About me
I have spent over twenty years inside organisations. What I found there changed how I see everything.
My journey started at Interbrand in London, where I first encountered the idea that a brand is not just what a company says, but what a company is. That what you promise externally must be lived internally, and that the signal a company sends out is a direct reflection of what exists within.
That insight never left me, instead it has become the foundation of my work with helping companies create Organisational Oneness.
In 2003 I wrote my thesis on corporate identity and organisational growth, at the intersection of design management, culture and communication, which is where my thinking, and emotion, has always lived. In 2004 I started my first company, focused on corporate brand management: aligning internal identity with external image, developing value platforms and making sure that what lived inside an organisation matched what it communicated to the world.
A few years later, employer branding emerged as its own discipline, driven by HR departments and focused on talent attraction. I saw immediately that it was built on the same foundation, with similar channels but different target groups: internal identity, culture, and the signal those create.
Corporate brand and employer brand management should always be aligned. Because when they are not, something breaks in the signal the organisation sends out.
This is also why I insist on the term employer brand management rather than employer branding. Employer branding refers, by its very name, to external communication. Employer brand management covers the full picture, internal and external, culture and strategy, identity and image. And I believe the difference matters.
What I beleive in
A few things I hold to be true.
Identity before image
You cannot build an authentic brand without first knowing who you truly are. Then this knowledge is ready to be communicated, internally and externally.
Self-awareness as leadership
The most underestimated factor in organisational health is the self-awareness of those who lead. It shapes everything. And it builds the trust that precedes engagement.
Alignment as a business driver
When identity and image are in resonance, everything around the business becomes clearer, which strengthens the overall brand and hence the business.
Purpose driven compassion
I believe in leading with values, insight and compassion, in every conversation, every coaching session, every piece of work I put my name to.
The deeper work
The professional and the personal have never been separate for me.
Through twenty years of working in and with organisations, from global industrial groups to IT startups, from mining companies to media agencies, I have seen what happens when culture and leadership are healthy. And what happens when they are not.
I have worked in organisations where people were drained, where leadership operated from fear and control, where the gap between what was promised externally and what was lived internally was miles apart. And I have seen the cost of that: in people, in culture, and in the business itself. And I've seen the opposite, when values are genuinely lived, and people are met with compassion, something else becomes possible.
Parallel to my professional work, I have always done my own inner work. With personal development, self-awareness, and understanding patterns and energies. Not as a separate pursuit, but as an inseparable part of how I think and who I am. Over time, I began to see the same patterns playing out in organisations that I was learning to recognise in myself. The same dynamics, the same gaps between identity and image, the same cost of inauthenticity.
This is not a soft observation. In my experience, it is the hardest business truth there is.
How I work
I show you the way to awareness, on what to do and what questions to ask, and guide you in the process to find your own answers.
Throughout my career, whether as an employee, interim consultant and strategic partner or a personal coach, I have always been drawn to the moment when someone sees something they had not seen before. When a leader or a team suddenly understands not just what needs to change, but why. That moment of awareness is where real transformation begins.
Even in my years as an interim consultant, I was never just the one delivering strategies and action plans. I was coaching, guiding people to see the problem themselves, to find their own direction, to lead the work from within. That has always been my instinct, and it is now the core of how I work.
I am driven by values, insights and purpose driven compassion. I have done my own inner work and I continue to do so. because I believe that the quality of the guidance I offer is inseparable from the awareness I bring to it.
Outside work
One more thing.
I am a passionate alpine skier, and since many years back I'm a non profit skiing instructor during wintertime. I teach children and adults how to practice this amazing sport in my free time, to do my part in introducing more people to the abundant feeling that comes with it! There is something about being on the mountain, fully present, reading the terrain and trusting your own intuition, that feels very close to the work I do professionally. This feeling of joy, playfulness and connection with self is something I want to share with as many people as possible.