I didn't start in coaching.
After completing a Masters in Applied Economics and a Postgraduate in Sports Management in 2012, I made one decision: I postponed the career I had prepared for and started building something of my own instead.
Together with one of my closest friends, I co-founded Elite Athletes - a sports innovation company that grew into one of the first movement facilities in the Benelux, a basketball academy, and a continuous series of year-round camps that reached players in over 40 countries across 5 continents.
We worked with organizations including the NBA, Jr. NBA, national as well as local open-minded clubs all over Europe. I invented the role of Play-Perform Director for myself because no existing title fit what I was actually doing.
I like to think my real education started the day I graduated.
What followed was a decade of going wherever my questions led. I studied Stoic philosophers, attended multiple week-long Buddhist meditation retreats, learned privately from Taoist and Sufi teachers, trained four to six hours a day for multiple years in movement culture practices, tried opera singing, spent hundreds of hours sweating with dancers and artists, trained in somatic therapies, and joined lucid dreaming and dream interpretation training groups. I worked with teachers including Nir Adin, Natalia Pieczuro, Ido Portal, Kit Laughlin, Yuval Ayalon, Tom Weksler, Andreo Spina, Steve Maxwell, Andrew Austin, and Serge Augier, among many others.
The practice that has shaped my work most profoundly is Fighting Monkey - a multidisciplinary movement research platform created by Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea, drawing from martial arts, contemporary dance, improvisation, athletics, and embodied research since 2002. I have studied directly with Jozef and Linda for over seven years - more than 30 workshops, private guidance, and seven week-long intensives. Fighting Monkey is built around one question: “how do you practice today if you don't know what tomorrow brings?”
Its practice develops the capacity to stay effective, creative, and responsive under changing and unpredictable conditions. It is not a fitness system. It is a way of thinking through the body, and it has permanently shaped how I understand movement, perception, and what it means to be genuinely present with another person.
Today I work one-on-one with entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and coaches who sense that something beneath the surface is running the show.
We use the body as a thinking partner - not to fix, but to understand. Not to optimize, but to see more clearly.
I have worked with people from 6 to 75 years old across 15 countries, at organizations including the NBA, insurance companies, human resources departments, physical education programs, school teachers, yoga schools, and creative hubs. Since 2015 I have been running Reheats - immersive practice weekends that began as an experiment for gym members and have grown into one of the most alive parts of my work.
The most important thing I have learned across all of it is that not knowing is the best ground from which to keep listening, learning, and receiving direction.
That intention - staying genuinely open rather than arriving with answers - is what I try to bring into every session.
If reading this feels grounding rather than impressive, we'll likely work well together.