Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, North Holland, Netherlands
Do new stuff. Not sitting still, moving around. Make things & impact. Share stories whilst making new ones. Working with people, from the (very) young to the more matured. That's me. Starting out as an elementary school teacher I expanded my horizon by going to university, history and economics being my majors. During my first working years after graduation I studied business & marketing on the side. Which helped me advance through the ranks of corporate life. Always doing new stuff I moved to the business (development) side and the forefront of innovation. The final years of corporate life I spent setting up in-house start-ups and data science initiatives world wide. After this great corporate ride I decided it was time for change and I founded my own consultancy company. A couple of exciting and fun years followed, mostly in the innovation space and start-up scenery. Here in NL and abroad. But I still more or less did the same thing. Through a course in carpentry & furniture making I learned that working more practically gives a great feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. I started helping a friend out with his rapidly growing ship building business. It was once more time for change and I joined ownership of the wharf. We have now grown the existing boat business into an innovative, sustainable electric wharf in Amsterdam. Each time we make our clients happy with a sustainable electric boat I feel grateful for the small but concrete joy that we bring. To both individual clients and to the environment as a whole. Time permitting, I still do some academic teaching on the side.In private life I try to contribute to the local community by serving as both chairman and youth-trainer of the local Ice Skating Club and by being the chairman for our cooperative Disability Fund for Entrepreneurs.
Stoer, robuust, elektrisch aangedreven, onderhoudsvrij. Dat zijn de boten van ZuidWesterSloep. Geen gedoe maar veel en lekker varen. Voor particulieren of voor verhuurders: ZuidWesters leveren veel onbekommerd vaarplezier voor een scherpe prijs.
Ondernemers, groot en klein, helpen met innoveren. Duidelijke, no-nonsense proposities ontwikkelen. Geen dikke stapels powerpoints en eindeloos verdwalen in spread sheets maar gericht en duidelijk aan de slag. Handen uit de mouwen en in korte tijd met je team de zaken duidelijk hebben en resultaat scoren. Profiteren van jarenlange ervaring in het kaf van het koren scheiden. De dingen zien èn benoemen zoals ze zijn. Dat levert snelheid, voortgang en resultaat op.