When is it useful to work with Bas Geerts?
When a sustainability challenge depends on collaboration between different organisations or stakeholder groups — and getting them aligned is difficult.
Practical answers
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Bas the right person for a challenge? What does he actually do? And how does the collaboration start?
What kind of organisations does Bas work with?
Bas works with NGOs, businesses, public organisations, industry organisations and multi-stakeholder initiatives working on complex sustainability challenges.
What problems can Bas help solve?
Bas helps when the right stakeholders are not around the table, interests conflict, a coalition lacks direction or a shared ambition is not translating into action.
What does Bas actually do?
Bas brings the right people together, helps bridge different perspectives and interests, and helps organisations determine what needs to happen next.
Does Bas facilitate meetings and stakeholder dialogues?
Yes. Bas designs and facilitates meetings, workshops and stakeholder dialogues that help people move from discussion towards understanding, decisions and action.
Can Bas help build a coalition?
Yes. Bas helps identify the right stakeholders, bring them together, create a shared purpose and establish a practical basis for collaboration.
Can Bas help when stakeholders disagree?
Yes. Bas helps make different interests and perspectives explicit and find common ground from which stakeholders can move forward together.
Does Bas provide sustainability advice?
Bas focuses primarily on stakeholder engagement, collaboration and collective action. Where additional specialist expertise is needed, he can work alongside other experts.
What makes Bas different?
Bas combines more than 25 years of sustainability experience with experience across NGOs, standards organisations and international business. He understands different sides of the table.
How does a collaboration with Bas start?
With a conversation about the challenge, the stakeholders involved and what is currently holding progress back. From there, Bas and the organisation determine the most useful next step.
Is your question missing?
Tell Bas briefly what is getting in the way. A complete plan is not needed.