about me
About Ronald
With a background in HR and management in both the non-profit and corporate sectors, I have worked in numerous organizations, with teams, and a wide variety of people.
My work and personal experience with HIV and AIDS in the 1990s and early 2000s significantly shaped my professional development. This is fundamentally what motivates me to do my current work as a coach.
Progress starts with movement
Throughout my life and career, I have found that the attempt to maintain a healthy work-life balance sometimes made me struggle. I was in danger of getting stuck. I was dissatisfied with how I gave meaning and purpose to my daily activities. I was able to ultimately open the door to change myself. I don’t like stagnation. I want to see people moving. That’s why I coach.
I live in Deventer with my husband. I’m a “bonus-dad” to two beautiful daughters and their husbands, and I have three lovely grandchildren.
Why I do this?
I know what it’s like to keep going even though deep down you feel that things should be different. Making choices out of responsibility, habit, or a lack of courage, while your heart demands something different. This is precisely what taught me how valuable it is to pause, slow down, and reconnect with what is important.
This is why I’m a career coach.
I believe work only truly resonates when it aligns with who you are. You don’t have to make huge leaps to experience change – it often starts with mindfulness and a first conscious step.
In my coaching, I work in a calm and personal way, focusing on mind and heart. Together, we will explore what gives you direction, so you can confidently make choices that feel right and are right for you.
Reintegration Coaching
Alongside my work as a career coach, I also support re-integration coaching, delivering guidance for those that want to return to work and rebuild a professional life. I provide this together with colleagues from “De Praktisch Psycholoog” in Bathmen. Do you live in the Deventer / Apeldoorn / Zutphen / Zwolle, in de Achterhoek, Twente or Midden-Gelderland areas? We are a recognized UWV reintegration company and offer Modular, Work Fit, and Job Retention programs.
Do you want to know more?www.depraktischpsycholoog.nl
personal stories
“I’d been carrying around a nagging feeling for over a year, finding it increasingly difficult to get out of bed during the week and feeling utterly exhausted after a day’s work. During a performance review, things finally made sense, that this had not gone unnoticed by my manager. With career coaching from Ronald, I was given the opportunity to figure out where the problem lay. This was incredibly valuable. Ronald asks questions, doesn’t give up easily and gave me assignments that made me re-examine myself. And with results: I am now going to do what I’ve wanted to do for a long time but never dared – start my own business”.
– Sylvia
43 years old