Training · Advisory · Team coaching
For safe, inclusive and successful teams
We help governments, higher education, healthcare and knowledge-intensive organisations with training, advisory and team coaching. Together we build safe and inclusive teams that work well together, even when things get tense.
Evidence-based. Built for lasting impact.
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We help our clients with challenges like these every day. See how we can help you.
Our services
How can we help you?
We help organisations become more inclusive and safer. Through training, advisory and team coaching. Where does your challenge or ambition lie?
Inclusive recruitment & objective selection
→Unconscious bias and vague criteria cost you talent. A structured process finds better candidates.
Active bystander: prevent & stop inappropriate behaviour
→A colleague makes a remark that isn't OK. Our active bystander training teaches you to break that silence and shift the norm.
Inclusive communication
→Communication feels natural until a conflict arises: that's when intentional skill takes over. Practice the conversations that matter to bridge cultural and other differences.
Team coaching & advisory
→Stuck patterns, unspoken frustrations, a lack of trust. Sometimes a team needs a mirror.
Our expertise
Evidence-based, built for lasting impact
How do you ensure people speak up and feel included? How do you attract talent and keep them from leaving? How do you intervene with inappropriate behaviour? We help you answer these questions.
We guide you, and help you work more efficiently, operating from your strengths. This also means we'll have difficult conversations, hold up a mirror, hold you to account and keep probing where things may feel uncomfortable. Working with us isn't always easy, but it's how real change happens.
Recruitment & selection
Inclusive recruitment and objective selection: how do you find the right candidate while staying aware of your own blind spots?
Inclusion
Inclusion emerges from the interplay of structure, policy, processes, communication, behaviour and culture. We help bring them in line.
Social safety
Prevent what can be prevented. Act decisively when it happens anyway. With clear roles for leadership and policy.
Strategy & policy
It all starts with a good decision. How do you make an inclusive decision that involves all the right parties?
The team
Twelve professionals, one mission
Together with a community of trainers, advisors, coaches, researchers and actors, we work on safe and inclusive organisations. Different backgrounds and specialisms, one shared mission.
Annemarie van Iren
co-founder
Michiel Zeegers
co-founder
Rutger Legeland
co-founder
Caroline Pickard
senior trainer
Dr. Deniz Aydemir-Döke
microaggression expert
Sonja el Yandouzi
trainer
Dr. Lianne Mulder
trainer & consultant
Janice Odijk
trainer & consultant
Naoual Azouagh
trainer & coach
Merel Steinweg
trainer & actor
José Montoya
actor
Roland van Veen
actor
Our clients and partners
Who do we work with?
We work extensively with governments, higher education, healthcare and knowledge-intensive organisations. Places where collaboration and communication are essential to good results.
Get started
Half an hour, and you'll know where you stand.
In a no-obligation 30-minute introductory call you'll get answers to three questions: is Human Centric a good fit for your question, what approach would we suggest, and roughly what would a project cost.
Rutger Legeland
Co-founder of Human Centric
“I run our introductory calls. No sales pitch, just an open conversation about what you need.”
Call or message +31 6 53 84 53 39
Not ready for a call yet? Download our Active Bystander hand-out — intervention options for unwanted behaviour (PDF, NL/EN) — or browse the resources.