Who's who?

Marleen Boen - PCC (MCC file submitted)

Marleen Boen is Belgian, trainer and coach with a long practical experience as business and salesmanager. She has a solid professional management experience what makes her a dedicated, passionate and realistic trainer and coach. As trainer and coach she has worked with companies in the ICT, bank – and insurance world, callcenters and technology. Through her international contacts she has a rich experience with different cultures.
She has been trained in systemics, organisational constellations, Enneagram, Ericksonian hypnosis and she is an international certified NLP-trainer. She organises NLP-trainings and is training coaches to become coach. She actively coaches managers and their teams to a higher level of efficiency and awareness and she also coaches managers in their life transitions and career management.

Leen Lambrechts - MCC

Leen is coaching since 1991. She has been a teacher for teachers in the higher education and ran her own outdoor organisation. She worked for different multinational organisations, such as DHL Europe as a training and development officer and as responsible. She mainly learned coaching by doing. She assembled her knowledge over the years through different coaching courses with The Association voor Coaching in the Netherlands and through John Whitmore. She has a master degree and thereafter studied Informatics as well as Training and Development with the ITD. In 1995 she started "Coaching Association Belgium", as the first specialised organisation in coaching in Belgium, together with Willem Verhoeven (author of the best seller “Managing without hierarchy” and “The Manager Coach”). As from 2001 her collaboration with a big HR Consulting firm resulted in a 1.5 year training for certified personal coaches in Belgium and the Netherlands. Leen is a full time trainer and coach. She is very experienced in designing coaching programs, setting up long development trajects and in coaching managers in competency development. In 2006 she specialised in systemic and organisational constellations with Johannes B. Schmidt to integrate this way of connecting to the relevant field information in coaching projects.

Françoise Sax - PCC

PhD in Labor Law, she always focuses on the human being within his professional and private systems. Twenty-four years ago, she created her company "Centre des Techniques de Valorisation" with the aim at contributing to the improvement of human talent and the structures where they work. The man bearing scars and wounds who walks with pride has more value for her than the hyper-performing athlete. Her approach of coaching is therefore very human though perfectly connected to concrete results. She is, notably, Master-Practitioner in NLP, Practitioner in Ericksonian Hypnosis, in Systems Approach and Enneagram. She performed more than 6400 hours of corporate training. She is currently in the process of certification for the status of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation. She has been presiding the Commission of Ethics of ICF Belgium since 2002. She was elected Secretary General of ICF Belgium in 2004.
 

Kathleen Bosman - PCC file submitted

Kathleen Bosman is a seasoned business professional who has more than 25 years of corporate experience in different areas of HR management and Sales Management in international organizations (ITT, Citigroup, Unilever). She has had leadership responsibility over teams from 5 to 200 people and has built her knowledge further, on the one hand by continued training and studies in Personal Leadership (Reddin, Senn Delaney), Consulting Skills, MBTI, Leadership & Coaching (John Whitmore) and HR Management (Mercer Delta & Kluwer) and on the other hand by testing and integrating this “theoretical” knowledge in her daily management practice a.o. as Regional Sales Manager for Citibank Belgium and in different areas of Human Resources, a.o. as Training & Development Manager of Citibank Belgium, as Head Organisational & Cultural Development Citibank Northern Europe and as HR Manager Sales & Marketing for Citibank and later for Unilever, where she trained the Board and the entire management population on the use of the GROW model (John Whitmore)and the principles of Performance Coaching. She has a track record of more than 3200 training hours in people management, leadership, performance management, sales management & change management. Today she is a Certified Coach with more than 650 hours of coaching experience and she coaches Leaders and Line Managers in the areas of Personal Leadership, Strategy, People management, Performance Management and personal change. Kathleen is a passionate coach who combines result-orientedness and drive with respect and patience for the individual growth process of the coachee. She creates a climate of trust, openness, integrity and respect for the coachee and her approach is in-depth, pragmatic, visual and concrete. She is a positive thinker, is solution-oriented and wants to achieve results together with people by making them stronger and more able to achieve positive results. She is MBTI-accredited and has co-operated to the translation of a book on MBTI “you’ve got Personality” (Mary McGuiness).

Xavier Van Oost - PCC

Xavier Van Oost started his career as physiotherapist at St Jean Hospital in Brussels. After 5 years, he joined the pharmaceutical industry as Medical Representative, District Manager and finally Product Manager. Here, he acquired Sales & Marketing and People Management experience. During 10 years, he recruited, trained & coached Medical Representatives. In 2001, he left his position to enter the Medical Press and Health Communication World. This B2B activity brought him a larger experience of Account Management & CRM. Xavier did his ICF ACTP program in 2005 & got his ACC certification in 2006. He joined The Coaching Square in 2009 to give trainings in French. He has got more than 750 hours of business & life coaching experience & more than 120 in coaching training. Recently Xavier stopped his international consultant activity to focus on Business coaching & Training for Coaches. He has been trained in Transactional Analysis, NLP & Enneagram. Xavier coaches managers on efficiency, assertivity , career management & life transitions. 

Dirk De Clippeleir

Dirk decided to move to coaching after 25 years of business experience, of which 17 years as CEO at EMI and Universal Music.  As a CEO he has experienced the power of working with a coach over a long period of time.  He felt that the combination of his experience as an executive with his coaching skills would make a good match for business people who want stretch themselves in their profession.
As a coach Dirk is interested in making people better at what they do.  He believes one should focus on his/her strengths.  His coaching style is direct and goal oriented.
Over the past 2,5 years he has built a broad coaching experience in very different companies, working with groups and individuals.