ChangeMakers Program
If you want to achieve change or improvements within your company, it's important to get your colleagues on board with your idea. The Food & Flower sector, like many other industries, faces various challenges such as high energy prices, labour shortages, and changes in laws and regulations related to sustainability. To tackle these challenges, it's essential to optimize your operations. But how can you achieve this? And more importantly, how can you convince the right people within your organization to support you?
The ChangeMakers Program helps companies achieve more with less input. It analyzes internal processes to find solutions that benefit everyone involved, all in just eight months.
A situational sketch:
You are responsible for optimising business processes or implementing change processes/projects within the company you work for.
You are good at it, but sometimes you face challenges such as:
- Stakeholders claim to agree with your plans but fail to take action in practice.
- You struggle to effectively communicate the project to management or colleagues, leading to less impact than is possible.
- It can be difficult to find the right balance between listening to stakeholder input and confidently following your own course to keep the project moving, ensuring stakeholders stay engaged.
- You want to move faster than the rest of the organisation, causing you to lose energy on the project.
Are you looking for a program...
- with a clear and action-oriented process for improvement projects and solutions that work for all parties involved?
- where you learn how to develop and implement valuable solutions with as little time, energy and money as possible by getting the right people on board?
- in which you exchange knowledge and experience with fellow participants by working together and inspiring each other?
In short, a programme that effortlessly gets people on board with change!
what does the changemakers programme entail?
- Learning and applying the best tools and methods for successful change/improvement management:
You will be equipped with the necessary skills to make smart use of internal resources for achieving sustainable change.
- Process of project management and getting people on board:
We strongly believe that effective project management involves more than just utilizing the right tools and following standard processes. Our program emphasizes the development of leadership skills that are essential for ensuring project success.
- Implementation guidance:
The implementation phase can be difficult, but with the ChangeMakers program, you won't be alone. Our team of experts provides customized guidance, and with the help of fellow participants, you'll be able to share knowledge and overcome obstacles.
HortiHeroes ChangeMakers Programma in 2 minuten
SETUP CHANGEMAKERS PROGRAMMA
Over the course of eight months you will learn how to effectively implement change and improvement processes or projects within your organization. This will make change effortless and fun! The program consists of two phases:
For who?
For (young) professionals who...
- work in or for the Food & Flower industry;
- have at least HBO level in thinking and working;
- have at least 3 years' work experience;
- have a strong motivation to contribute to more efficiency and fun within their company;
- often see opportunities and want to improve or optimise processes;
- are keen to grow within their company.
PERFECT FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE POSITIONS
The result
At the end of the program, you will have:
- learned the tools and methods for successful internal change/improvement processes.
- learned how and when to involve the right people in your project and get them on board.
- gained a life-long inspiring network of like-minded people with whom you can exchange knowledge and experience.
- successfully realised an internal improvement project!
Our trainers
Our programs are characterised by an action-oriented approach. The HortiHeroes trainers combine theory with plenty of practical exercises, enabling participants to immediately apply what they’ve learned.
Practical information
Start: october 2025
- Investment by company: €4,995 per year (HortiHeroes partners receive 25% discount).
- Time investment: approx. 4 hours per week in phase 1 (first 3 months) and 6 hours per month in phase 2 (5 months afterwards).
More information? Our Education lead Raffi will be happy to answer your questions via e-mail or a phone call.