My Resume
PROFESSIONAL INFO
Oh boy..... that's not your typical writer's resume, now is it? Uhm.... probably not but hear me out!
I truly believe that if you want to be successful as a business you need to have your story in place. A businessplan or a product without a story is just a bunch of numbers and specs.
Your customers connect to a story because that's how the human brain has been programmed from way back in the days. Storytelling has been the most successful medium for centuries to transfer knowledge.
I have been working in different sales and management positions for the last 20+ years and believe me, I have seen the power of storytelling and the failures 'cause of not telling the story. This experience can help your business grow, so why not use it?
Oh.... almost forgot..... why did I choose to become a storyteller? Good question!
Well the answer is not complicated. I've been a writer all my live, I just love to write! In 2021 I decided it was time to combine my passion of writing with a professional career and here we are.
The reason behind this decision is my story, a story I love to share........ while having a cup of coffee. So give me a call, meet up to have that drink and I'll tell you.
“A writer should be joyous, an optimist . . . anything that implies rejection of life is
wrong for a writer.”
- George Gribbin
WORK EXPERIENCE
2021-Present
Founder of The Writing Sloth
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1996-2020
Sales Manager, General Manager and CEO
I started out as a pre-sales consultant in a small family owned IT Company in The Netherlands. My career followed the usual path through the ranks and after 5 successful years I could call myself sales manager. This company was acquired by a large Dutch multinational and before I knew it I was running that business unit as General Manager with offices in The Netherlands, Germany and Romania. I fell in love with international sales and business development, so after 10 years I quit and started my own independent consultancy firm. The next couple of years I worked as an interim CEO for several companies in countries/regions like India, UAE and Eastern Africa. Obviously working at those places meant a lot of travel and long periods away from family and friends. It was therefor that, in 2017, I decided to move a little bit closer to home and started working as an Area Vice President for an international German company. Which is where I worked when I decided to start writing.
EDUCATION
2010-Present
MSc - University of Leiden
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2010-Present
BSc International Business - College
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High School - US
2010-Present
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