Other Hand Consultancy & Events offers consultancy in management systems, project management and supports the organisation of events.
Other Hand Consultancy offers support to companies who want to develop, maintain or modify their management systems (ISO 9K-14K-45K). Other Hand also supports companies in setting up and managing projects or internal change management processes.
The "Events" are a minor field of activity, and mainly the continuation of former activities of a non-profit organisation "Other Hand Music vzw".
Our Values
MISSION: We want to help our customers to obtain their goals and expectations. We do that by sharing our experiences and skills, developed over the years, while active in education and training, quality and project management and the organisation of events.
VISION: To be a reliable partner who can empathize with specific situations and expectations and who thinks along and contributes to achieving appropriate solutions.
VALUES:
Inclusiveness - we respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.
Participation - we value and recognise the contribution of expertise of our partners, co-workers and organisations.
Quality - we strive for excellence through continuous improvement.
Openness - we are committed to a culture of teamwork and collaboration.
Balance - between commercial and non-profit activities to support cultural and humanitarian projects.
CONSULTANCY
Consultancy Projects
TRAINING
Development of training programs
Audit of training programs and instructors
Compliance of training with regulations
Implementation of applications for maritime trade
Implementation of applications for Enterprise Resource Planning
Analysis of needs and requirements for implementation
Trained as a teacher with speciality “Electricity” I taught mainly adult classes over more then twenty years. For 5 years I was the director of an adult education centre that was specialised in less common courses: maritime training, monument conservation and urban planning.
As these specific courses needed special attention, I was involved in course planning, recognition processes with different national authorities. The changed context of my activities needed a choice for my future career. As the maritime training required that all training institutions would establish a Quality Management System, this became my main role for coming years.
In time I left the regular educational organisation to become involved in both maritime and inland shipping activities. In the maritime shipping industry, I became a Quality Manager for a Belgian Shipping Company and a related Maritime Training Centre with branches in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and the Republic of Congo.
The need to visit shipping agents (audits) and our training centres (audits and advising training) worldwide and especially in Africa, brought new opportunities to be involved in other projects: the coordination of a single windows system in Congo, a cargo tracking system developed for Benin and Cameroun and other related projects or required audits.
In the meantime, I got involved in a non-profit organisation for inland shipping families. The specific situation of this sector was an introduction for later involvement in the development of projects in the inland shipping industry: preparing the development of manning application, auditing and advising authorities in related inland shipping administration.
Since 2015 I am working as an independent consultant, partly continuing to work with previous partners both in Benelux and in Africa.
The need to keep both the professional and non-profit activities in balance has led me to reserve time for volunteering work (teaching and advising, mainly in Thailand, Cambodia), involvement to support small-scale music-art-spiritual projects.
