“You are often asked at a young age to make career choices, which I don’t think you can make yet due to the lack of life experience. Wrong choices are often made. When you later find yourself in a situation where you are forced to look at your career again, I think it is important that this is handled properly, and that people look for what really suits them. I myself have been in such a situation where I had to choose again.

After a technical education at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, I ended up at an environmental consultancy firm, and I quickly learned ‘technically’ from there. However, I always unconsciously looked at the talents of my colleagues so that I could put together a team that was necessary to make projects a success. That’s why my supervisor told me to do ‘something with people’.
In a first coach training I found out that he was right.

With my analytical view on talents and my empathy for people, I started to focus on coaching and training employees and organizations where personal development is a challenge.

In the beginning, I had to use my willpower to actually get paid assignments. But that worked out well!