# Coaching, Business & Operations

My path into business operations and executive coaching is not the result of attending business school or following dedicated courses. Instead, I was trained on the job by colleagues and business partners throughout my work at Disruptive Learning Solutions (DLS).

My background studying Architecture had already required that I learned to focus on self-managed project planning and execution, both individually and within teams, which made it easy to transition into organizing a start-up.

Being a managing partner in a small and agile company means having responsibilities across the entire operational spectrum. Over the course of a decade, I co-developed the DLS business and the CinQ brand, navigating everything from brand strategy and technical project management to pre-sales engineering and B2B marketing.

Simultaneously, a colleague with over a decade of high-level executive coaching initiated my training in behavioral diagnostics and executive facilitation. While I do not hold formal coaching certifications, my extensive expertise was forged through a decade of hands-on mentorship from veteran corporate executives and leadership experts.  
I have since personally coached hundreds of teams across a very wide variety of cultures and roles, ranging from top-tier professional esports teams in the Netherlands to Fortune 500 business leaders from companies such as SBM, Stellantis, Sanofi, Lacoste, Auchan, and BNP Paribas.

This hands-on, multidisciplinary journey has given me a rich, practical understanding of how to run a team, scale a product, and drive measurable behavioral change in human teams.

Explore my work in business operations, coaching, and marketing below:

- **[CinQ – Operations & Coaching](/content/en_US/coaching-business/CinQ.md):**  
  A deep dive into my role scaling the Disruptive Learning Solutions business, managing agile product cycles, and facilitating executive team workshops.
- **[Content & Multimedia Strategy](/content/en_US/coaching-business/multimedia.md):**  
  An overview of my work editing podcasts, publishing articles, and driving B2B content strategy.