Flow + provides insight into your entrepreneurship, both personally and professionally. You discover where your talents lie and what energizes you. You find inspiration. By focusing on what truly matters and delegating tasks to others, you can get back into your flow. It’s a balanced state of concentration, skill, and challenge that allows you to move beyond limitations. Together, we set clear and challenging goals that align with your dreams, contributing to your growth as well as the growth of your company.
The world of the entrepreneur and business owner
We aim to pioneer new frontiers by embarking on a journey across eleven entrepreneurial “continents”. Together, we explore your world and determine your business objectives. What is your leadership style? How tangible are your strategies and policies? What is your approach to managing employees, resources, and processes? What is your relationship with staff, customers, suppliers, and society? And how do you ensure your board and investors are satisfied, while continuously improving and innovating?
Want to explore your unique world? Start by saying hello!
Reach us directly: Netherlands – +31 40 240 94 18, jbeckers@flowplus.nl ; United States – +1 415 300 0055, cmion@flowplus.nl
Overview
To achieve results, it’s essential to have a comprehensive overview of your business. Not only for business and financial aspects, but also on a personal level. To gain insight into the entire situation and create a high-level view, we map out “the world of the entrepreneur” together. You will quickly see how the various components of your world are interconnected. Starting with a strategic vision, we work together to develop your business.
Flow
Musicians feel it. Athletes experience it. Writers live it. Flow. A state of balanced concentration, skill, and challenge that moves you beyond your limitations. You have a clear, ambitious goal. You are in your element, doing what you excel at and pushing your boundaries. That’s flow. You create, evaluate, and revise in one smooth, continuous movement. Flow feels good because you are doing what you find important, valuable, and enjoyable. How about you? How do you experience flow?
Focus
Your Flow+ partner is there to help you focus on your business. What topics align with your talents and energize you? What inspires you? What areas are important to you to involve others? We help you make choices, including defining the right product-market combinations. This not only includes decisions about ‘what’ to pursue but also the art of prioritizing.
Growth
Flow+ contributes to your growth as an entrepreneur, as well as the growth of the company. It materializes in tangible outcomes. Together, we set clear and challenging goals that align with your dreams. What could be better than connecting a goal to your dream, and successfully achieving it? We work with you to structure your business activities so identified goals become achievable. What should you focus on? Finding the answer is not always easy, but we are here to help.
WHAT DO ENTREPRENEURS
AND BUSINESS OWNERS THINK ABOUT FLOW+?
"We were looking for an expert sparring partner and sounding board for ourselves and our family business," said director-owners Martijn and Margriet van de Ven. "Someone who can take a look from the outside in with a critical eye, and provide us with substantive advice. Together with the management team, they guided us in developing a clear vision and strategy."
QRMS started up eight years ago. "As an entrepreneur, I wanted to develop further and grow the organization," said Twan Wulms. "The insights and approach from Flow+ helped me and QRMS continue evolving. Each Basecamp session provides new insights, ideas, and actions for improvement. The team-building workshop has further helped the team along the way.”
aQuestora is an independent player in the fiber optic world, facilitating a connection between demand and supply in the fiber optic industry. In addressing their challenges, they sought and found an outside perspective in Flow+. "This allowed us to focus on our core business, while Flow+ examined and optimized relationships with our stakeholders," says director-owner Jan Herps.
"We were looking for a broad experience, knowledge, and structured approach for a number of projects," said Eric van Schagen of Simac and Rudie Piessens of Simac Triangle. “We found this at Flow+ with great satisfaction, which has already resulted in several collaborations.”
"Recalibrate and implement the strategy," was Leon Coolen’s objective. This was a compelling challenge at the family company, Coolen, which has been a household name in the Eindhoven region for over 80 years.
A Flow+ Quick Scan among all employees gave Mario Leijen insight into what was happening within his organization, Niva Liften. “I was pleasantly surprised by the way our core values emerged so strongly from the scan. We had never explicitly discussed them with each other, but now that we have articulated them more clearly, we can align our policies accordingly in the future.”
Entrepreneur Wijnand Vergeest opts for guidance from Flow+. Through periodic sessions, they identify and address relevant issues together. “I was able to rebalance everything: myself, my family, and my role as an entrepreneur. The reflective and collaborative discussions on specific entrepreneurial challenges have been immensely helpful in this regard.”
“Thanks to Flow+, we’re making strategic decisions faster and better,” said entrepreneurial couple Dorien and Dick van Aggel, owners of Medicura, a medical device supplier. They are guided in their entrepreneurship by Jeroen Beckers of Flow+.
In 1996, Eric and Angelie Roosen founded Star Sock and Healthy Seas with the philosophy of “Join for Positive Footprint”. "We thought it was time to form a new management team and let the organization operate more independently of us," said Eric. “The purpose was to enable further growth -- a rewarding challenge in which we found this guidance to be essential.”
