I am an Amsterdam based recruitment specialist with a passion for Talent Acquisition, business and personal development.
Managing a recruitment agency in the field of digital & marketing has given me insight into many businesses and the opportunity to speak with bright minds. I like to address themes such as candidate journeys, employer branding, storytelling and sourcing. Approaching every candidate as the next big rockstar, because people still make the difference. I believe employees look at the labour market the way consumers look at products and services: more than ever, we tend to look to organisations with whom we share DNA, a mission and a sentiment.
I thrive when I can combine my sense of human value with a result oriented environment. Before starting my career in the field of talent acquisition I studied HR. In recent years I discovered the many tools of self-development that Neuro Linguistic Programming offers. As a certified Master Coach in NLP I have since gained experience in both professional and personal coaching. My passion for personal effectivity and efficiency drives me to get the best out of myself and my environment. I enjoy making good things better, I love setting goals and passionately chasing them together.
One of my missions is to help people become the best possible authentic version of themselves. I firmly believe that people will thrive and be creative if you create the right environment. That people want to learn and have impact. In complex environments I make an effort to think in essences and break down difficult matters, leading to effective decision making. I am an advocate of effort and openness. And of working smart. Not working hard blindly.
Sharing my learnings gives me energy and fulfilment and I love a dialogue. This site is a means to express myself and share. Here’s an overview of current blogs and subjects I mean to write about:
- Choosing leaders based on their self awareness
- 4 keys to giving great criticism
- 6 essential lessons for young professionals – and everyone else!
- Managers: resisting the urge to answer questions
- Reinventing yourself – taking ownership and be(hav)ing a certain way
- Try again tomorrow – don’t be hard on yourself
- 12 convictions to (re)shape your career in a world full of options
- Speed of life – you’re not missing out, take your time
- Contrast & perspective – the search for objectivity
- Time management: defining ‘must-do’s’ and ‘might-do’s
- Self awareness
- Teamwork
- Using Neuro Linguistic Programming in business
- Positive confrontation vs. artificial harmony
- Creativity as a state of mind – stop thinking in problems
- The map is not the territory
- Eradicating limiting beliefs
- Playfulness in the workplace
- 3 W’s: warmth warmth and warmth
- The power of expression
- Convincing as a skill
- Don’t groupthink
- Yesterday’s medicine is today’s leash
- Management styles
- Multiple intelligences
- The art of interpretetation
- Choosing your employees
- Getting the best out of people
- Multiple intelligences
- Self-Improvement
- The power of mindset
- Relaxing the bodymind
- Creativity (killers)
- Self-communication
- Using physicality to effect your mind
- Gratefulness
- How to be a sherpa for your team
- Vulnerability as a strength
- Passion in the workplace (not like that)
- Preservation of childishness
- Who is driving the bus you are on?
- We are ambivert (most of us are not introvert or extravert)
- Trust
- Coaching is not teaching
- Silence as a tool
- Mistakes and self management
- Visualising goals
- Be an alien
- The hard truth about a soft approach
- The hard trugh about a hard approach
- Rules and strategy vs the power of people
- Organic descision making
- Don’t ask a fish to climb a tree
- Assumptions – make better ones
- Everybody means well
- Communicational filters