🌟 Trend MentorI enable you to research trends yourself via trend pilots, trend training and collaborative research. Your side kick to help you integrate trend research within your organisation or team.📚Author of research related booksDare to Ask (2020) - BIS PublishersHow to Research Trends workbook (2019) - BIS PublishersHow to Research Trends (2017 + revised edition 2023) - BIS PublishersExamples of clients: Port of Antwerp Bruges, Swinkels Family Brewers, Gemeente Almere, UNGA, MARE Research, SURF, SBB, Rijksoverheid, IKEA, KPN, AEGON, Provincie Zuid-Holland, HIVOS, City Football Group, European Commission and NPO.Examples of trend lectures at academies and universities: Fontys TCL, Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA), Royal College of Arts (RCA), Team Academy, HO Gent, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Mondragon University, Birmingham City University (BCU), Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Hogeschool Utrecht, Hogeschool Zuyd.

I collaborate freelance with this bunch of corporate refugees and add my skills and expertise on user research and consumer trends into the Design Thinking mix. I provide masterclasses and workshops in exploring and research.

Prepare students for tomorrow, teach the future today!Teach the Future (TTF) is a non-profit worldwide collaboration amongst educators to empower youngsters to think critically & creatively about the future. I support the mission of TTF and voluntarily help them out with spreading the future virus to educators worldwide.

Exploring the intersection of nature and tech by turning Next Nature's speculative process into workshops so you too can explore the world from a Next Nature point of view by future prototyping techniques & tools. (freelance)

I (co)develop new curricula and share my expertise on how to research the future with students in lectures and workshops. Also guest lecturing at international partner universities and academies and part of the academic circle (lectoraat).

Intrapreneurial job at the trend department of MARE: researching trends, finding innovators and sharing the insights via presentations, workshops and books.

Freelancing in market and trend research for e.g. Philips | Happen London | NIGZ | The Choice | Twente University | OGZ Conferences | Hogeschool Utrecht

Just wanted to see what's happening on the other side of the world.Did voluntary work in Mongolia and travelled through China, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands & Canada.

Senior advisor and team leader at youth communication agency YoungWorks in Amsterdam. Youth communication is a fast paced and dynamic work field. I developed new products and services related to youth research, trends and workshops.

Conducting qualitative research for A brands in the FMCG market with a main focus on communication research. Moderating focus groups, analysing results and giving advice within the field of marketing research.

Audience and media research for all public Dutch broadcasters at KLO (Kijk- en Luisteronderzoek - department of audience research). Focus on qualitative research, mainly pilottesting of tv-formats.Conducted a large scale quantitative research project on the media use of ethnic minorities.