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Bart Strijbos
Mediator
Focus on issues in growth companies
Specialised in employment disputes and absenteeism
Also active as a marketing strategist
Dutch-speaking and English-speaking
Active throughout the Netherlands
This is how Bart
makes the difference
Empathetic: Listens and ensures that both employers and employees feel heard
Creative and flexible: Does what is necessary to jointly reach a solution quickly
Strategic background: Current experience in the business world
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About Bart
Issues in growth companies require speed, care and an understanding of the dynamics in which they arise. Bart Strijbos is an MfN-registered mediator and Master of Laws, specialised in employment mediation and absenteeism within organisations under pressure due to growth, change or investment rounds.
With more than fifteen years of experience as a strategist and manager, from start-ups to corporates, Bart knows what the world of HR professionals, founders and investors looks like. At the same time, he understands what issues mean for employees: uncertainty, tension and the feeling of being stuck. It is precisely this combination that means he is experienced by all those involved as independent and balanced.
Bart clearly sees what is at stake when issues continue to simmer, for organisations and for the people who are part of them. He brings calm and structure to conversations that have become stuck and helps parties to engage in dialogue with each other again. In doing so, he combines legal sharpness with attention to human relationships and underlying interests.
His style is empathetic and direct. By creating a safe and open setting, space is created for trust, recognition and movement. Bart guides parties towards solutions that do justice to everyone’s interests and at the same time fit within the reality and future of the organisation. Always focused on sustainability, progress and limiting further damage.
Bart speaks
“Issues persist when conversations are postponed and assumptions take over. Especially in innovative organisations, where pace, ambition and differing perspectives are precisely meant to create friction.
In mediation, I help parties to engage in conversation with each other again and to truly listen, so that everyone’s interests and boundaries are seen.
That creates clarity, movement and perspective. Essential for regaining trust in each other, and certainly in growth companies almost always the difference between becoming completely stuck or continuing to build together with strength.”
Recent work
Mediation in a scale-up between the CEO and an employee from the early days, aimed at restoring trust and improving mutual cooperation, after which the parties continued the collaboration. (2026)
Mediation between two founders of a growing logistics organisation regarding a stalled collaboration and division of roles after a period of rapid growth. Bart guided the parties towards renewed clarity, restoration of trust and workable agreements for the future. (2025)
Mediation in a medium-sized ICT organisation between an employee and a manager during an absenteeism process with increasing tensions. Bart guided the parties towards a careful and jointly supported separation. (2025)
“I expected the mediation process to be much more rigid, but it turned out to be very organic. Bart has an active and goal-oriented approach, which I experienced as very pleasant.”
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