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Insights

Explore expert perspectives, practical solutions and fresh ideas across our key domains. From industry trends to career advice and company culture.
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Business Consulting

ISO 9001:2026: an evolution, not a revolution

Six key accents in the new ISO 9001:2026 standard, and what they actually mean for your organization.

Luc Marivoet

Luc Marivoet

QHSE Manager & Partner

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Business Consulting

How a Yellow Belt solves recurring problems

A production line with too much scrap, a management team reaching for new machines, and operators who knew the problem was somewhere else. Kris van Nieuwenhove on what a Yellow Belt project changed.

Kris van Nieuwenhove

Kris van Nieuwenhove

Senior OpEx / QMS Consultant

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Life Sciences

A familiar face among the labs, with ambassador Maarten

What difference does it make to have someone from your own employer beside you every day? Maarten Osstyn has ten years of lab experience and becomes the ambassador for his colleagues in September.

Maarten Osstyn

Maarten Osstyn

Life Sciences Consultant

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Life Sciences

Enjoy the stress, it is what makes you grow

Do you have to switch employers to learn something new? In almost five years Florian took on three roles at two pharmaceutical sites, without ever applying for a job again.

Florian Scheenaerts

Florian Scheenaerts

Life Sciences Consultant

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People & Culture

Talent Management in your own language, with Amandine

What changes for a consultant when their Talent Manager speaks their own language? Amandine supports our consultants in life sciences and biotech in Brussels and Wallonia, from day one.

Amandine Jansen

Amandine Jansen

Talent Manager

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People & Culture

Getting people moving: Annick Stevens on change, coaching and careers

What does a Talent Manager do when change is her speciality? Annick guides consultants from a week before day one and gets them moving, literally and figuratively.

Annick Stevens

Annick Stevens

Talent Manager

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People & Culture

Five years as Talent Manager: Debbie Croonen on building the role from scratch

What does talent management really mean when you helped build the role from scratch? Debbie supports consultants as a warm, honest home base, from day one well into their career.

Debbie Croonen

Debbie Croonen

Talent Manager

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Life Sciences

Dark factories in Life Sciences: beyond the myth of the abandoned factory hall

How realistic is a fully automated 'dark factory' in pharma? We unpack the real challenges, the pitfalls and the practical solutions for automation in Life Sciences.

Toon Budeners
Yannick Teyssen

Toon Budeners, Yannick Teyssen

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Engineering

Inside the project shaping Belgium's energy infrastructure

Engineering Consultant Chiel on how underground high-voltage projects power Belgium's industrial electrification and future-proof the national energy grid.

Chiel Bourdeaud'huy

Chiel Bourdeaud'huy

Engineering Consultant

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Digital

Building future ready fiber networks: my role as a consultant

Fiber consultant Maikel Put explains how smart design, close coordination between partners and technical craft turn a rollout into a network built to scale.

Maikel Put

Maikel Put

Fiber Consultant

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People & Culture

Inside Talent Management with Els Roesems

What does talent management really mean in consulting? Els explains how she guides consultants from day one and supports their growth throughout every project.

Els Roesems

Els Roesems

Talent Manager

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News

From Vandycke & Partners and Four Life Sciences to Pauwels Consulting

Vandycke & Partners and Four Life Sciences are now part of Pauwels Consulting, strengthening our Executive Search & Selection expertise in Life Sciences.

Daniel De Kind

Daniel De Kind

Recruitment Marketeer