“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
- Earl Nightingale
EQWeQ inspires and enables positivity, aiming to reach personal balance and ultimate growth
My Journey
After being promoted and leading a bigger team about 15 years ago, I got the chance to work with an executive coach.
This changed both my professional and personal life. Together we worked on integrating feedback in a concrete way, letting go of the expert role, finding new ways to engage my team and building a variety of leadership styles.
During the last sessions while we focussed on the theme “what do I want to achieve next in my career?”
I had a major breakthrough.
My experience
During the last 10 years, I was active as Vice President Head of Coaching, GSK Vaccines. I had the pleasure to train and create a community of 200 internal coaches globally. I coached more than 100 individuals and over 50 groups and high-performing teams. In 2016 GSK was recognized as setting the golden standard for internal coaching by receiving the International Prism Award from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
In addition, I have an extensive business experience of 27 years, working in senior roles in a variety of pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Sanofi-Pasteur-MSD, AkzoNobel). Before joining AkzoNobel, I was very engaged in working with patients for more than 5 years as Medical Doctor.
My development as a coach
My passion for coaching led me to pursue a professional accreditation by the International Coach Federation (Professional Certified Coach).
Over the years I also engaged in different personal development programs & was trained at a variety of international business schools (Hult Ashridge Centre for Coaching, Vlerick Leuven Business Coaching, & IMD Lausanne).
I’m an approved coach to deliver Leadership Styles & Climate feedback sessions & I'm qualified as an approved practitioner to deliver ESCI (Emotional & Social Competency Inventory) feedback sessions (Korn Ferry).
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
- William Arthur Ward
Transformative coaching expertise
Social and emotional intelligence
Discover and build social, interpersonal, and soft skills.
Optimal human performance
Personal balance between humanity and performance through solution-oriented processes.
Authentic leadership
Intuitive, motivational, and inspirational coaching towards individual progress and results.
Gratitude
Being grateful is one of my core values. Therefore I would like to express a special thank you to two great coaches and two wonderful supervisors, who all played a very crucial role in my life. They certainly helped me to become a better version of myself. Thank you Martine Van den Poel, Mark De Wilde, Leen Lambrechts en Anne Welsh.