What do our customers tell about us after these first 5 years?

In 1 word : a fountain of energy, encouraging you to think in terms of innovation and creativity without feeling inhibited. 

Johan Geeroms, Directeur COLRUYT

 

Congaz means for me :

Two fantastic ladies with a “creative drive” that is contagious for anyone being near. 
An organisation I will certainly collaborate with again to stimulate innovation in our group.

Géry Dams, Associate Director, Virology Laboratory Operations TIBOTEC

 

Organisations stimulating entrepreneurship all claim that the team and the team dynamics are the most crucial success factors for a startup. 
IBBT turned this theory into practice  thanks to the cooperation with Congaz, and as such has experienced what a good team is, how you compose it, and why they work together efficiently.  You might compare it to a rock band: it is not enough to know that you need an excellent guitar player, drummer and keybord player; you also need to find them, know why each is the best in what he does and above all why they will conquer the charts together.  That’s Congaz!

Frank Gielen, Director Venturing & Incubation, IBBT

 

Congaz makes you look from another, less familiar perspective, and afterwards you regret that you have never done that before.

Wouter MARQUES, Division Director, BRABANTIA S&L Belgium NV

 

To build an organisation from a family business with a team of inspired and creative people, that needs an approach you don’t find in classical management literature.  Everyone was persuaded that there was a need for more structure, more processes, more internal alignment, but the answer to “how much of that” was not easy. Congaz has helped us with the discussions and the gradual introduction of an organisational design, and has created involvement in order to build an organisation ready for the future. For us, Congaz was an inspiring and engaged sparring partner with the correct balance between external input and internal focus.  It was exactly what we needed to make real change.

Boris Vervoordt  CEO AXEL VERVOORDT
Goedele Zwaenepoel

 

Ingrid from Congaz has given us interesting insights in complex and less tangible processes, working conditions and behaviours related to the functioning of our management team, and this in a structured and pleasant way. She has supplied us with some practical tools to significantly improve the collaboration between the individuals in our team.

Mohammed Nafid, CEO QLYTE, Amsterdam

 

Innovation is essential for a biotechnology company such as ours.
Congaz was an important partner to  een belangrijke partner om de innovatiekracht van ons bedrijf aan te scherpen en te stimuleren."

Johan Cardoen, CEO CROPDESIGN - A BASF Company

 

open and open-minded, focused on people ànd organisation, confidence, pragmatic, positive

Hilde Van Croonenburg, Human Resources Director, AMCOR FLEXIBLES

 

In a short but very pleasant and efficient project Ingrid has taught us a lot about ourselves and each other.  Our management team consists of very diverse personalities and the understanding for each other and the collaboration with each other has quickly and seriously improved!  Thank you for that!

Maarten Vandenbroucke, CEO GATEWING

 

Congaz is always a very pleasant partner to work with. They always succeed in creating an open atmosphere in which items can be discussed that are crucial to build strong teams. 

Koen Schrever, Partner STONEFUND

 

Empathic,
A good view on people and organisation and
lots of common sense!

Ria Matthijssens, CEO  M-PRO CONSULT

 

We immediately felt a perfect fit with Ingrid, on a personal level as well as on the scope we wanted to work on.  She quickly understood our business and the needs we had, and had a clear vision on how we could work together.  The result of the collaboration was better than we had expected. 

Marnik D'Hoore, Co-Founder  / Zaakvoerder NETLASH-BSEEN

 

Professional with a strong empathic capability who succeeds in putting a stamp on an organisation and giving it a culture and soul.

Walter Beyers VP Finance USG PEOPLE

 

The image that pops up whenever I hear from you is : always a refreshing and original way to bring new insights and ideas.

Lieve Pennewaert, Human Resources Director J&J

 

Traficon is world market leader in video image processing for traffic analysis.  In order to map the innovative climate within Traficon, Congaz organised an online questionnaire for all employees.  With a limited effort we obtained a very clear image of the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation according to 90% of the personnel.
This allowed us to quickly start a targeted action plan to bring innovation to an even higher level, as this is of paramount importance to us.

Lode Caenepeel, CEO of Traficon

 

Modular manufactures and distributes top architectural lighting.
When we wanted to further professionalize our R&D department, Congaz assisted in mapping the core competencies of the team members in order to take optimal benefit of the complementary profiles.  Lara Donners of Congaz has shown her broad professional HR background combined with a sound sense of pragmatism and a methodology that was very compatible with our R&D community.

Lieven Messiaen, CEO Modular Lighting Instruments

 

After the introduction of Ecodis to the stock exchange in 2007, we have closely collaborated with Ingrid De Clercq of Congaz for the expansion of the company.  In this period I have experienced Ingrid to be a professional with an exceptional drive, who has played a crucial role in the development of the company in its first year on the stock market.  She not only recruited 30 professionals in the short period of 8 months, but also focused on the implementation of an HR strategy and the design of an internal organisation fit for this startup.  The enthusiasm and experience of Ingrid were of great added value to Ecodis, and this has clearly shown in its company culture.

W. Beyers, former CFO Ecodis NV

Something with masks, in the Africa museum .... curious and fascinated as I was, I accepted your invitation for "persona-con-grata" on December, 10, 2009.  It was an exemplary event of how you can create a learning context, lifting the participants out of their classical thinking pattern and offering them new insights through an experience, through intuition.  The impressive setting, the mystical mask exhibition, exploring each other's metaphors and having interesting chats ... a warm memory!  

Bart Neels, advisor business organisation & change dynamics at SIRRIS.

 

Erda is a Belgian startup, active in the sector of renewable energy.
As the composition of the management team is very crucial when launching a new activity, we have asked Congaz and Kaleido to screen the management team members and to make an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.  On team level this give us a clear vision of their compatibilities and possible gaps or danger areas.  This allowed us the draw up an action plan and determine the roles each would take.

Michel Oosterlinck, Director Erda SA, Betrix

 

DELA is specialized in funeral services and their insurance.  As a result of our strategy, realised a.o. by acquisitions of funeral agents, our organisation grows very fast.  We have chosen to install more uniform HR processes but at the same time we want to keep on stimulating entrepreneurship, as it is one of our core values, next to involvement and integrity.  For the introduction of these values it was of utmost importance to choose the right balance between top down and bottom up approach.  As Congaz was a real (sparkling) partner in the development of the concept as well as a hands-on help in the delivery  of the workshops, they have brought this project to a very good end for us. 

Chris Horemans, HRM of Dela

 

In 2007 the Incubator NV Greenbridge of Ostend initiated the project “Start Up Now” to stimulate female entrepreneurship.  Congaz was entrusted with the implementation and execution of the project.  Their drive, efficiency and professionalism have made this project a big success.

Guy Haemers, CEO NV Greenbridge

 

I can really recommend the workshop 'The people dimension of Innovative thinking' organised by Congaz and Verhaert.
It is amazing how the quantity and quality of the ideas rises when you are stimulated.  You become conscious of your passion, waking up the creator in you.  My conviction after the session: ‘Dare to show entrepreneurship, dare to pioneer!’

osararchitects, www.osar.be

 

De Lokeend, 9th of May 2007
A refreshing invitation to think about innovation in a different way.  In a nice setting the hostesses Lara and Ingrid provide a pleasant alternation of information (the book of Tom Kelley), reflection (what does this mean for my organisation) and discussion with a group of interested professionals of different backgrounds.  A concept that definitely deserves to be developed.

Lieve Pennewaert, HR Director Janssen Pharmaceutica, Geel, participant of our MMMmmm session