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 […]

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 […]

Certification in other professions

See also my first blog regarding my dialogue at the IPMA World Congress here. Update 28 September 2014, Ready to go! Please see this teaser.   Update 28 August 2014 As promised (expectation management => ICB 1.02 stakeholder management), please see an update on my blog in preparing for my presentation at the IPMA WC. […]

Topsport community diner

The Topsport Community is a community of Top athletes, Executives from multinationals and scientists. The goal of this community is to learn from each other, to strengthen leadership and to create an inspirational network of excellence. Yesterday evening we had a very inspiring diner with about 40 well known Dutch people. Among them were top […]

My own company!

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 […]

Two great Social Responsibility initiatives

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. […]

Skydivers flying with hang gliders

An article (in Dutch) in the “Sportparachutist” (national skydive magazine) about me as a skydiver who is also a hang glider pilot. It seems that I am one of the four people in the Netherlands who is next to a skydiver (since 1981) also a hang glider (since 2006). 2013_09_20 Sportparachutist September 2013 Skydivers aan […]