ICF ACC and Level 2 Trained Coach
Level 7 ILM Executive Coaching & Mentoring
Marketing & Commercial Director SMF Founder & Director

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

ICF ACC and Level 2 trained coach
Creative entrepreneur
SMF Co-founder &
Brand & Product Director

Harriet helps woman 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

Certified Coach & Counsellor
Project Manager
& SMF Director of Organisation

Celi has a passion for helping young women find clarity and confidence as they take their first steps into the working world. She has a gift for helping people see their own strengths clearly, even when everything still feels uncertain.

A former corporate professional with over a decade of international experience in project and procurement management, Celi combines real-world corporate insight with coaching and counselling training. She understands what it takes to navigate ambition, pressure, and self-doubt in the early stages of a career, because she's walked that path herself. She specialises in helping young women build genuine self-trust, find their own definition of success, and move forward with both strategy and heart.

Languages: English & Spanish

Leiderschapscoach
SMF Treasurer &
Director of Community

Daphne brings a unique blend of experience from elite sports, finance management, and personal development. Through her own journey, she has learned how essential self-awareness is. Especially when it comes to recognising your limits, staying true to yourself, and not losing who you are in the pressure to meet other people’s expectations.

She is deeply passionate about growth, health, and helping women live and work in alignment with their own values. Combining this with her knowledge of the brain and the nervous system, Daphne supports ambitious women in understanding the patterns that drive them, reconnecting with themselves, and creating a life that feels more grounded, intentional, and true to who they are.

Language: Dutch

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

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

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

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

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.

Language: English

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.

Languages: English & Dutch

Coach & counsellor
Facilitator

Tanya is passionate about helping high-achieving women discover their worth beyond productivity and create lives that feel truly fulfilling. She believes every woman deserves to know who she is, what genuinely makes her happy, and to have the confidence to pursue it.

Her approach is grounded in Self-Determination Theory, helping women cultivate lasting motivation by connecting with their core values, strengths and sense of autonomy. Rather than relying on willpower alone, she supports clients to create meaningful, sustainable change from the inside out.

Drawing on training in coaching and counselling, alongside a strong foundation in clinical psychology and body-mind practices, Tanya brings a holistic perspective to personal/professional growth and wellbeing which helps develop greater clarity, resilience and self-trust.

Language: English

ICF Level 2 trained coach
& facilitator

For the past 15 years, Tessie has worked as a pediatric physiotherapist, where she became deeply fascinated by the psychology behind human behavior and development. Guiding parents and children through complex psychological and behavioral challenges taught her the art of looking beyond the surface and understanding what truly drives us. Seeking to deepen this impact, she completed the Yinx coaching program and became a Transformational Coach.

Today, her passion lies in empowering young, ambitious women who are at the very beginning of shaping their futures. I love supporting women who are stepping onto the job market, yet find themselves quietly asking:

‘Who am I, underneath all the pressure, academic expectations, and roles I'm supposed to play?'

She will help you to uncover what truly lights you up, break through the fears holding you back, and create a clear, authentic roadmap toward a life that genuinely fits who you are today.

Language: Dutch & English

ICF ACC Coach | EMCC Practitioner
Positive Psychology Practitioner
Resilience Trainer

Celeste uses evidence-based coaching and positive psychology interventions to support clients in improving their mental health, well-being and resilience. Her approach focuses on fostering self-awareness, developing a positive mindset, exploring strengths and challenging negative thought patterns. She empowers clients with effective coping strategies to navigate life's challenges and thrive through adversity.

Before moving into coaching, Celeste worked in the corporate world in Insights and Marketing. Having lived and worked across Eastern and Western countries, she brings strong cross-cultural understanding, adaptability, and resilience to her work. Her international experience has given her valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges of living and working across cultures, with particular expertise in supporting expatriates and multicultural individuals.

Languages: Dutch & English

Coach & HR Manager

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.

Language: Dutch

Coach
People & Culture professional

Maaike is passionate about people, sustainable impact, and equity and inclusion. She coaches ambitious young women who are stepping into leadership for the first time. She believes that understanding your own drivers and reactive tendencies is at the core of real growth, and that this self-awareness is what separates good leaders from truly great ones.

With over 20 years of experience at the heart of people, culture, and leadership, Maaike has built her career at organisations including Willis Towers Watson, rising to Head of HR Benelux, and Intertrust Group as HR Director. Today she is Head of People & Culture at TCX, The Currency Exchange Fund.

Her style is direct and practical, grounded in decades of leadership development, strategic HR, and organisational change. She helps you figure out who you are as a leader, how to communicate with confidence, and how to navigate the politics and pressures that nobody warned you about.

Language: English & Dutch

Coach & Counselor

Viviana Sánchez is a coach and counselor with more than 15 years of experience supporting people through emotional, personal, and professional transitions. She lives in the Netherlands and works mainly with Spanish-speaking communities, bringing a grounded, human approach to coaching.

Viviana helps people slow down, understand what is happening inside, and find clarity about their next steps. She is especially passionate about supporting women during times of uncertainty and change, helping them reconnect with who they are, what matters to them, and how they want to move forward.

Languages: Spanish & Dutch

ICF Level 2 trained coach
Senior HR manager

Anne-Marie has 15+ years of experience in senior HR and leadership roles across international organisations. Having supported people through growth, change and career transitions throughout her career, she is passionate about helping women build confidence and navigate the early stages of their professional journey.

Her coaching style is warm, grounded and reflective, creating a supportive space for clients to think clearly, explore challenges and move forward with greater confidence and intention. Whether navigating career choices, building self-belief, managing workplace dynamics or stepping into new opportunities, Anne-Marie brings thoughtful challenge alongside practical real-world insight.

Drawing on extensive experience supporting leaders and teams, she helps clients better understand themselves and make choices aligned with who they want to become.

Language: English

Coach & People Lead

I started my career as a hairstylist in the early 2000s, I’ve spent the last 16 years at KPN, working with people has always been my constant. As a manager and coach, I believe leadership goes beyond numbers: it’s about trust, reflection, and honest conversations.

Coaching is at the heart of how I work: helping professionals translate strategy into action, stay calm under pressure, and build teams that perform while staying human with plenty of room for humor along the way.

Language: Dutch & English

Coach & facilitator
Creative

"Born and raised in India, I’ve spent much of my adult life living and working across different parts of Europe. This experience  gave me profound lessons in the power of curiosity, openness, and seeing beyond what feels familiar, something that also shapes the way I facilitate, coach, and create spaces for reflection and growth.

Over the last 15+ years, I’ve worked across leadership development, facilitation, and coaching across global organizations. My work integrates psychology, experiential learning and psychometric coaching tools to help individuals and teams to explore their strengths,  enhance personal effectiveness and move towards their potential with greater clarity and purpose.

Creativity has always been a quiet but defining thread in my life. I’m deeply drawn to arts,  I play the violin, love classical music, and enjoy creative expression in many forms. I bring that same creative lens into my facilitation and coaching style through deeper curiosity, intuition, and thoughtful exploration. "

Language: English

Executive coach & leadership consultant

Elsbeth combines her experience in C-level HR positions in international corporations, often in tech, with her extensive knowledge of identity, presence, quantum principles, and mindset, bringing over 20 years of coaching experience working with executives, young professionals, and business owners.

She has a special interest in business energetics, field intelligence, spirituality, and intuitive skills.

Her motto: anything is possible, the solution to seemingly difficult situations is in your thoughts and emotions. She usually works with people who take insights to a practical level, not just understanding and knowing, but also doing and taking ownership of their situation. People who understand, or want to understand, that their being is the root cause and the solution.

Languages: Dutch & English

Psychologist & Somatic Coach

Laura is a somatic coach who works with women navigating major life transitions like career shifts, identity crises, and the gap between knowing what they want and being able to move toward it. Her background is in psychology, and her practice integrates nervous system work, body-based practices, and one-on-one coaching to help women build the kind of confidence that holds under pressure.

She came to this work through her own experience of starting over, moving countries, losing every professional reference point she had, and learning that the body needs to feel safe before real change is possible. That's what she brings to women stepping into the unknowns of change: not a roadmap, but the capacity to trust their own footing.

Languages: Spanish & English

Coach & Facilitator
HR Business Partner & Systemic Coach

Throughout her life, Arielle has followed her inner compass, choosing the places, work and opportunities that genuinely resonated with her. Living and working in France, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Egypt has taught her to stay curious, embrace change and find her way in unfamiliar situations.

Today, she combines more than 20 years of experience in HR with coaching. Throughout her career, she has worked with organisations ranging from SMEs and scale-ups to global organisations across a wide variety of sectors.

As a coach, Arielle supports women during moments of transition by offering a space to pause, reflect and gain clarity. She offers a secure base from which they can explore what truly matters to them, reconnect with themselves and take their next step with greater clarity and confidence.

Languages: Dutch & English

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.

HR Business Partner & Career Mentor

Erica has over 20 years of international experience in HR, and brings a global perspective to organisation-wide transformation programmes and human behaviour. Beyond the strategy, her passion lies with being a true partner to business leaders who support diverse teams. Erica thrives on seeing colleagues flourish when their roles align perfectly with their experience and strengths.

Her commitment to coaching and mentoring grew naturally, in particular coaching women at the start of their career with a focus on discovering strengths and building confidence needed to own their ambitions.

With a calm, genuine and empowering presence, Erica creates a supportive space for growth, helping individuals bridge the gap between their current reality and their ambitions.

Languages: Dutch & English

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.