About me
My Bright Side
I guide clever, sensitive and driven people who can carry a lot, but don’t want to lose themselves along the way.
As an entrepreneur, business engineer and co-founder of Bright Lights, I bring a broad background. I like to be where complexity, humanity and meaning meet: in personal leadership and in entrepreneurship alike.
Neurodiversity is also part of my personal life. After our son was diagnosed, my husband Peter and I wrote the book Great Minds Think Unalike. That story helped shape my conviction that people are so much more than the labels they’re given. I live and work with neurodivergence every day, and I consciously choose to start from strengths, possibilities and a positive view of being different. I don’t minimise the challenges, but I also see the talent and potential behind them.
In my coaching I combine sharp analysis with deep attention to what lives beneath the surface. Among other things, I work with systemic constellations and with focusing, a mindfulness-based approach, so that insight comes with movement in whatever is stuck.
My approach rests on a life lesson from Aristotle: knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. The more deeply you explore yourself, the wider your view of the world around you becomes.
The flip side
To My Dark Side