The Coaches
Christine van der Ven
Tiara Program Coach
Christine has a business background. After finishing her MBA in 1985 at RSM-predecessor IIB in Delft and Barcelona, she started her career at Royal Dutch Shell: product manager, account manager, trader. She held positions as marketing manager and marketing services manager before she specialized 1994 as an independent change manager and was hired to build, restructure or reposition departments for several large companies and to exercise temporarily general management for small enterprises.
She is recognized as a people manager. Results must be delivered, but always in a sustainable way, thus through motivated people. Most people are happy to develop and grow, but none of us like to be changed by others telling them to do so! Christine has the practical knowledge and tools on how to focus co-workers to participate from inspiration in a the task or change at hand.
After taking various trainings and earning licenses in the field of strategic business coaching and facilitation of teams, Christine couples her business knowledge to an agile ability to coach. In 2002 she shifts her work to coaching business managers in leading their businesses and -teams successfully to new perspectives, initiatives and higher results. Her clients report increasing results and joy at work beyond expectation!
Over the years she has worked for large and small companies in the Netherlands and on Curacao, like ANWB, ING, Aegon, Elsevier, TUI Nederland, Unilever, Avila Beach Hotel, Equity Trust, UNESCO-IHE , Da Vinci College, ROC Drenthe College, FysioLogic and many business owners of SME.
Being a woman whose performances particularly thrive under conditions that tap on her authentic inspiration and inner power, Christine immediately recognized the powerful impact of Tiara’s philosophy and methodology, especially on women. It made her stand up as co-founder of Tiara Netherlands (2009). She is fully dedicated to support the exceptional women that we all are to invent new ways to live our lifes the way we love, and at the same time to be influential in the business world and the society at large, under our own conditions that make us thrive.