Our Team

Yvon Golbach

Expert on Labor Market Innovation | Corporate Trainer | ICF Certified Coach

Meet Yvonne

Founder, Yvon Golbach, is an expert on contemporary careers, sustainable performance, and the well-being of human capital in organizations. 

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For years she was responsible for energy management, well-being, and corporate wellness in several corporate environments, such as Johnson & Johnson, where she was part of the EU Leadership team, responsible for Employee Health and Well-Being. Yvon’s contribution impacted thousands of people, across 45+ countries, helping them to be happier, better versions of themselves, while also increasing their performance. Her in-depth knowledge of how to manage energy effectively has led to people being physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, & spiritually aligned. She is passionate about what drives motivation and knows how to let individuals perform and excel, without compromising their happiness and long-term health. Her insights into organizational culture creation, personal leadership, and performance in high-pressure environments are transforming organizations, helping to create a modern talent culture in which subjective success and self-management are the standards. 

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Yvon is also an international Corporate Athlete Trainer, ICF certified coach, leader in the field of contemporary career management, and Academy partner of TalentlogiQs®, a spin-off of the University of Antwerp, all of which have positioned her at the center of mobilizing positive change and inspiring action.

Caroline Thomas

Expert on sustainable careers and workforce development | Trainer | Coach

Caroline Thomas, is a leading expert, facilitator and coach, in the field of HR Leadership, Talent Development and Sustainable Careers. Her holistic and extensive experience is deep-rooted in years of safeguarding both people and processes related to change management, organisational and talent development, performance management, and learning within several corporate environments. Her focus on cultivating successful organizations, coupled with her genuine care for, and belief in people and their abilities, has led to her initiating transformational programs that create spaces for growth and meaningful change. 

As Partner at Zest, she is co-piloting the business with a focus on Career / Talent Development consulting services and learning products, and represents Zest in the Swiss and French markets. She works as an impactful and trustful partner for organisations and their employees focusing on developing the environment, capabilities and mindset required to build win-win career pathways – engaging and successful for both parties. Specialising in work-life integration and sustainable employability is ideally aligned with her passion for people and her deep interest in behavioural science. Caroline is also a Certified co-active Coach, having completed her coaching education with the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), one of the largest experiential coaching training organisations in the world. Beyond her work, Caroline enjoys nature and mountains, she is also passionate about art and culture.

Jenn Callaway

Regional Business Lead – North America | Global Head of Operations & Sales

With over 20 years of experience in education, training, and consulting across North America, Europe, and Asia, Jenn has worn many hats—strategist, consultant, leader, trainer, and operational expert. She has extensive experience working in and collaborating with companies across a diverse range of industries, including high tech, manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, professional services, education, and public sector. Whether guiding teams through transformation or advising executives on strategy, she is committed to driving results without burning people out.

Her passion for neuroscience, behavioural psychology, and the connection between the nervous system and performance began during her years as a dedicated competitive athlete. This foundation has shaped her people-first approach, influencing the way she leads, supports, and empowers others. Before joining Zest, Jenn collaborated closely with executives to integrate neuroscience-based communication principles and behavioural psychology insights into their sales messaging, internal communications, and board presentations. 

Believing that high performance and employee wellbeing go hand in hand, Jenn has brought her expertise and energy to Zest, where she oversees global sales and operations and leads the North American business. She is committed to fostering sustainable growth for Zest clients, building stress-wise teams, and creating environments where both people and organizations thrive.

Rochelle Barreto

Marketing Lead | Energy & Resilience Trainer

With over 20 years of experience in advertising and CPG marketing, Rochelle is a seasoned brand-building leader recognized for transforming and driving growth for some of the world’s most iconic global brands. At Johnson & Johnson, she led high-impact strategies, managed multi-million-dollar P&Ls, and led high-performing teams to deliver consumer-centric experiences across diverse markets. Rochelle excels at developing big brand ideas grounded in consumer understanding, driving long-term brand equity. Recognized as a results-driven and empathetic people leader, she placed a strong emphasis on developing talent and fostering high-performing, engaged teams. During her time at J&J, she also became a certified Energy Management Trainer—deepening her passion for helping individuals sustain their energy and performance.

Rochelle now channels her expertise into building a dynamic portfolio career blending marketing leadership with her passion for business and people development. As a Fractional CMO, Innovation Strategist, and Energy & Resilience Coach, she helps organizations accelerate growth, while equipping individuals with skills for sustainable performance in today’s changing landscape.

As the Marketing Leader at Zest for Work, Rochelle is a strategic member of our remote core team: her focus is to drive healthy and sustainable growth for our Business. She’s leading the Zest global marketing strategy and execution plan and developing the business and managing key accounts in the Middle East.

As a certified Energy Management & Resilience Trainer, she is also joining our Trainers’ community covering the Middle East and Asia. 

Rochelle is a passionate yogi and loves to travel and immerse herself in new cultural experiences. 

Jane Simonsen

Online Business Manager, Energy for life Trainer, IT guru

Our Online Business Manager, Jane, enjoys putting her project management, planning, and organizational skills to good use in environments that are centered on positively impacting people’s lives. At Zest, she runs the show to orchestrate smooth and successful services delivery to our clients. She brings structure to our small “factory” and set up the right Tech environment for our team.

She is a certified online trainer on our “Energy for Life” program, that fits perfectly with her passion for helping people achieve their potential ! She believes in the power of people and what is possible when we understand what drives our motivation and are given the correct tools to be our best.

For 4 years, she produced technology conferences in the HR and Recruitment space, celebrating the ideas, talent and technologies that are transforming the future of work. Jane also has a degree in Psychology and Criminology and a post-grad in Foundation Phase Education. She loves bright colors and generally has no qualm wearing them all at once. She also loves Latin music and dancing to it whilst cooking.

Natascha Gresse

Marketing Specialist | Design Wizard | Client & Logistics Orchestrator

Natascha has 5+ years of administrative and office support experience, honing her creative problem solving, planning and organisation skills to provide support to clients in multiple industries from FinTech to Art and Fashion to Education. She has a degree in Community Development and an honours degree in Development Studies with a focus on sustainable development and human security. She is passionate about creating environments that facilitate sustainable positive impact that ripples from the individual to the community.  

At Zest, Natascha provides logistical and technical support to our trainers and clients to ensure that all training sessions run smoothly. She is also the resident digital marketing guru using her creative and strategical thinking skills to create engaging content that showcase the voice and services of Zest for Work. 

Natascha loves reading, mostly historic fiction and fantasy that allows her to use her imagination, or biographies that are different to her personal experiences and will challenge her way of thinking. She loves baking for her friends and family and believe the best way to make lifelong friends is to eat together. 

Ronwyn van der Riet

Training Coordinator | Moderator

Ronwyn is an outdoor enthusiast with a deep passion for adventure. Whether hiking scenic trails or unwinding on Cape Town’s beautiful beaches, she thrives in the natural world. A true people-person, Ronwyn loves hosting gatherings for family and friends and enjoys meeting new people to build lasting connections.

While she embraces an active, dynamic lifestyle, Ronwyn values balance and finding peace through yoga and meditation. She channels her creativity into photography, art, and design, drawing inspiration from the world around her and incorporating this into her work.

At Zest, Ronwyn ensures seamless planning and logistics for training programs, both online and in-person, and supports smooth online training deliveries by keeping everything behind the scenes running smoothly.

Mila

Chief Happiness Officer, Energizer, Cuddle expert

Our Chief Happiness Officer, Mila, brings playfulness, positive emotions and energy to the team.  

She is highly skilled in energy management, she brings in the right amount of stress and recovery to every day! She forces us to move regularly and breath fresh air! 

During challenging times, as an expert cuddler, she helps our team release tension. She also trains all of us to enjoy the present moment (including ice creams!!).

Her street dog roots fits perfectly well with our non-conventional approach to work. Why following the road when you can actually explore the side ways?

Arturo Figar

Energy & Resilience Trainer, BSc (Hons), PGCE

Arturo is based in Madrid, Spain, and has 20 years of work experience. Most of his professional life has been in the finance industry, in New York and London.

He has been teaching corporate health and wellness courses since 2018. Trained by the Human Performance Institute, Arturo worked as an Energy Management coach for a large Fortune 500 company across EMEA. ​As of December 2021, he has coached more than 50 energy management courses to more than 600 people. 

At Zest for Work, Arturo works as a coach for the Energy for Life course, primarily but not only focused on the Spain market. 

In addition, Arturo is a leadership development trainer and consultant for mid and large-sized companies in the EMEA region. He also facilitates digitalization fundamentals workshops from the IMD in Lausanne.  

In his spare time, Arturo enjoys cycling, reading, nature, eating out, and traveling. ​He has two daughters, 19 nieces and nephews, and 51 first cousins!

Prof. Beatrice van der Heijden PhD

Academy Associate

Professor Beatrice van der Heijden PhD is trained as a Work- and Organizational psychologist (Radboud University) and received a PhD in Human Resource Management at Twente University. She is specialized in sustainable careers, employability, and aging at work. She is Head of the Department Strategic HRM at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Moreover, she occupies a Chair in Strategic HRM at the Open Universiteit Nederland, at Ghent University, Belgium, at Hubei University, Wuhan, China and at Kingston University, London, UK. She is also Associate Editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Co-Editor for the German Journal of Human Resource Management and Editorial Board member for several other journals. In 2019, Beatrice has been appointed as a member of the Academy of Europe, and in 2022 as a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is a Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands since 2021. 

In her role as Zest for Work’s Academy Associate, Beatrice brings evidence-based academic advice on our products and services, especially regarding our learning content and assessments. She actively contributes to knowledge dissemination for our community as well. In her free time, she loves to travel and to see as many countries in the world as possible, to spent time in the nature, reading, dancing and cooking. 

Throughout her career, Beatrice has adopted a psychological approach within business administration research. Together with Ans de Vos she has launched the notion of Sustainable Careers in 2015 and created the Process Model of Sustainable Careers in 2020 together with Ans and Jos Akkermans, which is set apart from existing career models through its multiple-stakeholder approach, and wherein they posit that the dynamic interplay between the person and their context, together with attention for changes over time, form the foundation for (un)sustainable careers. The three indicators for sustainable careers, that is, happiness, health, and productivity, that Beatrice introduced in the career literature in 2005 imply that careers are sustainable when both the individual employee’s goals and those from their employer are carefully aligned over time. In doing so, Beatrice stresses the need to integrate the well-being and performance-oriented streams in the literature. 

Next to this, she also shaped international career research in two other key ways. She has developed two domain-independent and psychometrically sound (i.e., valid and reliable) measurement instruments: on occupational expertise and on employability. Second, she has uncovered the predictive value of several individual, job-related, and organizational determinants (e.g., HRM policies and activities) for the achievement of expert behavior, employability, successful ageing at work versus premature retirement, and objective/subjective career success across several occupational domains. 

Her work has been published in, among others, Journal of Vocational Behavior, HRM, HRDQ, Human Relations, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Career Development International, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Annals. She is Co-Editor of the Handbook of Research on Sustainable Careers (EE Publishing). 

Bill Spreitzer

Energy Trainer

Bill worked for over 26 years in corporate America with Fortune 500 and privately-held companies.  During his first 8 years of his career with Hewlett Packard, Bill managed and led teams and organizations in such functions as supply chain management, production planning and control, global transportation & distribution, and human resources.  Bill spent 15 years of his career with high tech manufacturing services companies in the areas of international business development, sales, marketing, and global account management. 

In 2007, Bill became a senior partner with Excellerate Solutions, a business coaching and training practice.  He focuses his expertise in the areas of leadership and team development, employee engagement, and organizational development based on linking people’s passions and purpose to the organization’s mission for mutual success.  Bill continues to work extensively in the field of energy management and resilience for large corporate clients. 

Services include: one-on-one and group coaching for emerging and experienced leaders; virtual and in-person training/development programs; use of validated assessment tools with individuals and teams; keynote talks.

Bill holds a B.A. degree in business from Michigan State University. Bill became a certified business coach through Resource Associates Corporation’s Coaching Academy in 2009 and graduated from North Carolina State University’s 10-month Business Coaching program in 2015.  

He lives in Belmont, NC with his wife Michelle and has two adult children, Krista and Bryan. His hobbies and interests include: reading, golfing, hiking, exercising, watching movies, music, and all sports. 

Cathy Zhao

Energy & Resilience Trainer

Cathy has more than 25 years of experience working as senior HR leader in several Fortune 500 companies including GM, NIKE and Johnson & Johnson. Due to her great passion on human wellbeing, she transitioned herself to be a performance coach to focus on helping individuals and organizations maximize energy, unleash full potential and inspire purposeful living.

Cathy earned her MBA degree from McGill University. She is a certified professional executive coach by ICF, and a certified nutritionist.  ​ 

As Certified Energy for Life trainer based in Shanghai, Cathy is part of our Trainer’s Community, delivering our trainings in the China region.

Fábio Soares

Energy Trainer

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Fábio has  over 10 years of experience in mental health and well-being, he specialize in training and coaching individuals and organizations to optimize their emotional and psychological wellness. 

Since 2018, he have served as a Coach for Energy for Performance, Energy for Life and Resilience programs, having trained over 1500 individuals to enhance their performance and overall well-being. He brings extensive expertise in corporate training, having served as a program coordinator for employee assistance and mental health events within a multinational company. During this time, he developed and facilitated programs aimed at enhancing employee resilience, stress management, and overall mental wellness.

Psychologist, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and with a background in Positive Psychology, his approach integrates evidence-based strategies to empower individuals to thrive in challenging work environments. He is dedicated to fostering a supportive and proactive culture of mental wellness within organizations.

Outside of work, he is happily married with a two-year-old son. He enjoys exploring nature through hiking trails, cooking delicious meals, and diving into enriching books.

Floor Reeze

Career Coach & ACT Trainer

Floor has almost 20 years of experience as a Career coach to highly educated people. She also works as an ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Training) Trainer and trainer of coaches and therapists. She has a background in the study of Facility Management and Communication. 

Getting people and organisations moving is what drives her in work. How can you do what is value-driven, with all the uncertainties, unhelpful thoughts and tensions that this sometimes brings? Floor’s passion is to help people clarify their values and let them become the compass for their actions. And in doing so, relate to their thoughts, beliefs and feelings differently when they get in the way. With her no-nonsense style and open attitude, she connects easily and builds strong relationships. 

Floor loves to be on the move: running, boot-camping, mountain hiking and cycling across Europe with just a small tent. Nothing can make her happier.

Hartmut Kretschmer

Energy & Resilience Trainer

Hartmut looks back on more than 25 years of leadership experience in large international corporations. He discovered his passion for the development of organisations, teams, and people early on and as an HR Executive, Hartmut initiated and led various local and regional change processes.

Since 2016, Hartmut has been working as an independent consultant, trainer, and coach. He and his business partner specialise in leadership development, career development, and executive coaching. In Johnson & Johnson’s Energy for Performance programme, he has, as a certified HPI coach, accompanied over 100 groups on their way to more energy and joy in life. Hartmut has a special interest in the integration of energy management and leadership. He is a certified NLP Master Practitioner (BSO) and Career Fitness Profiler (TALENTLOGIQS). 

 At Zest for Work, he has been active as a trainer in German-speaking countries since the beginning of 2021. 

Hartmut is fascinated by the beauty and magic of nature. When he is not out and about with his dog Vasco in the Lucerne area, he can be found on his yoga mat, on hiking or ski tours in the Swiss Grisons mountains, picking herbs and mushrooms, or sailing in the Mediterranean. In addition, he is involved in the local scout organisation and has been a mentor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences for many years.

Heike Mischler

Trainer & Health & Fitness Coach

Heike Mischler Pera is German and lives in Lugano, Switzerland. She is a business economist with a background in business development and corporate health management. 

Her professional competence in holistic health is her passion. She likes to inspire people to achieve their goals starting with small changes which bring a big positive impact. Implementing a health management system in the corporate world to create a win-win situation for both employer and employees is her motivation and objective.

Heike is a certified fitness instructor (SAFS / AFAA) with 20 years of fitness coaching experience facilitating all different kinds of fitness classes on company site as well as personal training. She has been working since 2017 as an Energy for Performance (E4P) coach within Johnson & Johnson across EMEA regions, mainly in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. 

When Heike is not helping others ignite their own energy, she spends time with her daughter and husband, not to forget her little Kooiker Hundje dog, which keeps her active and energized as well as different sports like hiking, fitness, swimming, and tennis.

Jeannie Jones

Energy Trainer

Leveraging a 32 year career including award winning corporate experience, Jeannie started her own consulting business in 2022. As an Independent Consultant, Performance Coach, and Facilitator, she specializes in inspiring and empowering healthy high performance for individuals, leaders, and teams. 

An accomplished professional with a passion for ongoing development, she rounded out her experience by earning the following certifications/certificates between 2022-2024:

* 5 Behaviors® Practitioner
* Wellness Practitioner (National Wellness Institute) 
* Mental Health First Aider (National Council for Mental Wellbeing) 
* DiSC® Practitioner 
* Certificate in the “Science of Happiness” (Berkeley) 

She also became an Authorized Partner with Coaching on the Go and completed the Positive Intelligence® Coaching Grant Program. 

Working in HR, adjacent to Organizational Development, Benefits, Procurement and Governance/Assurance, she’s garnered a 360 view of employee health & wellbeing. 

She recharges by spending time with family and friends, playing tennis, saltwater fishing and taking long walks with her black lab, Skynyrd.

John Grocott

Energy Trainer | Facilitator

John Grocott is based in Inverness, Scotland and has a background in the petrochemical and medical device industries. He has over 25 years of experience in coaching, and has been teaching corporate health and wellness courses since 2014, working as an Energy for Performance (E4P) coach within Johnson & Johnson across the US and EMEA regions. He also acts as a Corporate Athlete energy management facilitator in other multinational companies.

Jon Hill

Energy & Resilience Trainer, ICF Coach, MSc Psychology

Jon is an experienced corporate trainer and executive coach, specialized in working with groups and individuals around leadership, well-being and resilience. With a background in health and social care, Jon now works with a range of clients within the corporate and the public sector. 

Within his work with his clients, he specializes in helping people to maximize their impact, and to thrive in an increasingly complex and demanding world by focusing on developing habits that increase energy and maintain resilience. 

Jon holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Forensic Psychology. He is also an accredited Co-Active Coach, certified with the International Coaching Federation. 

In recent years he has developed a focus on mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Jon has co-authored two books – popular self-help title ‘ACTivate Your Life’ (2015) and 2019’s Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: Distinctive Features.

Lars Veerhoff

Datanerd and educationalist with a passion for motivation

Lars is affiliated with Zest for Work as an educational and motivational specialist. He deals with questionnaire development and data analysis. He has been working in various educational institutions for more than 15 years. During these years he has developed from executing, to directing, to investigating and guiding. Nowadays he is involved in educational research and guiding educational professionals in transitions that changing environments demands from them. The individual norms, values and beliefs of individuals are the starting point of the conversation.

Within Zest for Work, he brings his years of knowledge of learning and expertise in the field of motivation (SDT) and research to support our team in the development of new learning methods based on an evidence-based concept. This is what he also likes to do most; finding evidence to properly interpret the human story behind it. This requires interaction and a good translation of the most recent scientific insights into learning and the development hereof into a practical and effective concept. Support and mutual trust are key concepts for making developments sustainable.

Lenneke van Keulen

Energy Trainer

Lenneke is a passionate trainer with a broad interest. Being educated in the field of Educational Science & Technology, she has been working with groups as a trainer or facilitator since 2004. Her strength is her focus to make solutions work in practice. In 2018, she completed a 3-year personal development journey at ITIP, school for life and work. This education has made her milder and more deeply understanding. She knows how to create a safe setting where people feel seen without judgment.

She has a broad experience in team development and individual coaching and since 2015 she has been committed to Johnson & Johnson as a freelance Energy for Performance coach. The latter fits well with her lifestyle. Lenneke likes to be outdoors, rides her roadbike all seasons (around 7.000 km a year), plays squash (edge of top 100 Dutch ladies) and she starts every morning with a cold shower. In holidays she brings along the paddleboard, hiking boots and of course her roadbike. Her goal is to always be fit enough for any adventure! Lenneke is focused on making a difference with small changes that are achievable in a busy family life. Lenneke is married to Hans and mother of two girls.

As part of the Trainers community of Zest for Work, Lenneke delivers the Energy 4 Life training and the Career Discovery training. Mobilizing people to their best performance in business as well as in private life and supporting them to translate their personal goals into practical micro habits, fits perfectly with her vision on learning and change. 

Louise Ramsay

Energy Trainer

Louise is a dynamic professional dedicated to optimising human performance in high-pressure environments. With over 15 years of experience in senior management roles within the outdoor and event industry, she intimately understands the challenges of weaving together work and life. In 2011, driven by her passion for and wellbeing, Louise transitioned her career to empower others to reach their full potential both professionally and personally.

Louise brings a wealth of expertise to her role having trained as a corporate trainer with the Human Performance Institute, is an International Coaching Federation accredited coach, Career Fitness Profiler (TALENTLOGIQS), Certified Personal Trainer, and Sports and Exercise Nutritionist (Pn Level 2). Her commitment to staying at the forefront of her field led her to pursue an MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing at the University of Nottingham in 2016, where she graduated with Distinction and was awarded a competitive scholarship from BP.  

Known for her passion, professionalism, and humour, Louise delivers impactful workshops that inspire individuals and teams to ignite their energy and thrive. Her diverse client roster includes multinational corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, and MARS Inc. 

In her spare time, Louise participates in her love for the outdoors with family and friends, embodying the principles of balance and vitality that she advocates for in her work. 

Mirka Kolmaga

Energy Trainer & EMCC Professional Coach and Trainer

Mirka lives on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland. She has a 27-year of experience in managing and developing people in the corporate environment.

For the last 25 years, she designed people management programs and projects, worked as a facilitator, developed other facilitators, coached executive managers. She has been teaching corporate health and wellness courses since 2013. Certified as a gestalt psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Mirka run personal resilience and energy management programs for international pharmaceutical companies, banks, and small enterprises. At Zest for Work Mirka works as a facilitator.

Next to this, Mirka continues to provide certified mindfulness programs on the regular basis and run her psychotherapy practice. She is also a member of EAMBA – an international organisation associating mindfulness teachers’ national organisations, where, as a member of the EAMBA EXCHANGE team, she is responsible for organising regular experience and knowledge exchange meetings for European teachers.

In her spare time, she enjoys traditional and recumbent road cycling, fusion cooking, gardening, and spending time with her grandchildren. 

She is happily married, has one daughter, one son, five grandchildren, and two cats.

Sue Holland

Energy Trainer, APECS Coach and Coach Supervisor; MA Psychotherapy, UKCP reg.; SEP

Sue has over thirty years’ experience in the field of self-development as a trainer, clinical supervisor, executive coach, coach supervisor, and psychosynthesis psychotherapist, working with individuals and groups in diverse fields. Sue has been training and coaching internationally in Energy Management since 2013.

Also specializing in grief work and post traumatic growth, Sue supervises teams working with collective trauma and she is passionate about supporting people through periods of suffering and loss.

Sue is an associate lecturer at the London Institute of Psychosynthesis, where she was senior faculty for thirteen years. Having brought Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing training to London from the USA in 2006, she is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She is also a certified gym trainer and nutrition coach. She recently completed her certification in Lotus Neigong. 

Sue is a member of both the Global Supervisors’ Network and the Climate Coaching Alliance, through her accreditation with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision. These organizations explore and share cutting edge application of both coaching and supervision through these turbulent times.

Sue is published. She works in French and some Dutch, she loves learning and speaking in different languages. Communication across difference is a field of interest for her. 

Overall, Sue is fascinated by the dynamic interplay of spirituality, psychology and physiology, which she has studied extensively over her career. She is called by the transformational potential of engaging in the dance between these three areas, towards increasing wholeness.

Tamer Abbas

Energy & Resilience Trainer

Tamer is a seasoned commercial and business leader with over 27 years of experience across Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Talent Development in the pharmaceutical, consumer, and medical devices industries. He’s held senior local and regional roles across multinational organizations in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa.

Since transitioning into a portfolio career, Tamer has combined his strategic mindset with a passion for human development — designing and delivering programmes on leadership, communication, and personal growth. Tamer is signified as Learning leader who is an expert in Human psychology.

As a certified Energy & Resilience trainer based in Dubai, Tamer delivers our programmes across Middle East and Africa.

Tamsin Bennée

Energy Trainer, BSc (Hons), PGCE

Tamsin has over 20 years’ experience in mentoring, coaching, and training across an eclectic career portfolio.  After studying Astronomy and Physics at University she went on to join the military.  After which she moved into the fitness industry and then on into education. She is a certified fitness trainer, holds a Science Post Graduate Certificate in Education, and is a master trainer for Energy for Performance courses.  For the last 6 years, she has been a corporate trainer focusing on Wellbeing and Energy Management for multinational companies, as well as supporting the implementation of such courses for Johnson & Johnson across the whole of the EMEA region.  She is presently going deeper into the realms of Positive Psychology in coaching by studying for a Master’s, exploring the impacts of this on individuals and within teams.  Her real passion is wanting to support others not to just survive through life but to flourish and thrive within it.  

Tamsin loves to travel and has spent the last 4 years in Rome.  Now she is based in the UK spending much of her time enjoying the change of the seasons by walking and being outdoors and is always on the lookout for good coffee. 

Tom Spittaels

Trainer 

Tom is a charismatic and passionate trainer-coach, skilled in development and motivation of people and building powerful and driven teams. 

Forging a group of people into an effective and enthusiastic team is what gives him energy and will never bore him. 

Sustainable, effective collaboration can be a real challenge, especially when the interests are high and characters differ. 

In a successful team, all forces work in the same direction in a functional way. To make a real difference, the team members must be willing to give their best energy to the team with full dedication. This is only possible if they are convinced that energy from the team will flow back to themselves. Finally, an important key to strengthening the team is to strengthen the various members. A team must therefore be a place where individual and personal growth is fully made possible, stimulated and valued.

Within Zest for Work, Tom brings an extensive experience through a combined career of 15 years of volleyball coaching of an A-league team, Corporate Athlete energy management training in business and a 20-year active career in the business world. In addition, he individually coached a varied group of sport and business professionals. 

Wouter van Bockhaven

Academy Partner TalentLogiQs

As a scientist and product developer, I’m fascinated by evidence-based career and talent management analytics that make the difference for organizations and individuals. After seeing the Career Fitness Profiler grow into the market-leading analytical tool for career coaching and development in Flanders, Belgium, my ambition is to also let other markets take advantage of these tools and to continue to build a new generation of evidence-based career and talent management analytics. 

At TalentLogiQs I am responsible for technology, new product development and strategic supervision. In the end we strive to be the catalyst of the emancipated career dialogues, for people and organizations in flow. The tools that we create support this goal through a shared vocabulary and in-depth understanding offering behavioral predictions to our business customers and their talented people. From TalentLogiQs we love to work closely with our Dutch Acedemy partner Zest for Work, to work together on a joint mission to translate and transfer scientific knowledge about sustainable and integrated talent and career management into proven effective solutions for organizations and their employees.

Wouter is also Assistant Professor at de Antwerp Management School next to TalentLogiQs.