I operate out of a strong sense of vision, while letting the detailed course of implementation emerge from the evolving situations being faced. I build on ideas, actions and events that they create, or spontaneously come their way.
- I have “plans;” but don’t implement them and don’t want to be constrained by plans.
- I know where I would like to go but do not always know the route by which I am going to get there!
Projects
Andernemen
TimeDesk,my new company motivates long term unemployed people in Holland to take charge of their own destiny and end their dependence on state benefit. The goal is to turn the human humiliation of Work First initiatives into a vibrant, stimulating and fun way of taking care of your own life by saying goodbye to bureaucracy. I am the initiator of Andernemend Nederland, unknown today, but a new approach to work and carreer you won’t be able to ignore in 2009.
VillageTalk
are also project desk for VillageTalk, a creative network of forward thinking people looking for alternative ways to coach the African Cheetah generation about how to connect their community to the Internet and create a sustainable business model to move into the 21st century without leaning on charity and development aid.
History
In an earlier life I worked for a number of travel agents and tour operators and a brief period at the Radison SAS Hotel in Amsterdam before I started my own hotel reservation service. I was representative for LRI Hotel reservations, until it is was bought by UTELL and pioneerd Landlink, an on-line system created by Jetset tours in the pre- internet era. That’s when I developed a special interest in opayment systems.