Embracing a New Chapter: Semi-Retirement and Beyond As I pivot into a semi-retired phase of my life, I find myself reflecting on a fulfilling career spanning 47 remarkable years. This transition is not about stepping back but rather stepping differently—channeling my passion for people and creating a fabulous world into new avenues of engagement and growth.New Focus Areas:Dance and Personal Development: I am seizing this opportunity to deepen my skills in dance, an area that brings me immense joy and connects me deeply with culture and creativity.Mentoring and Change Management: Drawing on decades of experience, I'm excited to guide the next generation of leaders, sharing insights on navigating change with resilience and vision.Artificial Intelligence: The rapidly evolving field of AI presents limitless possibilities. I'm eager to explore how this technology can drive positive change and innovation.Community Projects: My commitment to making a difference continues as I lead projects close to my heart, aiming to enrich our communities and foster sustainable growth.Family Time: This new chapter offers the precious gift of time—time to be spent with loved ones, cherishing every moment and creating lasting memories.Consulting Services: I remain dedicated to my professional network, offering consulting services to past clients and their networks, leveraging my extensive experience to solve complex challenges.This semi-retirement is not an end but a transformation. It's an opportunity to apply my passion and experience in new ways, contributing to the areas I deeply care about while maintaining a balance that nurtures personal growth and family bonds. I look forward to staying connected, sharing learnings, and exploring potential collaborations that drive meaningful impact.

Fervor is a group of talented, driven and impact-focused creatives. Some Fervor creatives are full-time, some part-time and others share their expertise on occasion. And we’re built this way on purpose — our model keeps us flexible, nimble and able to serve our clients with precision. We’re not an ocean liner, we’re a speedboat.We exist because of a calling. With fervor, we serve those with hearts to create change in the world. Everything we do begins with holistic strategy. We help organizations understand and meaningfully connect to their greatest advocates in creative, authentic and lasting ways. Fervor is marketing made for impact.At Fervor, Chalks is: a creative in our European Project Office. His role fulfills our clients’ and team’s needs for exceptional planning and change management (Prince2), delivery and lots of contact. Chalks serves as a uniting point between Fervor’s main US office and our clients in Europe.Specialties:Branding, Web, Communications, Marketing Strategies, Social Media, Challenging You, and SEO/SEMhttps://www.createfervor.com

The vision of People to People International is that a network of culturally knowledgeable global citizens will be an active force in sustaining a more peaceful world. Believing that it is through connecting people across borders and cultures that we build the relationships that create understanding.My role as European President is to provide strong leadership as we transform the orgnization into a 21st century NGO. My area of responsibility is as President for Europe, Chair of the 42 strong board of Trustees, adviser to the nine person European Steering Group. The PTPI European Region reports to the World HQ and CEO in Kansas City, USA. Our global network covers a 160 countries, with 275 chapters and 27,000+ members.

• Deliver a range of consulting and support services in areas of people-development, digital marketing and web development, brand impact marketing, communications, community engagement, project and change management (Prince2), logistics and transportation, customs compliance, hospitality and events, relocation, voice over and MC services, business development and youth services. Clients save as much as 100,000 euro each year through my extensive networks and professional services. • Board member/trustee/advisor/leader: ACE of Brussels, People to People International AISBL, British Scouting Overseas.• Leadership as President of People to People International Europe. Directing a team of 65 community officers from 42 countries, to support a group of 2100 members. Key deliverables are: leadership to the PTPI Brussels Hub, budget, social and legal reporting responsibility for the Region, manage frequent internal and external communications, lead regular gatherings within the region, monthly networking and learning activities, monthly volunteering activities, fund development, lead an annual European conference and represent PTPI at local & international speaking engagements. • Reporting to clients through a range of Microsoft desktop and other technology tools. Project manage to PMI and Prince2 methods.Our values are Simplicity, Decency, Imagination, Confidence, Excitement and Unity.

We delivered support to parents, teachers and other organizations that support children and young people with learning difficulties. Our work brings us into contact with all language groups in Belgium. We offer telephone support, web content and information, workshops and a special needs library. We also deliver regular workshops covering subjects related to educating and making the most of these talented children that the current education system is not able to deal with easily.

I am also the country representative for Expatica and a Director of BRUSSELS4YOU.EU, along with other marketing and media roles. My networks deliver News, Information, Events and make connections for International people on the move - online, in print and in person. Our work brings us into contact with many major brands, and we also work with smaller organizations looking to raise the profile of a product or service. We have a large community in Belgium and provide a human support service to the growing demands of a multicultural community. We love what we do and are passionate about service.

As an events manager with this group, we delivered support to parties/functions, workshops, dinners and other events. The facilities can cater from three to 3000 people. We are located inside the Autoworld Museum at Cinquantenaire Parc and close to Merode Meto. Our parking area can cater for close to 400 cars. My role is ensure that everything happens on time, to standard and agreed budget. I also look after digital marketing and communications.

Developed and implemented strategy, policies, tools, partnerships monitoring system and communications for DHL’s Corporate Citizenship Program.• Published many advertorials in external press, undertake a number of external speaking roles, established Logistics and Corporate Citizenship Initiative under the flag of the World Economic Forum (Forum), moderated a number of session at Forum organized Regional Summits and developed a number of stakeholder engagement projects under the flags of either the Forum or GRI (Global Reporting Initiative).• Develop briefing notes, presentations, initiatives and other deliverables for the CEO. Accompany the CEO to some meetings to provide support and advice.• Managed annual budget of four million euro, with influence over an additional two million for corporate citizenship (CC) activities. • Provide leadership for the CC activities of 230 countries and territories, 160.000 employees with total revenue of 22 billion euro.

• Established DHL’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and set up and managed a unit to develop and implement a CSR (subsequently Corporate Citizenship) Strategy• Produced External Communications Strategy to integrate DHL’s approach to reputation and brand enhancement• C0-developed and implemented DHLs internet site and managed the content and CEO’s interest in web developments.• Developed and managed a number of major events, such as the launch of a Formula 1 sponsorship and annual employee world soccer tournament for 3500 people.

•Completed development of the Global Service Commitment program to facilitate service improvement, to agreed targets in all regions. •Develop and implement helpdesk systems, processes, library function and quality assurance teams in three regional offices.•Defined, developed and implemented operational IT systems (Prince2), together with training and harmonized business processes in the European Region.•Developed rules and metrics for global data warehouse, reporting and service monitoring system for global operations and senior management reporting.•Developed and implemented tools to improve team working and communications within Global Operations. •Manage Service Area day-to-day operations including; sales, operations, customer service and finance.Provide support and cover for area General Manager.Deliver regular reporting and manage projects through Microsoft desktop tools, and working within the Prince2 methodology.