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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

Update Congress The Social Enterprise

Last Wednesday, the 24th of September, the congress took place. Please see my initial blog on the subject here. Over 125 people participated actively and I was asked to chair this inspiring day. The feedback received from the participants during the day was very positive.  On twitter (#tse2014) you are able to read what has […]

Update Dutch National Skydiving Record

In this blog I gave a daily update on our skydives, including photos, video’s and two interviews on Radio538. Please enjoy! For the full explanation of our goals please click here I just uploaded a nice compilation of our 84way. We were all in the formation, but unfortunately also two wrong grips. Please click here to […]