Who Am I?
Guido De Gols: The Catalyst for Strategic Business Success
As the leader of a startup or midsize company seeking strategic and operational excellence, you face 4 major challenges:
Highly Complex Leadership Challenges
To lead your business to the next level of success requires a combination of strategic foresight, effective resource allocation, continuous process improvement, and adaptability to change.
Strategic Planning and Execution
You are experienced a balancing day-to-day operations with long-term strategic planning, while adapting quickly to market changes, customer demands, and technological advancements. And you do all this while staying true to your company's core business strategy. That's no mean feat.
But your biggest challenge is to build success in an even more volatile and uncertain marketplace.Resource Constraints
It's astonishing how you operate with limited resources (whether financial, human, or technological). But the real challenge is how to manage these resources while scaling up.
You need capital investment, the right talent, and the latest technology. And you've got to fit it into serious budget constraints, which can make scaling up seem impossible.Operational Efficiency and Process Optimization
High growth while optimizing your operational processes is incredibly complex. You need to streamline workflows, improve supply chain management, maintain quality control, and increase overall productivity. And you need to do all this without wasting resources, without decreasing employee morale, and without losing business opportunities.
Talk about an impossible challenge!
This is where I come in...
Welcome to the realm of Guido De Gols, a unique blend of a leader, consultant, coach, and motivator. Guido’s 35-year journey through various management levels in diverse industries has culminated in a career dedicated to driving significant change and improvements in businesses, especially startups and midsize companies.
Guido’s academic background from KU Leuven, one of Europe's premier universities, includes a Masters in Engineering, Quantitative Business Economics, and Informatics. This combination of educational prowess, with hands-on experience, has enabled him to be a master strategist in business optimization.
Career Highlights: A Legacy of Impactful Results
Throughout his career, Guido has consistently delivered remarkable results, often in challenging situations where change and improvement were critical:
At an engineering products company, he revolutionized warehouse inventory management, leading to a 50% reduction in inventory and increasing on-time delivery to 92%.
At a major hotel company, he initiated a unified system for streamlining performance review and operational efficiency for over 60 hotels.
For another corporation he set up a European distribution system for overnight delivery, cutting costs by a million euros and dramatically enhancing customer satisfaction.
As a Trusted Advisor and change facilitator, Guido’s achievements include:
Implementing Toyota methodology in Volvo Trucks’ facilities, achieving a 22% operational cost reduction.
Rescuing a midsize factory’s ERP system implementation, leading to a flawless high season operation post-intervention.
Reorganizing warehousing and distribution for a midsize company, saving €300,000 annually, while improving efficiency.
Empowering ambitious startups and established businesses.
Guido’s clients have high-impact projects. They leverage his vast experience in finance, IT, operations, and supply chain to grow their startup or midsize company.
His approach goes beyond traditional consulting and coaching; he immerses himself as a trusted advisor, partnering with teams to embrace change, refine strategies, and realize their vision.
His support is not just about strategic advice, it’s about hands-on guidance and tangible results.
He works closely with business leaders, providing support, encouragement, and accountability, ensuring they make progress and achieve their strategic goals and operational excellence.
Here's the unofficial bio…
Much of what I learned in helping business leaders solve massive, complex, logistical challenges came from raising four children, creating a large garden and skippering sailboats!
I speak three languages: Dutch, French and English.
My passion for leadership and business has only increased over time. And I have a word-of-mouth business. Almost all of my clients are by invitation or referral.
If you'd like to have a conversation about the most complex leadership challenge you're facing right now, apply for a free session.
I have a wait list but I'm always looking for fascinating problems to solve!