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Building bridges and inspiring people to meaningful movements is my passion.People are social, creative creatures. You want to set something in motion, create something, put something in the world, be meaningful. People experience added value when they move with others. On the move for something that inspires, something important because it creates value. A movement that bridges differences and contributes to greater
interest and goal.
Development of organizations and communities goes hand in hand with people who take personal leadership over their own development and role. If they connect with what deeply moves them and with the motives of others and the organization, a strong movement towards result-oriented, shared leadership arises. Leadership that is shareable and transferable; a movement from individual to collective, from competition to complement, from ego to eco, from power to authority.
I find my inspiration in building bridges, in connecting impulse, purpose and strategy, personal and organizational development. Stimulating the synergistic power of shared leadership; creating a moving encounter.
Executive Coaching
How do you get your organisation moving or what movement can you make in your personal leadership or career? How do you create shared leadership and how do you transfer? I can be your interlocutor. By coaching, mirroring and sparring. Get to work with your question, in your context. With me as a coach who, as a manager and director, knows how things work in practice or sometimes not.
Advice
What to do if you know where you want to go. What steps could you take to improve the performance of your organization and colleagues? I can advise you and guide you in a development process. By designing and organizing the process; guiding sessions; providing collaboration and leadership training.
Interim management
How to fill in that leadership position, if space or time is needed to identify the suitable candidate or create a transition. I can fill a position temporarily, support the current leadership, secure progress and advise.
Speaker
Do you want to inspire your team to personal and shared leadership. Do you want them to collectively reflect on the life path of the organization and themselves? I am happy to support this with a story about my eventful life path from bunker builder in concrete, to bridge builder between people. About distant loves, loveless lands, lessons learned and moving encounters.
The world is changing fast, which requires an adaptive operational attitude. This attitude needs alignment with our personal and organisational purpose to ensure optimal performance, internally and externally. Leadership and dialogue is a prerequisite to this alignment.
For that reason, boards, management teams, teamleads and individuals ask me to:
Consult on organisational challenges
Guide their strategy development
Facilitatie their personal and organisational leadership development
Strengthen cooperation
Coach and spar with people in leadership roles
Inspire through Livestory workshops
Support leadership by interim management
Mediate in conflict
Building Bridges. My passion is building bridges and inspiring people to meaningful movements. I started of building bridges in concrete and then switched to building bridges between people.
I began my international career as a civil engineer. After that, I worked in emergency relief with Doctors without Borders in Former Yugoslavia, Congo, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone and became operational director in 1997. In 2001, I became a Peacebuilder working as statutory director at PAX, an international peace organization dedicated to crisis prevention and resolution. As COO I led processes of professionalization, merger, rebranding and re-positioning and the change to self-organization.
By 2017, I became an independent entrepreneur and developer in the field of leadership, dialogue and the development of organizations, communities and individuals. I dream, think and act. I coach, advise, support, build and initiate.
Involve me when:
You search for your next move
You wonder how to get things moving in your organisation
You doubt whether dialogue will solve the problem
You question if your challenge can ever be solved.
Timeline
2017
Organisational Consultant, Coach, Trainer, Speaker, Interim manager
2001 – 2017
Director PAX International Peace Organisation
1997 – 2001
Operational Director Medecins Sans Frontieres Netherlands
1993 – 2001
Field Coordinator Medecins Sans Frontieres Netherlands (Former Yugoslavia, DR Congo, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone)
1989 – 1993
Project Engineer Interbeton
