This is a site by Coert Visser. I am a self-employed consultant living in the Netherlands. Through this site I want to inform consultants, coaches and managers about the solution-focused approach to individual and organizational change. Frequently, there will be new cases, articles, interviews and tips on this site. Through these, I want to give you an impression of how solution-focused change can be applied in many organizational settings. This simple and effective approach to change was invented and developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and their co-workers. Initially, the solution-focused approach was applied in the field of psychotherapy. Today, it is applied in many fields. The interest in the approach is growing strongly. In the organizational setting, the approach has often proven its usefulness both in individual coaching and in organizational development. The approach is positive and realistic at the same time. It acknowledges problems without focusing too long on them, it helps making desired results explicit, it helps finding out what works to make progress in the direction of those results and it invites you to do more of what works.