Our Clients

Corporate clients

We have worked for in the past for Apian Coaching; Axa; Bovis Lend Lease; Farady; Hewlet Packard; Pathways Polska; Pathways UK; Robo Bank; Royal Mail; Tetra Pak; Unilever.

The work of Emergence can involve sensitive information and is strictly confidential.

The client list is not open to individual scrutiny.

Individual clients

Over the years we have had great feedback from the people who work and journey with us. Here's a couple of quotes that may give you more of a feel for what we do.

Nick..

Participant in our Endless Journey Programme..

"Having spent a lifetime flailing around, living, surviving, doing my best to manage the various attributes of my character without causing too much damage to myself or those around me, I never imagined how it could feel to not be right on the edge, isolated and alone.

Thanks in very large measure to the work I have been doing with Jonathan, I no longer feel that I may implode at any second and I have come to realise that I am not alone. Each step I take is a step into My life and into relationship, not out onto the edge of the precipice.

Thanks to Jonathan's tireless focus and skill I have dared to lower my defences and experience the full range of what life has to offer, without pre-judging every situation and every encounter. Always supportive, always ready to affirm the positive, he has never balked at telling me what I need to hear, at guiding me towards a much deeper understanding of myself. He has given me so much love and so much understanding, while allowing me to make the journey very much my own. Most importantly for me he has been human, fallible, approachable, not an arms-length therapist, but a friend and mentor guiding me on my journey and invisibly very much part of it."

Nick

Johan..

Participant on Executive Mentoring programme..

"After our latest session in November, I decided it was important to write you a line about how I have experienced 8 full days (5 sessions) with you. My main objective with this testament is for you to have a document to share with someone like me, who knocks on your door and who is considering spending time with you. The following story might be a bit long for the stressed executive to read, but if this can influence someone, I will be happy and proud, as I will know I have contributed to the well-being of someone else.

If someone were to consider mentoring, my first advice to that person would be to read a book called 'Tuesdays with Morrie' by Mitch Albow. I see it as a wonderful little manifesto of how important it is to have a special relationship with someone that knows a lot about life but more importantly someone who takes great pleasure in sharing it with anybody who cares to listen.

I am talking about someone like you Jonathan, who has an outstanding ability to engage and connect in any encounter with a fellow human being. I tend to think that if, for example you would check in at an airport, the clerk at the other side of the encounter will experience a brief session of mentoring - and friendship. Like a sample of the warm breeze you take with you into the room and the grace with which you consider others.

As I told you in the beginning, I have attended a large number of trainings for senior executives at top learning institutions led by top names in the business, either in-house with a mix of colleagues or with fellow executives from other companies; a mix of classroom lectures, workshops and hands on practice.

All this has been of good help for me in my job and personal life. However, what was always difficult at those trainings was to what extent I could ask more personal questions, concerning exactly my issues. When I am surrounded by others, I tend to be careful not to take up time with personal issues, and there is seldom much time for it either. Even with the best facilitators, the discussions stay on a quite general level. This gives a good framework and often models for further personal reflection, but we all know that once we are back on the job, we rarely proceed with the reflections we promise ourselves.

I was fortunate to have a company to believe in this investment in my development and I felt it as a great achievement once the idea was anchored both with my operational boss as well as with HQ's Human Resource Department. It took a bit of guts, but that is where it needs to start, I believe.

So what have we done Jonathan? Did anything change for me? First of all, it is not easy to observe your own change and I think I have a tendency to underestimate what is going on within myself. So one answer is probably "more than I think".

Although remaining humble of my own abilities to observe myself, I do consider myself much more aware now of my inner self as well as of what is going on around me. I feel more prepared to respond to both the internal and external challenges. I will always remember our discussion about conscious controlled constructive behaviour. Wonderful tools!

Our journey was also a great preparation for the future. As two brave boys, we attacked the meaning of life. Apart from more personal answers regarding my own purpose, if there is one, I found it wonderful to get a bit more clarity. You are 18 years ahead of me and that is important in our story.

I look back 18 years of my own life. I was then 24 years old and I dare to say that I have become wiser since. Now what if I could just hear a bit about the next 18 years? Listening to you Jonathan does in no sense make me believe that I have acquired those 18 additional years of wisdom. However, I feel much more prepared for what is to come after our discussions. I have less fear for the unknown both professionally and personally. With your encouragement, I will continue on my little path more thankful for what I have and as a more sincere contributor in all my future encounters and challenges. Believe me, I started already!

Moreover, I buried some old behaviours and habits. I kept silent in the hot stormy desert for 24 hours - your trick to initiate me in the inner dialogue free of disturbing thoughts generated of my ego. We experienced beautiful places and you reminded me of how wonderful they were and I realized how fortunate I was. We generated a few memories that will never fade away.

You know that what I found difficult was to accept your proposed friendship. The barriers for me were that the company paid money for your services and mentoring is what you partly do for a living. However, over time, your interest in every little detail of my history, every little detail of my everyday life, your urge to meet my family, friends and colleagues, and more importantly the ease with which you shared your own everyday life with me, made us friends.

It took me some time to understand that your care for me was real, not something I paid for. Would the analogy of prostitution and love be appropriate? We are in love! (Well that was maybe a bit over the top but I let it remain there.)

I could keep on writing but I have already exceeded by far the universal rule of the one pager. If anybody who knocks on your door would like to speak to me, feel free to give my number or email. I will take great pride to share my learning, take great pride to introduce you Jonathan and to try to be that little part of the big puzzle that we all are."

Johan