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KOA

KOA is Japanese for core, center, axis through the middle, heart. The name comes from my experience that you can get in touch with yourself by going to your core.

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From contact with your core you enter into a sustainable equal connection with the world and you inspire people to make the connection with themselves.

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We go through this process together.

Who are you? For you as...

As a human organism, you fulfill your role in organizations, which are by definition organic and dynamic. You do this together with other human organisms.

You as a parent or child within a family, you as a leader or employee of a team, you as an investor or founder in a company, you on a board of directors, and so on. Really get to know yourself, grow as a person and integrate different roles in your life from your own core.

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For you as an individual

Connect with your core and become more free in your life.
Learn to feel, how to give meaning to your emotions, learn what your needs are, how you can fulfill your needs in a flexible way and how you can bear not meeting your needs yourself.
Gain insight into your own patterns, and learn to deal with your patterns more consciously, maybe even take new steps.
If you can accept yourself as you are, then the change will occur.
Get a clear picture of how you enter into relationships, how you look at other people and how people experience you.

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For impact companies or funds

Companies have different needs depending on the stage they are in. There are business needs, such as financial reporting, market approach and technological issues. At the same time, a company is also a collective of complementary people, where it is necessary that each person can use himself as best as possible, and not only give and receive compliments, but also name difficult subjects and tensions.

Various forms of support are possible: as an investment, facilitating a process or specific challenge or more long-term involvement in a board of directors or another policy body.

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For you as an impact entrepreneur or changemaker

As an impact entrepreneur or changemaker you want to realize something, and you want to put something into the world. You have something to offer the world, and the world needs something from you. 
By clarifying what you have to do here or what your "purpose" is, and by investigating how you came to be who you are, you can find an inexhaustible source of energy and you can move mountains with which you can make a difference. can be in your organization and in the world. 

But entrepreneurship is not only dreaming, but also executing a lot and making decisions. You always have to work with other people for this, as employees, partners, customers, investors, government, unions, and the like. Getting in touch with others from your own core and clarifying what your need is, and from there making authentic contact with the core of the other person and gaining insight into their needs; this way you can feel supported and supported. 

"Alone you go faster, together you go further."

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For you as an impact investor

As an impact investor you want to handle your capital in the right way. Money is considered very important in this world, and everyone has  convictions about the way you should handle your money. 
By making contact with your own framework, on a rational and emotional level, you can choose more consciously what drives you as an investor.
Take yourself seriously in this, accept your own actions and your own past, and at the same time dare to question your choices. Set up experiments and experience how you want to shape your life as an investor.
Financial advisers often have a very one-sided approach, are often involved parties and often hide their own preferences in order to appear as neutral as possible. By having authentic contact with another investor, a new kind of conversation is created, in which equal people come to a reciprocal exchange.

What customers experience

"I am the founder of a climate tech start-up and know Klaas through a network of entrepreneurs. Klaas advises us as a company to grow sustainably, based on his own entrepreneurial experience. In addition, Klaas personally coaches me to grow as a leader of to find and maintain a team and a balanced work-life balance What I personally appreciate very much in the collaboration with Klaas is the “safe space” he creates to name things as they are on an equal footing, in complete openness and trust be or feel."

Kenneth Van Den Bergh, Founder and CEO, Carbon+Alt+Delete

The core of what I do

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I have been lucky enough to experience different extremes in my life. Programmer, CTO and CEO of a technology company, son-in-law in a family business, unemployed, therapist, investor, father, married and divorced... With my background I get in touch with you as a human being with your own experiences, we meet and explore what then arises. I guide the process and strive for an equal and reciprocal contact, without one of us having to be bigger or smaller than the other. This often leads to connection. Connection between us and connection with yourself and connection with the people around you.

Sometimes this is on a deeply therapeutic and personal level, other times it is as tactical guidance or business advice. Sometimes as a therapist or coach, as an external director, as a member of an investment committee or as an investor. Always based on authenticity to meet current needs.

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What do I have to offer?

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As a coach and therapist, I help you to get to know yourself better. yourself as an individual, entrepreneur or changemaker and to go out into the world from there. 

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As an impact investor, I can help you with the necessary funds to provide your impact company with the necessary oxygen and thus improve the world. I am also available for other impact investors.

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Governing Bodies

As an external director, external advisor or in an investment committee, I use my background to benefit your objectives within the greater whole.

Get to know me

First read a bit about my background or contact me for an introductory meeting.

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