MT/Sprout is the platform for entrepreneurs behind high-growth startups and scaleups and the leadership talent within serious organizations. My focus: leadership & management, work & life.

Experienced Coaching & Communication professionals for personal or business development. Working on your inside and outside. A powerful combination.

Award-winning businessmagazine for leaders. Focus on leadership, management and business. Building the MT brand from scratch in Belgium, a success from day one.2016 BtoB Press award for best launch in print2017 BtoB Press award for best online launch2018 BtoB Press award for best contentManaging a diverse team with freelance journalists, columnists and business partners. And all of this working remote.

Developing a new business unit, focus on PR and Corporate Communications. Design and implement communication strategies, advise with and execute press campaigns, provide interview and media training, Managing Editor of several magazines. Clients in construction, environment, tourism, consultancy, ngo, fmcg...

Corporate Communication & Product Communication, PR, Copy writing, Editing, Corporate Photography and a touch of Real Estate Management.

The number 1 daily paper in Belgium (1 million readers). Copy Editor on page 1, features and lifestyle magazines. Senior writer for the national and international news desk.

Deputy Director of the communications and marketing department in Belgium and Luxemburg, Managing Editor of the award winning employee magazine Allround. Advise general and business unit management on corporate, marketing and employee communications, streamline internal communications, improve the use of the sponsorship of Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin (N°1 tennis players).

Restoring the department that develops, coordinates and organizes PR/communication strategies and activities for Philips (40.000 employees and 33 offices/plants in the Netherlands). Design and implement, in close co-operation with the international business units, communication strategies aimed at launching new products (dvd, flatscreen, mp3, Senseo) in the Netherlands. Press Officer and spokesperson for the general management (millennium bug, closure of Philips Lightning Terneuzen… Show more Restoring the department that develops, coordinates and organizes PR/communication strategies and activities for Philips (40.000 employees and 33 offices/plants in the Netherlands). Design and implement, in close co-operation with the international business units, communication strategies aimed at launching new products (dvd, flatscreen, mp3, Senseo) in the Netherlands. Press Officer and spokesperson for the general management (millennium bug, closure of Philips Lightning Terneuzen, environmental issues, recalls…). Show less

I started my career in journalism in 1989 at Sijthoff Pers (Leidse Courant - city desk & politics), joined the senior writers at Pers Unie (features, national and international news). After the merger between Pers Unie and GPD I joined the economic desk.