For the past 25 years I have been helping organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors learn to communicate more effectively. I help people enhance their performance as professionals when it comes to writing and speaking in English.
Two and half decades of hands-on experience in giving workshops, courses and individual coaching has given me ample opportunity to further develop and finetune the skills I learned in various train-the-trainer workshops over the years.
As a writer [see Publications], I am well aware of the kinds of challenges my clients face: determining the overall message, selecting the most relevant information, structuring it in a logical way and choosing the right tone in which to formulate it.
Besides giving workshops and coaching individuals in companies and organisations, I have also taught various academic courses.
- For three years (2015–2018) I taught Dutch-to-English translation to third-year bachelor students at ITV Hogeschool voor Tolken en Vertalen.
- For three semesters (2012–2013) I taught a weekly course and provided coaching on writing in English to students enrolled in the Cross Cultural Business Skills minor programme in the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).
- For six years (2006–2012) I taught an eight-week course Writing English That’s Fit to Print (formerly: Writing in English for the Media) at Hogeschool Utrecht (offered twice yearly).
- From three years (1993–1996), while I was working on my PhD, I taught courses on Old Frisian Literature at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit.
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