“In the temping business, changes occur at a fast pace with many ups and downs. As an agent, you’re constantly at the forefront of those changes and at the same time you can’t lose sight of the human aspect. During the ups, and certainly the downs, you have to be forward-looking. We need our street skills on a daily basis,” says Jan Verbeke and Véronique Van de Peer from the temping agency Synergie Belgium. They have three keywords for the StreetwiZe trainings: innovative, inspiring and eye-opening.

StreetwiZe coached the newly-composed employment agency SD Worx Staffing Solutions towards a shared company culture and a clear identity. All 480 employees were on board. “We wanted to avoid the ivory tower by all means”, HR-director Hanna Zijlstra says.

How do you make yourself attractive to young talent and give those new employees a boost at the same time? Laura Antonacci explains how StreetwiZe helps AG's young IT talent to (re)discover their soft skills.

“The StreetwiZe workshops always arrived at the right time in our organisational change. That made a world of difference.“ Priya Mouttou, HR-manager at Amadeus Benelux explains how StreetwiZe facilitated the transition to a matrix organisation as well as an international talent community.

"We wanted to clarify who we are as a school and where we want to go. The goal was to build a clear platform from which we can make renewed school together." Teachers Eva Lamon and Kenneth Labiau talk about StreetwiZe coaching on their way to creating a new mission and vision for their school.

“The stories of street children put everyday events in perspective” quotes Stefaan Deneef from Coca Cola European Partners in Ghent. Together with his colleagues Nicolas Vaninbroukx and Steven Vanderstraeten, he mentions their StreetwiZe programme.

“In the temping business, changes occur at a fast pace with many ups and downs. As an agent, you’re constantly at the forefront of those changes and at the same time you can’t lose sight of the human aspect. During the ups, and certainly the downs, you have to be forward-looking. We need our street skills on a daily basis,” says Jan Verbeke and Véronique Van de Peer from the temping agency Synergie Belgium. They have three keywords for the StreetwiZe trainings: innovative, inspiring and eye-opening.

"I learnt a lot about empathy and I have realised how lucky I am,” says Konrad Przemek. Konrad is Country Commercial Manager at Vandemoortele. The group of Vandemoortele leaders has just finished its StreetwiZe expedition at Campus Ruiselede of community institution De Zande. De Zande hosts youngsters who have committed a crime or who suffer from a complex or difficult family situation. The expedition members have to complete a challenging assignment: develop a new educational game with the youngsters that fits their living environment and that can be used on the mobile school afterwards.

“The purpose of StreetwiZe • Mobile School and our purpose are the same: to actively support people and organisations in their growth”, say CEO Peter Verschelden and Project Lead Sally Strijbos of Moore Stephens Belgium, an accountancy and consulting company. Funnily enough, the link between StreetwiZe and Moore Stephens Belgium started with a competition.

“What I really appreciate about the StreetwiZe-training is the way in which our coaches, Hans and Eric, take our context as a starting point and totally empathise with it. Our employees can immediately apply what they learn,” says Mieke Pareyn, HRTeam Leader at Scania Parts Logistics in Opglabbeek.

How can you bring alive one culture in a large local governmental structure? By people-to-people dialogues, by inspiring and by showing the positive side of change, step by step. StreetwiZe developed a cultural change trajectory for 10,000 employees of the City of Ghent and its Public Centre of Social Welfare (OCMW). City Secretary Mieke Hullebroeck and HR-project leader Kristof Cazaerck relate…

"The way StreetwiZe organises their workshops forces employees to step out of their daily routine. After a year collaborating with StreetwiZe, our people take initiative, responsibility and ownership." Ward Dejaegher from AHOVOKS reflects on a year-long StreetwiZe experience.