Enjoy Every Moment

How wonderful it is, our annual party with the Smartlappenkaraoke in Paradiso. And yet, yesterday was also a sad edition. For the first time without

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Nines and Tens

“Huh, why are you participating in the Talk-Like-A-Pro programme? Because you already speak in front of big halls every week, right?” I got that question

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Inspiration

Yesterday I spoke at the inspiration day of the Alfa College in Groningen. When you view the world through musical glasses, everything sounds better. Especially

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Musical Perspective

When dealing with complicated issues, it sometimes works well to look at them from a different perspective. Yesterday, for instance, I invited IND employees to

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2023

The last few miles of 2023 was tough, but wonderful. 3 to 4 keynotes a week, as in the last period, is top sport. But

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Pakhuis De Zwijger

SPEAKING at Warehouse “DE ZWIJGER”… 🤫It has something contradictory… 🧐 But it was a top venue. A great kick-off to the Week of the Internal Supervisor

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Music and Funerals

Over 25 years ago, a friend of mine died. As the coffin was being carried out of the church, ‘The Final Countdown’ sounded. Since then,

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Driver+

Ruud Jan Bos has been a fine colleague as a guitarist for years, but also turns out to be an excellent driver, producer, assistant, mental

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Confidant

Today was the National Confidant Day 2023, at the Ministry of Defence. I went there in search of the connection between music and confidants. There

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Emotion

Today was ‘International Teacher’s Day’. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Cancer Institute in Amsterdam put its teachers and trainers in the spotlight with a great programme.

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Brilliant Venue

Tivoli Vredenburg. The perfect venue for a ‘musical speaker’. 🎤🎼🎶. My keynote was the closing of an international conference about collaboration in risk management. However

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Event Managers

Less than a kilometer from my childhood home, I spoke at #Inspire2023 last Thursday. The Society for Event Managers organized a beautiful day for 530

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