Dick Zirkzee

Coach / Second track programme counseler / TMA talent professional

Before becoming a professional coach, I gained a wealth of work and life experience. This helps me every day in my work as a coach. I have worked as a technician, project manager, supervisor and manager. From these positions, I learned to empathize with people’s development, both professionally and personally.

I enjoyed guiding and coaching employees so much that I decided to start working as a coach around 2004. I quickly saw what coachees were struggling with, but lacked some tools in my backpack to address all the issues.

I took some great coaching courses, a bachelor’s degree to become a Psycho Social Therapist, Voice Dialogue (method to guide people in getting to know their inner drives and motives better), systemic work and Transactional Analysis (theory of personality, communication and change).

My approach is not only knowledge-based, but above all practical and focused on results. But with warmth and understanding. Indeed, I recognize much of what each one is going through. I feel strongly about what motivates people: ‘Why do you do what you do?’ With many personal issues, it is important to research this. ln doing so, we also look at your biography. What things have you taught yourself that were once very important, but are now getting in your way?