Wouter Metz

Wouter is the founder and driving force of Powerful People. He believes that the world is at its best when we flourish from our natural power. Empowering (teams of) professionals to flourish gives him pure joy and fulfillment as it is fully aligned with his power, passion ánd purpose. As former corporate lawyer and headhunter, he knows what it’s like to perform in a professional international business environment. His work as a coach and facilitator does not go unnoticed, because Wouter won the title of Dutch Coach Talent of the Year in 2020. His motto: “Celebrate Life!”

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Irma van Buren

Irma is an NLP Master Coach at Powerful People. As a life and career coach, she loves to help young professionals let go of the expectations of others and return to their true essence. She knows better than anyone how challenging – and valuable – that is. She decided to deviate from the ‘logical’ career path, followed her heart and threw herself into her great passion: personal development. She now gets to do what she loves most every day. Her favorite quote? “You have to do it yourself, but not alone.”

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Maia Wouters

Maia is a stress and burnout coach at Powerful People with a background in reintegration and personal leadership. She guides people who have drifted off their path to find it again. With her passion for nature and body-centered approach, she enjoys going outside with her coachees to reengage all the senses, breathe in life and regain meaning. Your body knows everything, you just have to be willing to listen to it. As a young mother, Maia also knows from personal experience what she is talking about.

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Linde Crijns

Linde is a (team) coach at Powerful People. With her scientific background, experience in business and interest in yoga & breathwork, she works in her coaching with both the ratio (‘who am I?’) and the heart (‘what do I feel?’). And that this combination is successful, she has experienced firsthand. She quit her well-paying job in the corporate world to start living in line with her mission: ”to put the heart back into the workplace”. She likes to work with individuals and teams, because it is in the dynamics with others that you can learn a lot about yourself.

Madelief Nijhof

Madelief is a collaborative partner from her company House for Leaders. She loves to guide professionals personal, career and leadership development, and when you have a personal issue or choice to make. Her view on coaching is that everything starts and ends with you. That means that the real work is getting to know yourself and what drives you. The more you develop yourself personally, the more your career will take off. Having coached many (top)women and men she learned that: If you know yourself, know what drives you and are very aware of your talents & pitfalls, you can handle any low and achieve anything that makes you happy and fulfilled.

Rudi Hartmans

Rudi is a collaborative partner, he has his own coaching business ‘Bewegende Delen’. He is a systemic coach with more than 25 years experience in guiding and coaching organizations, teams and individuals. He has a Master in Change Management and Systemic Work, which makes his coaching style methodical, analytical ánd highly intuitive. By applying all his business and life experiences, he guides people back to the foundation of life: we are all human beings searching for a purpose. He receives his inspiration from a lifetime love of music and from walking in his backyard ‘The Schoorlse Duinen’.