IPMA World Congress Panama
Between 28th and 30th September 2015 I joined the World Congress of the International Project Management Association in Panama (IPMA WC). A key part of this important congress for (international) project managers is the Project Excellence (PE) Award gala dinner, where the IPMA PE jury presents the final results. All projects have been assessed by […] Read More
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 […] Read More
IPMA Project Excellence Award. Site visit Nanjing, China
What an impressive week! From Saturday evening 3 July to Thursday evening 9 July I visited Nanjing in China for the IPMA Project Excellence Awards. Please click here for my previous blog about the preparations in Europe. This visit created an enormously positive view for me on China and the way the Chinese run projects […] Read More
The IPMA International Project Excellence Award Process
Mid-March 2015 I have successfully completed the International Project Management Association (IPMA) PE Award training. Please find my blog about this training in Denmark here. In April I was asked to execute an International PE Award assessment regarding a large project in China. I will not write about the name, location etc. of this multimillion project […] Read More
The Social Enterprise 2015
Some weeks ago I was interviewed as the chairman for the Social Enterprise Congress 2015. Tips from a social business pioneer Pitfalls for organizations that have an internal social platform How do you prevent an internal social platform from fading away after an enthusiastic start? And how do you get everybody involved? Legitimate questions that […] Read More
Project Excellence
Last weekend I attended the Project Excellence Award Training in Denmark (13, 14 and 15 March 2015). This high quality training, executed by the International Project Management Association (IPMA), has learned me how to execute International IPMA Project Award assessments / audits. IPMA is the world leading Project Management Organisation with nearly 60 membership countries. […] Read More
Hang gliding in Winter Wonderland Grindelwald Switzerland
YES! I did it!! If you would like to immediately see a short video of this wonderful hang gliding experience please click here. You will find some pictures of one of my most beautiful hang glide flights at the bottom of this article. In my blog about my first Winter hang gliding flight in the Netherlands (30 December 2014, see here), I […] Read More
Skydive Tambor Bay, Costa Rica
What a great boogie, location, organizers, skydives, friends, resort, organization, country, manifest, pilots, local boogie staff, nature, plane and much more…… For a smiling video of this event, please click here and you will find some pictures at the bottom of this article. On Saturday morning, after a 30 hours trip from Amsterdam – Panama – […] Read More
Lecture at the University of Utrecht
I was asked to give lecture as part of the program Project Management at the University of Utrecht. In this minor students learn about all aspects of project management. My focus was on actual experiences with the international aspects of Project Management. Early January 2015 the lecture took place. Apart from expert knowledge, I used […] Read More
Hanggliding above a wonderful world
28 December 2014 (a link to my video, included below) Last weekend I have had one of my most beautiful hang gliding days in the Dutch Skies. Randonearo (please click on the name for their website) organised a “Winter hang gliding day”. We all (7 pilots in total) were very lucky that just one day […] Read More