I am driven to make real transformations happen. You can’t solve a problem with the mindset that created it.
I am the founder and director of LIGHTHORSE, LIGHTHORSE FOUNDATION, public speaker and thought leader.
Over the past twenty years I have guided senior leaders, top teams and organizations in their change efforts.
Leaders to become more natural, resourceful and effective in their approach. Teams to create trust and alignment, use talents more wisely and overcome challenges and limiting patterns to be more coherent, effective and productive.
Organizations to be more effective and change successfully by increasing organizational health through Alignment, Execution and Renewal. Connecting the strategy and culture to its leadership and focusing on the behaviors and systems to support the required change.
I have developed a transformation methodology that has proven to be impactful and leads to immediate, lasting change and achieving desired results from within. From a new consciousness you develop new behavior through which you achieve desired results and circumstances and well-being and health. The transformation methodology is at the core of the work we do at LIGHTHORSE.
Because of my ambition to grow and develop and my experiences in overcoming childhood trauma, serious illnesses and physical paralysis, I now also help individuals with personal development, vitality and health, relationships, families and children with labels and trauma.
I believe that today’s challenges can be solved through a deep transformation of people and systems to contribute to greater connection, well-being and peace. At LIGHTHORSE, we therefore focus on work, relationships and the self to contribute to professional success, personal happiness, health and an overall sense of well-being and fulfillment.
In my approach I am able to discuss ‘difficult’ themes clearly. I have an eye for what’s happening beneath the surface and to translate insights directly into everyday reality. Others find me decisive, broadly developed with a lot of life experience. I keep going until the desired and maximum result is achieved. I do my work with passion, love and pleasure.
I have a background in performance and competency management, leadership development and value creation strategies. I have worked for KPMG and as director of Leaders for Nature IUCN.
I have worked with more than twenty well-known organizations in the Netherlands at board level, director level and professional level and supported their change efforts.
In 1997, I founded Salon Tête-à-tête where I bring together leaders in unique locations with eminent guest speakers to facilitate dialogue on relevant topics at the dinner table.