Anne-Marie van Ommeren

Anne-Marie van Ommeren: trainer in communication, collaboration and organisational development

According to Anne-Marie, good collaboration is not only about content and processes. It is equally important that team members feel heard, connect with each other at the right time and understand what is expected of them within organisational development.

That is why she looks beyond traditional structures and roles. She examines what lies behind a collaboration issue and what needs employees, stakeholders or other parties involved in the change process may have.

In her work, she guides both individuals and groups through targeted learning programmes. She helps people collaborate more consciously, use constructive forms of dialogue and connect better with other teams. In doing so, she combines substantive insight with attention to group dynamics and the people who play a role in them.

Her expertise comes together in areas including:

• Collaboration and team development
• Organisational development and change
• Group facilitation and co-creation
• Interactive training and coaching
• Moderation and interactive discussion facilitation
• Effective forms of collaboration
• Personal impact and influence
• Advising management and boards
• Stakeholder management
• Concise communication in teams

This creates an organisational culture that is not only functionally sound, but one in which people genuinely connect and achieve goals together.

Listen first, then develop

The philosophy behind CommUnicate can be summarised in one simple principle: listen first, then develop together. Understanding each other and the challenges from a foundation of respect and values.

Everyone needs to be heard and understood. What may be a logical step for one person can cause uncertainty or resistance for another. Anne-Marie helps organisations and teams make these different perspectives visible. By asking critical questions, listening carefully and analysing what is really happening, she creates insight into both the organisational challenge and the human dynamics behind it.

Only then does this translate into interactive methods and action.

This makes her approach suitable for situations in which team development is part of a broader organisational issue. For example, when different parties need to collaborate intensively, employees need to be brought along in change, or an organisation is seeking a new culture with broad support.

From strategy to concrete behaviour

A vision only has value when teams can put it into practice. That is why Anne-Marie continually connects strategic organisational objectives with everyday behaviour on the work floor.

She can reduce a broad or still unclear organisational issue to a concrete training approach and then help bring these learning programmes to life. This involves attention not only to structure, but especially to how people within the organisation interact, communicate and co-create.

As a trainer and coach, she helps participants translate theoretical insights into their own actions. What is my role within this team? What happens when I collaborate with someone who has a different working style? How do we, as a team, ensure that our joint efforts lead to results? This makes training not an isolated activity, but a flywheel that directly influences sustainable collaboration, leadership and organisational development.

Insight into behaviour as the foundation for better collaboration

Effective forms of collaboration begin with insight into yourself as well as the other person. People differ in the way they process information, make decisions, respond to organisational change and connect with others.

It is precisely these behavioural differences that can create both innovative strength and underlying friction within teams.

Behavioural analyses can help make these differences visible and open to discussion during training. They give participants a shared language to explore why collaboration sometimes comes naturally and at other times leads to misunderstandings.

This aligns with Anne-Marie’s people-centred way of working: rather than immediately implementing a standard training programme, she first investigates, listens and understands what the team needs in order to grow.

With Qnomi, these behavioural insights can also remain available after a training course or co-creation session has ended. Participants can revisit their profile and connect insights to new situations in their daily work. In this way, awareness can continue to develop within the organisation into effective and lasting collaborative behaviour.

Strong in complex environments and diverse interests

Anne-Marie has extensive experience with development programmes in which many different parties, interests and strategic perspectives come together.

In her work, she is engaged to quickly understand complex organisational issues, design innovative forms of collaboration and translate them into concrete training programmes. She also guides groups, conferences and meetings as a moderator or discussion leader.

In doing so, she not only safeguards the purpose of a session, but also keeps a close eye on the group’s energy, involves participants and probes underlying dynamics when necessary.

This combination of analytical acumen and attention to human dynamics makes her valuable to companies, government bodies and partnerships alike, where connection is the key condition for setting organisations in motion.

Developing from genuine interest

The common thread running through Anne-Marie’s work is a genuine interest in people and their professional growth.

According to this philosophy, successful organisational development does not come from simply imposing processes from above. It starts with wanting to understand who the people in the organisation are. What skills do they need? What interests are at play within the team? What may remain unspoken? And how can you then design a training course or form of collaboration that truly engages employees?

This requires both empathy and keen strategic ability.

It is precisely this combination that forms the foundation of CommUnicate. Anne-Marie brings structure to complex change challenges without losing sight of the human side. In this way, she helps organisations not only train skills, but above all create a culture in which strong collaboration and transformation become possible.