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
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 […]Read More
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 […]Read More
Saturday, May 24th I had the chance to try the Google glass! It was very nice to have control through “the glass” just giving some short commands verbally or with a simple fingertip. The Google Glass reacts rapidly and is very easy to use. To take a picture, to Google, see a movie, put on the lights […]Read More
This month I have been to the Chamber of Commerce to register my company “Wim de Gier”. The activities I will execute in this company will be the following: (International) Project Management advice Interim (project) management Supervision Project Managers IPMA Assessments (Keynote) Speaker at international congresses Congress Chairman For several years I have had […]Read More
Celebration time! I just received a very nice surprise…… This week e-office has been rewarded at the IBM Connect congress in Orlando. e-office received the number one position as “The Global Social Software Business Partner”. I am very happy for them and I fully understand why e-office received this award. During our worldwide social software […]Read More
Last week 60 of my colleagues and I accompanied 90 elderly (many over 85 years) people from Almere. We were able to give them a great afternoon and evening. We escorted them from their homes to the cinema (Movie “The Wilderness), from there to our office at LeasePlan for a wonderful diner and back home afterwards. […]Read More
Update 21 November 2013: The congress has been well received. With over 100 visitors, 16 presentations, workshops and dozens 1-2-1 meetings we can look back to a successful event. Please click here for the opening video “it’s all about the connection” and here for a short overview of the day. The Apps in Business […]Read More
3 November 2013 (pictures below) This afternoon a tornado has damaged many houses in my village Wijk bij Duurstede. Lucky we all are OK. Also my current house and my previous (still not sold) house has not been hit. My sons have been walking towards our previous house and the village is full with fire fighters […]Read More
On 20 November 2013 I will be the Chair at the Apps in Business Congress in the Amsterdam Arena. I look forward to create together with the other speakers, participants and the organization team from Heliview an inspiring congress. Key will be to share knowledge and to build a strong network of people who are working in the “app […]Read More
Article regarding my social business project http://www.baselinemag.com/messaging-and-collaboration/collaboration-and-communication-revamp-how-we-work/ Read More
”We all are visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” Aboriginal Australian saying This map of the world below shows most of the locations in the 80 countries I have visited so far (see […]Read More