal 150 FTE's, strategie-implementatieproject in een IT-bedrijf van ~1000 FTE's, ...).
Focus: Strategische HR, reorganisaties & herstructureringen, fusies & overnames, sociale relaties, reward, strategische scenarioplanning, prestatiecultuur, personeelskosten & HR-gegevens.
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