Are you asking your teams to swim harder, or are you providing the oxygen they need to learn and adapt?

"Zest for Work helps us to kickstart, pilot and set up a career development initiative at PwC Netherlands. Throughout their people-centered and tailored Career Competencies programme and individual career coaching, our directors deeply reflect on their personal career aspiration and what it takes to self-steer their careers whilst sustaining motivation and energy. The Zest for Work coaches are highly professional and demonstrate outstanding facilitation and coaching skills in virtual and real-life environments, alongside scientific and cutting-edge subject matter expertise on sustainable careers.

Further, Yvon Golbach uses her broad experience in the field of Career development and supports us to move beyond delivery of interventions for individuals and facilitates the strategic implementation of our approach to successfully transition towards sustainable careers. She thinks on a strategic level about conditions for success and how to effectively create them. She understands our unique organisational challenges and provides practical ideas to overcome those. As an example, we organise HR Think Tank sessions to reinforce and strengthen the mindset of our HR team towards contemporary careers and to start identifying how that will affect our processes. Yvon is passionate about the topic and passes her energy on to others. What I like about working with her is that she can put things in perspective and she has a nice sense of humour."

Zests delivers the HPI Corporate Athlete training (internally branded as Behavioural Resilience) at Mars since 2018, everywhere in Europe and Russia. Over 1,000 employees were trained in 6 different languages either face to face and virtually since 2020. Their trainers are absolute experts in the field and provide the human touch needed during the virtual classrooms. I do not foresee us ever moving back to 100% face to face sessions!

Thanks to this programme, we are shifting behaviours and culture @ MARS to one that breathes and sustains high energy and well-being. Our course study data shows that pre-course only 13% of Associates were fully energised. 6 weeks post course, 45% of the participants reported to be fully energised. An increase of 245%.

On top of this, Zest moves beyond delivery, unburdening our team and functions as a strategic implementation partner by supporting our rollout expansion to new languages and locations worldwide. I love their flexibility, and also important for me, they are easy and fun to work with!

Our leadership wellbeing programme with Zest for Work was a game-changer for us at MAF Properties. It equipped us with practical tools to better manage our energy and prioritise recovery—so we have more to give, both at work and at home.  This also helped us role model the right leadership behaviours to promote wellbeing across our organisation. The experience also helped us build greater resilience as leaders, enabling us to navigate challenges with more clarity, composure, and purpose. It was an inspiring and timely reminder of the importance of investing in our own wellbeing to lead sustainably and effectively.