Emotional Excellence

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the missing ingredient in enterprise reinvention

Henri Snijders, Michael Kolf

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Henri Snijders Publishing
07 April 2026

Management: leadership & motivation; Organisational theory & behaviour; Working patterns & practices

Emotional Excellence is the missing ingredient in enterprise reinvention.

Many transformations look right on paper. The strategy is clear. The case for change is compelling. The roadmap is approved. And yet execution slows, resistance builds, leadership teams lose alignment, and the organisation quietly slips back into old patterns.

This book starts where most transformation books stop.

In Emotional Excellence, Henri Snijders shows that reinvention does not fail first at the level of logic, structure, or ambition. It fails when the human system cannot carry the weight of change. Beneath every delayed decision, every leadership misalignment, every cultural fracture, and every stalled transformation, there is an emotional reality that leaders often underestimate.

Drawing on years of experience in complex transformation, integration, and enterprise change, Snijders introduces Emotional Excellence as a practical leadership and organisational capability. Not as a soft layer around execution, but as a force that determines whether strategy truly lands, whether new behaviour holds, and whether people can move with clarity, trust, ownership, and courage.

This is a book for CEOs, executive teams, transformation leaders, and board level decision makers who know that incremental improvement is no longer enough. It offers a different lens on reinvention: one that connects business performance, leadership behaviour, culture, and human energy into one integrated story.

Through real world reflections, leadership insights, and practical thinking, the book explores:

why transformation efforts stall even when the strategy is sound how leadership behaviour shapes organisational belief and execution what it takes to build trust, ownership, and clarity at scale why emotional dynamics are central to performance, not separate from it how organisations can create the conditions for meaningful and lasting reinvention

Emotional Excellence is both a strategic and deeply human book. It challenges leaders to look beyond plans and programmes, and to understand what truly drives movement inside an organisation.

Because performance does not collapse first.

The human system does.

And when leaders learn to work with that reality, reinvention becomes possible in a very different way.

By: Henri Snijders
Edited by: Michael Kolf
Imprint: Henri Snijders Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 167mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9789083685106
ISBN 10: 9083685101
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 07 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henri Snijders works with CEOs, boards, and investors on growth, reinvention, and post deal integration. He has built and scaled advisory businesses internationally and led transformation and operating model shifts in complex multi site environments. His work links strategy, operating rhythm, and measurable behaviour change through Emotional Excellence, so progress becomes visible within a quarter, not a decade.Henri operates where strategy meets friction: decision making slows, ownership blurs, and organisations fall back into safe behaviour under pressure. His focus is to design the conditions where execution becomes repeatable, without leaders having to push harder for movement.What he strengthensDirection: the few choices that make winning possible, and what must stop.Operating rhythm: clear forums, clear owners, clear numbers, consistent follow through.Culture and behaviour: the emotional architecture beneath performance, trust, accountability, learning, and the micro habits that determine whether people lean in or step back.

Reviews for Emotional Excellence: the missing ingredient in enterprise reinvention

""Henri captured my voice and vision with real precision. I felt genuinely seen."" ""Working with Henri felt both honoring and honest: trust is rebuilding, emotions are normalizing, and consistency is proven over time."" CHRO, Atos ""Henri's writing moved me. He could be an exceptional ghostwriter."" ""One of my directors said: 'Everyone in our company should read this, ... it helps you understand Eric better."" Founder, ALLSAFE self storage ""Henri turned it into a beautiful piece; sharp, human, and spot-on."" ""My favorite line Henri captured: leadership is removing noise, not adding direction, ... and our story isn't finished yet."" CEO, AFAS ""Henri, great piece, you fully convinced me."" ""He doesn't just inspire transformation; he pushes the performance question CEO's actually care about."" Partner, Mercer (Workforce & Organisational Transformation)