Career development

In his graduation year Henry Leerentveld started working for the most renown Dutch trade union.

From an advisor to a national secretary position, Henry dealt with projects related to:

1. •Employment policy
   

2. •Social security
   

3. •Organisational development and change
   

4. •General HRM-policies
   

5. •Flexible employment
   

6. •Wage and reward systems, including systems for performance evaluation
   

7. •Employability, Life Long Learning and Vocational Education & Training
   

8. •Outsourcing & privatisation
   

9. •Emancipation
   

10. •Redundancies
    

As a chairman of various TU-delegations Leerentveld accomplished many sector-level Collective Bargaining Agreements covering up to 300,000 employees.

Special areas of Henry’s involvement were related to

1. •The Dutch National Employment Agency
   

2. •Employment for Persons with Disabilities
   

3. •Policies for youth unemployment
   

4. •Legislation for long term unemployment measures
   

As part of this involvement, Leerentveld held committee memberships of the Dutch Social & Economic Council for these issues.

Between 1986 and 1998 Leerentveld also was a Board Member of the Social Security Institution, various sector Pension Funds and Sector Training Funds.

As a Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors of AOB Netherlands (Services for educational and career guidance and employability, 700 staff) Henry Leerentveld was responsible for the general management of this high profile service. AOB was in a process of transformation towards privatisation and in need for  strategic redesign of its services and organisation. Leerentveld led the mission, vision, organisation –process towards business focus and executed an efficiency and cost reduction programme. He further accomplished a merger with related service providers and a strategic alliance with the National Employment Service.

Mid 1999, Henry Leerentveld chose to create his own company in strategic interim management and consultancy.

In this position he was strongly involved in the management of companies in times of major change, often having to deal with organisational development, redundancy and collective bargaining.  In his “track record” are: a merger in home care services, a reorganisation and the redundancy measures for a government institution becoming independent, a broadcasting company threatened with bankruptcy and an outsourcing operation in the health care sector.

Since 2003 Leerentveld expanded his international assignments.