Click here to read an article regarding this program in Dutch. For the last 16 months (since April 2022) I have been working as program manager for the Dutch Tax Authorities. I was asked to manage a large and challenging program for the Car Tax Division. The program consists of the replacement of two extensive […]
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The James Webb (JWST) Telescope, an enormous International Program
By reading this blog I like to share a personal story with a strong link to my role as Global Program Director. Cosmos, by Carl Sagan In the mid-seventies, when I was around 12 years old, I have read the book “Cosmos” from Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) and bought my own relative small telescope. […]
Social business Works!
LinkedIn: ————————————————————————————————- Update 14 Januari 2021 (one week after this original post): 34.783 views on LinkedIn and over 800 personal reactions. Never expected this to happen! ————————————————————————————————- Just a week ago I started my own company! My post on this news on LinkedIn has been viewed by over 23000 people in just 5 days (and […]
Time to change
It’s official!! With an early visit to the notary’s office this morning, I started my own company: ‘Wim de Gier Interim (program) management B.V.’. For decades I have been responsible for international programs to transform and harmonise businesses. As a coach I have helped and motivated dozens of colleagues around the globe to explore new […]
Skydiving over Kooddoo Maldives!
In February 2020 I have been to one of the most epic skydive boogies ever, to skydive over Kooddoo in the Maldives. The following “ingredients” were quite extraordinary: To fly-in a Skydive plane from Germany (This took 4 days and the last day only over water) Three groups of over 100 skydivers (every week another […]
Agile Leadership
A rapidly changing world needs a new kind of leadership The world is rapidly transforming and a new breed of leader is required. An individual that is competent in responding swiftly to technological innovation, changing social relations, new divisions of labour and new ways of working. The challenges we face are more complex than ever […]
Skydives over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
In February 2019 I felt very lucky to skydive over the great Pyramids of Giza Egypt. I was part of an international group of experienced skydivers. We all made three skydives over the pyramids and in one of the skydives we literally made a pyramid shape formation in the sky! This was done for the […]
From unknown to known
October 18th, 2016. I am in a plane flying back from Vienna to Amsterdam. The last days were very intense for me, specifically today. A well known skydiver disappeared. This all started on 13 May 2016. Well-known Dutch skydiver and tandem master John Verduin from my home drop zone Skydive Teuge disappeared suddenly when he did not show up […]
Are you up to date?
April 19th 2016, I gave a presentation on behalf of ISES about the strength of the modern project manager at the Dutch Project Management congress. Please the congress website (in Dutch) here. Over a hundred visitors of the congress visited my parallel session, clearly showing that the topic was deemed an important topic for the congress […]
My lovely mom!
Today a great article about my mother has been published in Trouw (one of the largest Dutch newspapers). My mother passed away three weeks ago on Wednesday 29 July 2015. Please find the article below in Dutch. If needed please use google translate. Below this article I also added my own speech during her funeral […]
MH17 / KL4103 why tell me why…….
18 July 2014 7.00 hours. At the moment I cannot stop thinking about all the people who died yesterday afternoon, in the MH17 / KL4103 plane from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur travelling to a beautiful holiday destination, work, home and more. The energy in the plane must be full with joy and with several smiling happy and […]
Yearbook Topsport community
I am happy that a personal interview has been published in the yearbook 2013 of the Topsport Community. Please see the links (Dutch and English) to this interview below For me “It’s all about the right focus and willing to actively create your own destiny” The Topsport Community has been founded by Pieter v/d Hoogenband (Olympic […]