Leadership at NS

NS strives to employ proud and healthy employees. Our managers play a crucial role in achieving this goal. In 2024, NS carried out various interventions to build on the leadership vision as updated in 2023. This vision has been translated into skills and competences in the updated management learning pathway. We want to organise leadership development closer and closer to practice, so that leaders can develop in their roles in their own workplaces. This will ensure that leadership development and performance improvement go hand in hand. We completed a programme with the Executive Board and directors who report directly to the Board on themes that play an important role in keeping employees proud and healthy.

Leadership development and talent development

NS employees can grow and develop through various pathways and programmes. This allows them to move on more smoothly to other positions, management layers and leadership positions. The successful traineeship has been redesigned to better align with the future generation of leaders and NS's strategic choices. The programme place a strong focus on diversity to better reflect diverse perspectives, including at the senior levels of NS. In these programmes there is once again an emphasis on practical application.