Being technically correct is essential. But it is not always enough to move an organisation. F.L.O.W.™ helps you design influence with the same care you apply to your technical work.
Built on almost 30 years of experience across 150 markets globally, in some of the world's most complex high-hazard operations.
Four minutes to find out where your influence is strongest and where it costs you most. Or go straight to the practical guide for your sector.
12 questions. See how strong your influence is today across all four F.L.O.W.™ elements, so you know exactly where to focus first.
Assess your influenceAll four F.L.O.W.™ elements with real examples and reflection questions. Practical language for your next stakeholder conversation.
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Get the Process Safety guideFrom a four-hour online workshop to in-person keynotes and individual coaching. All grounded in the F.L.O.W.™ methodology and your actual situations.
Four hours. Small group. Your actual situations — the meeting you are preparing for, the proposal you need to land.
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Email MariekeYou understand the systems, the interfaces, the margins that quietly erode over time. And yet, too often, your insight is acknowledged politely — and then parked. Not because you are wrong. But because being right is not enough.
You have built the case. The data is solid. The risk is real. But the decision does not get made. Or it gets made and nothing happens. The frustration compounds over time.
Nobody trained you to navigate the politics of a leadership meeting. To read the room. To connect your safety agenda to what your CFO actually cares about. That skill is expected and rarely developed.
Heavy responsibility. Constant pressure. Too little support. Many safety and operational leaders are burning out in silence — not because they lack commitment, but because the system does not give them the tools to succeed.
F.L.O.W.™ helps professionals design influence with the same care they apply to technical content. It does not encourage arguing harder. It helps you understand how decisions move inside organisations — and how to make sure yours do too.
A proposal that ignores its organisational context may be technically correct while remaining invisible. F maps what has changed, why it matters now, and what is already in the room before you speak.
A safety professional who speaks only in safety language may place the proposal outside the main decision. L connects your analysis to what plant managers, CFOs and supervisors are actually responsible for.
Technical expertise often creates the urge to include everything. Decision-makers need clarity: the central issue, the requested decision, and the consequences of acting or not acting.
People assess the credibility of the messenger and seek perspectives from trusted colleagues. Important proposals often require support long before the formal meeting. W builds that support deliberately.
Part of a bigger system
Design your influence
Shift from compliance to care
Grow courageous leaders
Make change stick
"Go for Marieke. Make sure you have enough time, because there is a lot more she can share. It is not a one-hour session. It is really worth having a full day, a workshop. Don't make it just a lecture. It has to be more than this. Interactive workshop: I think this is where she is at her best."Ilias Panagopoulos, Central Safety Team · Amazon
"It presented a framework that was not only easy to follow, but intuitively made sense. It helps you frame yourself in the leader's position and present as a collaborator rather than a dictator. A very simple model, but a fantastic way to approach it."Chris Lewis, Global Network Leader · NSC Networks
"For me to encounter something insightful and new is quite unusual. The F.L.O.W.™ model got me thinking about how to message difficult findings as opportunity for improvement rather than criticism. I would say: take a jump, give it a go."Norman Ritchie, Director · vPSI Group
Early in my career, I took operational responsibility for a new site. Within my first month, a toxic gas release sent workers scrambling down scaffolding. Nobody was seriously hurt. I was physically sick. Not from the gas. From the weight of understanding what it means to be responsible for people.
On a different site, during a maintenance job, a frontline worker said: "Nobody has ever asked us whether we can actually do this job well, or what makes it hard."
Those two moments are the foundation of everything Be Human Be Safe is built on.
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Marieke Bleyenbergh
Founder, Be Human Be Safe · Chemical Engineer · Former VP Safety at Shell · Almost 30 years high-hazard operations
