About me and not about me

As a master educated Industrial Designer from Delft University that graduated in 2001 on a future mobile internet service at TNO Telecom, I was skilled in innovationmanagement, design, interaction, marketing and engineering.

When I turned to teaching after graduation, I evolved myself in the field of education and later management and leadership. First at the vocational training institute Friese Poort as a teacher, developer and director. Later on, as a programme manager at the Hanze university of applied sciences, I had the privilige to learn and use my leadership skills to support, inspire and lead teams of fourty-plus teachers, lecturers, researchers and support. Together we tried to create great and challenging education for up to eighthundredandmore students in the fields of Human Resource Management and recently Communication & Multimedia Design. Right now I am head of a team that is responsible for the master programs and prefessorship in the fields of Design Driven Innovation and Serious Gaming at NHL Stenden University.

Empowering, trust, selforganisation and ownership next to analysing skills, inspiration, collective discovery, co-creation, seeing things differently and navigating complexity are elements by which I try to add value to the team and their purpose. Leadership, systemic design and learning are keywords that suit me.