For impact For success
For generations
We help you take growth steps. Get the most out of your potential. Make strategies that are future-proof.
Navigating change is top sport
Caracter enriches and strengthens your strategic choices. Today, tomorrow and 10 years from now.
In a world in reorganization, we provide the clarity and direction you need as an organization. We build future-proof business strategies and growth plans. We translate challenges into opportunities and break through boundaries that stand in the way of growth. As boosters of success inspire you to push boundaries and break taboos.
Our vision for growth
Growth is good. Growth is healthy. But not at any cost. Growing responsibly means making smart choices. It means making gains without losing values.
Smart choices
Growth is necessary to make companies stronger, develop teams and serve customers better.
No compromises
For us, growth is a strategy: purposeful, sustainable and future-proof. We show that smart choices lead to more impact and more success.
Growth and impact can
We, Caracter, do not allow ourselves to be captured by thinking that growth is bad. That is a limited, one-dimensional view. Growth and sustainability are mutually reinforcing, provided you get it right.
Our guidance, wherever you stand in the process
Now: strengthening your foundation
optimizing performance growth potential charted
strategic make choices
collaboration further development inspiration and enrich
Bridge: ready for the next step
forward-looking strategy
scenario planning
future exploration
all stakeholders on board
Future: clear direction
(macro) trends
clear vision for the future
clear roadmap
Wherever you stand, we'll help you navigate
Caracter enriches and strengthens your choices and decision-making.
Now
The delusion of the day rules. You have an urgent issue or challenge that would rather be solved or under control today than tomorrow. This could be about optimizing performance, growth potential expose (business development), strategic make choices or a collaboration continue to develop or secure. Possibly you just want to inspired and be enriched to arrive at better choices.
Transition
You have decided that you want and need to take the next step to future-proof your organization or transfer a healthy business. You need to provide insights to make sustainable strategic choices, sound reasoning and a plan of action. You realize that this is the moment when you lay the foundation for both the now and the future. With a future-oriented strategy, scenario planning, strategic exploration, a clear roadmap and all stakeholders on board.
Future
You explore the future, letting all the developments and (macro) trends on you. For this you take a break from the delusion of the day. Because you realize that it is necessary, with a clear mind, to take a vision for the future to develop. Which will provide guidance and direction in the now.
A clear dot on the horizon gives direction
Bowing to a healthy and future-proof course also requires action in the now.
With our Potential Mapping Journey™ program, we get to work with the dot on the horizon and the strategic issues of today. We bridge the gap between the now and the future. We make sure you are and stay relevant. Map your full potential and navigate you from creation to realization with a clear roadmap.
A clear dot on the horizon gives direction
Bowing to a healthy and future-proof organization requires getting the basics right, with action in the now. We invite you to take a break from the delusion of the day.
Guidance & advice
Boardroom sessions
Inspiration & co-creation
Keynotes
Unique method focused on business, people & stakeholders
We use this unique B x M x S method to ensure that your potential and performance are upgraded. With all stakeholders on board, we bridge the gap between the current situation and a future-proof and generation-connecting organization. Our business is all about the connection and resilience of the Company, the People and other Stakeholders. This makes us sustainably successful.
Our solutions
Depending on the issue or stage you are in, we guide, inspire or advise on your strategic growth issues.
1-day Experience (short and sweet)
5-day Sprint (concrete outline).
8-week Journey (in-depth)
Key questions
The world is changing rapidly, and organizations must not only anticipate this, but also act on it immediately. At the same time, it is important not to get caught up in the hectic pace of the moment, but to balance this with a clear vision of the future. Caracter for Impact helps your organization with this balance, by taking realistic, strategic steps that are valuable both for now and for the future.
For deciannia we have been working continuously to optimize our methodology with which we do what we are known for: connect stakeholders, collaborations, internal and external optimally and get them involved in the process to make goals and strategy sustainably successful.
In addition to our BxMxS method, our 8Q Method™ gives direction and enriches your awareness and vision. A personal and gamified approach. We engage stakeholders, set clear contours and sharpen. With new insights, best practices and a worldly vision, we guide you to long-term success. This way we respond to what is needed now, while preparing you for what the future demands.
A point on the horizon offers direction. It is not a fixed end goal, but a common compass that inspires people and keeps them engaged. This is crucial, because without direction, employees often lose themselves in the delusion of the day. At the same time, this does not mean that we fix everything for ten years-it is instead a flexible, inspiring guide. This allows us to be both strategic and agile, which is a key to success in a changing world.
Our strength lies in our international connections and in the diversity of sectors in which we operate. With our inspiration jukebox we connect insights and inspiration from diverse worlds, giving our clients access to a broad spectrum of perspectives, outside and within their own industry. Moreover, we collaborate with a global network of professionals, experts and Caracter ambassadors, which enables us to be innovative, up to date and efficient.
Steps we take in our trajectories:
- Creation and visioning: We start with an inspiring session in which we develop a future-oriented vision together with the client.
- Identify growth drivers: We identify the key growth drivers for the organization and uncover where the potential for development lies.
- Formulate strategy: Based on the vision and growth drivers, we formulate a clear, forward-looking strategy.
- Stakeholder engagement: We engage relevant stakeholders to build support and ensure everyone feels connected to the strategic direction.
- Roadmap development: We translate the strategy into a practical roadmap with concrete actions and steps so that the strategy can actually be realized.
Program options
- Strategic Pathways: Our trajectories average five to eight weeks per section and provide in-depth guidance for companies looking to build a solid foundation for the future.
- 5-Day Potential Mapping Sprint : For companies that want to make quick steps, we offer an intensive five-day sprint. In it, we outline the main issues and lay a foundation that provides immediate guidance.
We speak your language
Sectors we operate in
Connection
We, Suzette Moerman & Edwin Schenk, share our passion with a powerful network of experts and professionals. What binds us is our view on performance, resilience, success and making impact. After years of experience in various sports.
Heritage: 20 years of Caracter
We are tried and tested. For more than 20 years, Caracter has realized successful growth and vision trajectories in Europe and China for hundreds of producers and retailers in food, consumer goods, fast & slow moving. We are proud of inspiring collaborations in the role of trusted advisor. Caracter for Impact has chosen to further specialize, our own upgrade, continue to invest and take actionable steps to transfer to the next generation.
Caracter for Impact
Amsterdam. Antwerp. Brainport Eindhoven
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