Grow in your work. Learn with others.
Develop yourself, strengthen your team and move your organisation forward. With practical training, experienced experts and a network that thinks with you.
Grow as a leader. Move your organisation forward.
Benefits for you and your organisation
Greater insight. Clearer choices.
Discover what will move you and your organisation forward. Find direction for your ambitions, challenges and next steps.
Explore more →Stronger leadership in practice
Learn to give clear direction, take responsibility and bring people with you. Apply it directly in your daily work.
Explore more →Better collaboration. Greater ownership.
Make expectations clear and turn intentions into agreements. Build a team whose members support each other and take responsibility.
Explore more →Learn from experts and from each other
Work on your own challenges with experienced experts and fellow participants. Share experiences and discover fresh perspectives.
Explore more →From good plans to visible results
Turn insights into concrete action in the workplace. See development reflected in how you work, collaborate and lead.
Explore more →10 questions. Around 3 minutes. See where your leadership needs attention.
Your result is a self-assessment and a starting point for discussion, rather than a diagnosis.
Where should you start?
Take your next step in leadership
Receive your result by email, followed by two short emails about your development and Leaders of Tomorrow.
From technical specialist to leader. Most people make that leap alone.
Ei Openers connects business owners, successors and managers in engineering and manufacturing. Through practical programmes, support within your business and a network of peers, we build independent leadership, support business succession and bring strategy to life in everyday work.
Are you the manager making that leap? Explore Leaders of Tomorrow A case for development to share with your manager (PDF, Dutch)
We also run dozens of one-to-one sessions each year with leaders and emerging talent from a wide range of businesses.
Does this sound familiar in your business?
Your managers arrive by different routes. One has risen through the ranks and knows the work inside out. Another has a commercial or vocational background and still needs to earn the trust of the shop floor. Both face the same challenge: leadership is a profession in its own right, and no one has shown them how.
- Decisions keep coming back to you that should be made one level down.
- People wait for instructions instead of taking responsibility.
- Departments point at each other instead of working together.
- Your practical specialists talk about technology while the customer is thinking about value and cost.
- Good people are leaving, and replacements are hard to find.
- Your successor has been given responsibility but has yet to earn their place on the shop floor.
These signals call for attention to leadership, collaboration and clear decisions. The scan helps you choose where to start.
Perhaps you recognise these situations.
You do not have to do it alone
Leadership can become lonelier as you rise. Nobody tells you that beforehand.
As a specialist, you had colleagues doing the same job. As a manager, you can feel more isolated: you cannot share everything with your team or your directors, and people at home may not fully understand either.
Ei Openers gives you the peers you have been missing.
“I thought I had to work it all out alone. At Ei Openers, I discovered that everyone in the group was facing the same thing. We had just never said it out loud.”
Leaders of Tomorrow participant, anonymous by request
Culture is what you allow every day
Culture is shaped by what people see happening: what is rewarded, what is ignored and which behaviour is challenged. Leaders set that standard every day, consciously or unconsciously. A poster of company values cannot do that work for them.
What an internal programme cannot offer
Sitting beside someone facing the same challenge in another business, with no stake in your internal decisions, offers something an internal academy or mentor cannot. That is why six of the nine programme days take place at businesses in our network, followed by a networking event. Your people gain access to places they would rarely see and bring back ideas that work for you.
Explore our networking events Challenge, insight, action: our method
Results from practice
See in 57 seconds how development, connection and responsibility come together at Mammoet.
Mammoet
Through Leaders of Tomorrow, Bram van Stiphout developed his ability to lead across departments. His progress became visible in the workplace and helped him earn promotion to department manager.
Been Hydrauliek
JanJohan Kamstra took over the business and grew from 4 to 14 employees in three years. Ei Openers served as his regular sounding board, helping him maintain focus and bring his people with him.
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A conversation about what is happening in your business and where we could add value. You will hear from us within two working days.
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