ICF ACC and Level 2 Trained Coach. Level 7 ILM Executive Coaching & Mentoring
Marketing & Commercial Director Founder of Spark My Future

Becky has a passion for supporting women as they build clarity, direction, and confidence during uncertain times. She has a gift for helping people find their footing and move forward with calm, clarity and purpose.

A former corporate leader with international experience in bluechips, scale ups and now as an entrepeneur, Becky combines 4 years of coaching experience and a breadth of knowledge and network to help young people understand their potential and move forward with excitment. She specialises in helping students manage transitions and grow during periods of transition. With deep knowledge of career change, relocation, and cross-cultural dynamics, she brings both strategy and heart to the conversation.

Language: English

Creative entrepreneur
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach
‍ ‍Co-founder of Spark My Future

Harriet helps students slow down and reconnect with who they are, beyond external expectations. Her coaching supports young women in finding confidence, purpose, and direction as they leave university and begin shaping their futures. She brings lightness and groundedness to a stage of life often filled with uncertainty.

She transitioned from corporate marketing management into hospitality and creative entrepreneurship, Harriet brings life experience and grounded wisdom. Her intuitive, open style creates a safe space to reflect, dream, and start from exactly where you are.

She has reinvented herself more than once, and now helps others to find their own authentic path forward. One that feels not perfect, but true.

Languages: Dutch & English

Consultant
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Karima supports young women, especially those from bicultural backgrounds, who are ready to step into their full potential as they transition from university into the next phase of life. Her coaching is warm and empathetic, creating a safe space for honest conversations and clarity. She helps students slow down, reflect on who they are, and take ownership of the choices in front of them.

Karima helps students understand what’s holding them back, tap into their unique strengths, and make aligned choices that reflect who they truly are. With a focus on mindset and self-worth, her coaching provides practical tools and a sense of encouragement. Karima is especially skilled at helping young women who may feel torn between cultures or expectations find their voice and confidence.

Languages: Dutch, Arabic & English

Business Manager, Rabobank
ICF Level  2 Trained Coach

Baharak empowers students entering financial and business sectors. She guides young women to find their confidence, sharpen their clarity, and bridge the gap between academic knowledge and real-world business environments.

As a Business Manager at Rabobank, Baharak brings market insights and strategic thinking into her coaching. She helps students craft compelling narratives, build readiness for interviews, and effectively communicate their strengths to employers. Her coaching is a blend of industry-informed guidance and personal growth: she supports clients in navigating the complexities of corporate entry points while staying true to their core values. Baharak understands the uncertainties of stepping into big organisations. She draws on her own experience navigating internal networks and stakeholder relationships, offering authenticity and practical support. Students working with her benefit from her hands-on approach and thoughtful encouragement.

Languages: English & Farsi

Deloitte University Dean
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Heike supports ambitious students preparing to enter dynamic, high-impact environments. Her coaching helps young people develop human-centred leadership, resilience, and curiosity traits essential for thriving during and beyond their university journey.

As Dean of Deloitte University EMEA, Heike leads a renowned leadership development campus in Paris. She designs and delivers programmes that combine business insight with deep personal growth. Her focus is on helping future leaders grow not just horizontally through new skills, but vertically evolving how they think, feel, and show up. Heike also coaches students and professionals through key transitions, with a focus on wellbeing, purpose, and creating space for growth. Her approach is energising and reflective, encouraging students to learn from experience and trust their inner compass. Heike lives in Nord Holland with her husband and 2 daughters (21 and 23).

Languages: German, Dutch & English

Marketing Director
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Mirte supports smart, ambitious students who are starting their careers but might struggle with self-doubt. She brings empathy, warmth, and practical guidance to help young women grow into confident professionals. Her sessions are honest and encouraging, a space where students can show up as they are.

With 15+ years of leadership experience in marketing, she understands how difficult it can be to make decisions early in your career. Her coaching is grounded in real-life experience and a deep belief in personal growth through vulnerability. Mirte helps students develop clarity, ask for support, and trust their own path, even when it feels unfamiliar.

Languages: Dutch & English

Consultant
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Renske brings energy, and perspective to students facing big choices. She helps young women explore who they are and what matters to them drawing on her own experience in elite sports and complex societal work. Her coaching supports those who are ambitious but want to lead from a place of self-knowledge, not pressure.

A former national field hockey player and professional government strategist, Renske supports students in building both resilience and reflection. She’s a strong believer in learning through action and creating space for both softness and strength. Her coaching blends performance with presence, and she brings a powerful balance of drive and sensitivity to every session.

Languages: Dutch & English

Facilitator & Trainer
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Chris supports students preparing to step into team-driven and fast-paced environments. She helps them recognise their strengths, build collaborative confidence, and develop leadership rooted in purpose and connection so they can thrive as new graduates.

With extensive experience in team, leadership, and organisational transformation through her work at Changekitchen and ForChiefs, Chris creates environments where individuals feel safe to show up fully and engage in meaningful dialogue. She coaches students on making sense of complexity, navigating ambiguity, and aligning their actions with personal values. Chris blends structured facilitation with warm empathy to create powerful learning experiences.

Languages: Dutch & English

Managing Partner
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach
Advisory Board Member

Hanne supports students and professionals who are navigating their career choices. Her coaching brings in moments of transition the clarity, confidence, and courage to choose boldly. With warmth and wisdom, she creates space for women to ask: What do I truly want? and What might be possible if I believed it was?

With international HR experience and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Hanne offers grounded support and big-picture forward thinking. She believes every challenge holds the seed of possibility and every choice is an opportunity to grow into your potential.

Her coaching sessions are energising, perspective-shifting, and deeply personal. She guides students to uncover their intrinsic motivation and develop a career direction that feels exciting and true.

Languages: Dutch & English

Lecturer
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach

Annie loves working with young people, a passion sparked after her first coaching study and realized through many inspiring sessions with student entrepreneurs.

She opens her door to a safe space where students can pause, settle in, and sense the shifts they want to make beginning to shape a future that feels true to them.

A creative at heart, Annie spent over three decades working internationally as a designer and strategist. Now as an embodied, somatic coach and lecturer on personal growth, she brings the same hands-on, imaginative approach to her coaching sessions. Using a creative toolkit: visualization, embodiment, and some serious doodling, she helps students move beyond what they think into what they feel, uncovering insights that words alone cannot reach. The result: they move beyond just thinking about next steps and deeply sense which steps feel right for them.

Coach & facilitator
ICF Level 2 Trained Coach (ACC)

Ellis Broeks has a background in medicine and strategy consulting. She blends clear thinking with a calm, attentive presence, offering a space that feels open, safe and thoughtful. Her way of working invites curiosity, depth and genuine reflection.

In her coaching, Ellis supports people in exploring directions that truly fit them, and in taking meaningful steps forward with confidence and ease. She encourages reconnection: with values, inner clarity and the inner signals that guide choice and direction.

Ellis has a special affinity for working with young women, supporting them in reconnecting with their energy, voice and sense of possibility as they step into what’s next.

Coach & trainer
Neuropsycholoog

With a master’s in neuropsychology, Charlotte combines scientific insight with a sharp eye for patterns in how people think, behave, and grow. With additional training in educational science, strengths coaching, and systemic work, she brings over 15 years of experience in coaching, training, and mentoring students, professionals, and teams.

After 10 years in leadership roles across higher education, hospital care, and scientific research, she understands both personal development and complex organizational contexts.

Charlotte now works full-time as a leadership coach and trainer and offers couples therapy from her own practice in Amsterdam. Working with young professionals is a particular passion, as many carry untapped or hidden talent. With a curious, warm, and motivating style, she helps people see what was always there, but not yet fully visible.

HR Manager
Coach

With over 10 years of experience in HR, Anne-Fleur brings a deep curiosity for people and the patterns that shape how we think, feel, and relate. She has worked with individuals, teams, and organizations during moments of change and growth, always with attention for what is happening beneath the surface.

Her path into coaching grew naturally alongside her work, through a three-year training in Professional Communication at Phoenix Opleidingen and a deepening focus on systemic work. She is currently completing a programme in System Dynamics in Organizations at the Bert Hellinger Institute.

With a warm, attentive presence, Anne-Fleur creates spaces where people feel safe to explore, learn, and take meaningful steps forward.

Executive Headhunter - Career Mentor

Biegel is passionate about guiding young women in the early stages of their careers. Her coaching offers clarity, perspective, and reassurance during one of life’s most exciting and uncertain transitions. She helps students explore questions of identity, direction, and practical next steps.

With over 14 years in recruitment and talent development, Biegel understands what employers are really looking for and helps students build confidence from the inside out. She supports young women to make intentional choices aligned with their values. Her own career path, filled with pivots and international experiences, helps her connect with those still figuring it all out. She brings a calm, empowering energy that encourages self-trust.

Languages: Dutch & English

Fractional Chief People Officer
Career mentor

Toni is a fractional Chief People Officer and founder of YellowBox, a change management consultancy specialising in fast growing companies.

Throughout her career of senior HR leadership roles, Toni's been a champion of women in leadership, talent development and career managment for over 20 years. She's also spent the last 6 years being a mentor for FemaleFactor and StartUpBootcamp, supporting the next generation of leaders in becoming the best versions of themselves at work.

Toni is passionate about closing the gender pay gap and creating more equality in the workplace.

Photographer

Shelby captures people in their most genuine light. She supports students and professionals alike in seeing themselves with clarity and confidence creating visual stories that reflect who they are at their best.

With a talent for creating ease in front of the camera, Shelby helps individuals feel safe and seen. Her work goes beyond taking pictures, it’s about creating space for authenticity, pride, and visibility. Through thoughtful conversation and intuitive connection, she brings out the spark in everyone she photographs.

University Teacher- Advisory Board Member

Ilinca brings a unique perspective to the Spark My Future Advisory Board as a university lecturer deeply engaged with student life and academic development. She plays a key role in helping shape programmes that reflect what students truly need ensuring they are grounded, relevant, and future-ready.

As a Psychology teacher and trainer at the University of Amsterdam and with training in psychology and education, she contributes grounded insight into how young adults learn, evolve, and find their voice. Ilinca uses her academic lens to advise on curriculum structure, program design, and inclusive content that resonates across diverse student backgrounds. Her work helps Spark My Future continuously adapt to the realities of student life today; creating programming that feels not only aspirational but genuinely supportive.

Ilinca brings a multicultural perspective, with her Romanian heritage and experience of living in the UK and The Netherlands.

Student - Advisory Board Member

Ashley empowers fellow students through advocacy, inclusive community-building, and academic excellence. Currently completing a dual bachelor’s degree in European & International Law and Technology Law, Ashley brings sharp analytical thinking and ethical awareness into every initiative she leads at the University of Groningen. As the former President of Black Ladies of Groningen (BLOG), she has created safe spaces for Black female students, launching support events, stress-management sessions, and community-building circles

Through her work with the Well-being, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Ashley collaborates with university staff to shape policy and programming that reflect student needs and promote equity.

A proud global citizen of Cape Verdean heritage and Luxembourgish-Dutch upbringing, she inspires others through her calm advocacy, resilient spirit, and belief that meaningful change begins at the grassroots level.

Communications & PR

Renate supports Spark My Future by ensuring our story reaches the right people, in the right way. With 18 years of experience in PR and Communications, she has worked with start-ups, challenger brands, and global enterprises, building brand awareness, engagement, and credibility.

Her expertise lies in developing creative, targeted communication strategies that enhance brand perception and drive growth. Renate’s track record includes successful campaigns across both local and international markets, always with a focus on authentic connection and measurable impact.

At Spark My Future, she applies her skills to amplify our mission, helping us reach more young women at a pivotal stage in their lives so they can discover their spark and step into their future with confidence and clarity.

External Confidential Counsellor

Social and psychological safety are important to enable both the growth of an organisation and of the individual within that organisation.  
In her role as external confidential counsellor at Spark My Future, Christianne is a sparring partner for the director when these topics need to be addressed in policies or programs. 

She is available to all team members and students of Spark my Future in the event that something happens that does not feel right and/or is perceived as unsafe. She will listen and stand beside that person. She will try to empower that person in his/her search for a positive change in the situation.