Laetitia Simonis

What do you do at 1nergiek?

As managing director, I can actually have an opinion about everything 😉. But above all, together with our people, I work every day to further build 1nergiek. On our organization, our culture, our services, and long-term relationships with our clients.

I focus on strategy and growth, but just as much on what can be improved tomorrow at a site. I connect people, ideas, and opportunities and mainly try to create momentum. My starting point is almost always: it is possible — we just need to figure out how.

How did you end up in this profession?

Not because I dreamed of a career in cleaning as a little girl. I once fell into facility services and quickly discovered how special this industry actually is. Cleaning may seem simple, but behind good service there is an enormous amount: people, logistics, quality, technology, entrepreneurship, and above all collaboration.

That combination suits me perfectly. No day is the same, there is always something to improve, and you work with and for people. By now, to be honest, I wouldn't want anything else.

What gives you energy in your work?

Building! Taking something that is complicated, stuck, or maybe even impossible according to others, and then thinking: great, how are we going to make this happen anyway? I also get energy from getting people moving, seeing opportunities, coming up with new things, and achieving results together that we may not even have thought possible beforehand. And I love seeing people grow and take responsibility.

But my biggest source of energy? When both a client and our colleagues are genuinely happy with what we have achieved together. Then it feels right.

What is a work situation that has stayed with you, and why that one in particular?

There are actually quite a few, and all of them are equally valuable. For me, it is usually not the biggest contracts or the best figures that stay with me most. It is the moments when people rise above themselves, when we achieve something together that beforehand seemed impossible, or when a colleague suddenly shows how much he or she has grown. That is what I can truly be proud of. Because in the end, as a company, you can come up with all kinds of things, but our people make 1nergiek and they make me.