Vision | Culture | Leadership
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Why do we exist?
We want your business to thrive. We do this through building a strong vision, culture and leadership. Our specialty is to empower accountability and innovation in your business.
Through our services we help you and your business to overcome your challenges and thrive!
What do we deliver?
Training
Build a new culture in your business for a powerful increase in business performance and healthy relationships
Transformational Leadership –
Tackle the core challenges of your business, create compelling products and services customers want to buy
Value Proposition –
Spot trends and innovate! Identifying points of tension between what people want and what is currently available
Innovation –
Coaching
Build a healthy business culture where relationships thrive and business is blooming
– Leadership coaching
A clear 5-step program to build your high performing team, empowering them to bring your business to a higher level
– Team coaching
Remove personal and organisational blockages to unleash business growth
– Organisational coaching
Consultancy
What is your challenge?
Vision, leadership style, business culture, communication, role clarity, managing conflicts, accountability, partnerships, value proposition, innovation, generational business, high-performing team or policies, processes, systems and procedures?
We can help you and your business to overcome these challenges.
Turnaround
Do you feel pressure from your investors, suppliers, personnel or society? Then you most likely have a short-term focus.
Reduce the pressure in your business by implementing a long-term vision and notice that your business grows in stability and independence. Renew your business goals and create new partnerships.
We offer you a ‘Short-Long Turnaround’ to revamp your business, using our unique toolbox.
Vision
Culture
Leadership
What do customers say about us?
Feedback is very important for us. Here you can find testimonies of our customers.
Call for transformation
Change is happening all around us with an increasing pace.
New technology is booming, reducing the need for human labour. The complexity of the financial systems becomes too much for humans to grasp. Competition is mostly based on price and the focus on productivity is fierce. Many people become burnout.
In this context, we see a new, countercultural, transformational leadership emerging. Leaders who yearn to be real, doing the right thing, connected to their calling in life, storytellers with a heart and mind to change the world into a better place.
Our story
We founded LYDIA Connect in 2018 because we saw multiple crises in business. We want to help you to balance human, social, natural and financial capital. To bring back the deeper purpose of your business.
Click any of below picitures to read more about us and our story.
Tiemen Fahner
CEO
Tiemen Fahner is an entrepreneur and transformational leader who is passionate about empowering people to discover and fully exploit their potential. He has more than 20 years experience as a senior executive and program manager within Shell. He is adept at building organizations and has thorough knowledge of the development of new products, concepts and services. His strength lies in advising teams with the aim of healthy relationships, taking accountability and high performance.
Monique Fahner
Innovation Director
Monique Fahner is an entrepreneur with a heart for economic justice. As a political scientist she found that when politically nothing is possible, entrepreneurs can offer a solution or outcome. She mobilizes and inspires entrepreneurs to bring lasting transformation to society. Her strength lies in innovation, improvisation and perseverance to realize creative solutions in complex situations.
Leadership corner
Enjoy reading our leaderhip thoughts!
Training schedule fall 2020
*News* Our new training schedule for the fall is online! Click here! Do you experience pressure due to the measures surrounding corona, the financial crisis or for other reasons? Then now is a good time to give your company a turnaround! For example, by changing from short to long-term thinking, implementing a new vision, renewing the corporate culture, strengthening leadership, empowering teams...
“How to see this crisis through” or “How to see through this crisis”?
Will my business survive this crisis? How do I continue my business? Are these your questions? We help you to zoom out to the level of vision and purpose in order to innovate or renew yourselves. The next step is creating meaningful partnerships to launch your new business idea. Check out our new turnaround page with free tools to start with!
Never waste a good crisis!
Winston Churchill proved to be a solid leader during the second world war. He said: "Never let a good crisis go to waste". He understood the principle that a crisis also provides opportunities; meant for good, not evil. I want to challenge you during this Covid-19 crisis to really think about the good things that can come out of this. Remember, we, you and me, are in control of making the good...
Good Intentions!
We all know that feeling at 1st of January, after we have done the "lots": eat a lot, stay up a lot, drink a… Enough! We want to improve our life! Recognise it? I do! A lot… So we start with Good Intentions. Dieting, sports and many more plans; being though on ourselves. Around this time, halfway January, the chance is that we have broken some of these Good Intentions already. And by the end of...
Why is our company called LYDIA Connect?
Do you know that feeling? Staying within a confined space where what you need is lacking? It is time to explore the changes you desire in order to be an authentic leader! As a trades person, the woman Lydia from Thyatira who lived around 50 AC decided to move to Philippi, a Roman colony and trade city in Macedonia. The reason for doing that was marketing; the Roman emperor had decided that only...
Updated website! *new services*
The last couple of months we have further developed our training services and launched new coaching services. The key learning after the startup was the need for coaching. The way we have developed the coaching services is to use building blocks from our training services. That way we ensure that we can fulfill our vision. Enjoy browsing the website. More additions will follow later. Have a...
Let the truth be heard!
So many of us daily encounter that truth is not being heard. We as leaders need to build a culture of truth. How do we do that? Lead your people with questions, not with answers. Freely engage in dialog and have debates, don't force anybody. When something dies, conduct an autopsy together and do not blame anybody. Implement a culture where people can raise red flags. You will notice that where...
Always be honest
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. Winston Churchill
Going for Generational Leadership
Leaders, concerned more with their own reputation for personal greatness, often fail to set the company up for success in the next generation. - Jim Collins (adapted) LYDIA Connect says this world is in a leadership crisis: many of today’s leaders care more about themselves and their image than about those who follow them. Our TL-Training addresses this crisis. This unique training empowers...
Try something new!
Today I came across this post. It hit a nerve, sometimes we overstate our professional views. Be open to try something new!
Unavoidable change
"Over time, I have learned two important lessons: 1) all personal feedback is relevant and 2) change seldom occurs until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of changing." - Ford Taylor (Transformational Leadership)
Pioneering
Being a pioneer involves breaking through walls and barriers, you got to have tenacity! But the joy, oh the joy!
