My journey

Connecting people and possibilities

Looking back, connection and raising awareness have always been threads running through my life. In my international career in PR, communication and event management, I loved working with people towards a shared vision, creating meaningful experiences and tools that broadened perspectives and opened up dialogue.

One project especially close to my heart was European Minerals Day, which I helped launch and led for ten years. It welcomed more than 120,000 local residents to quarries and mineral sites across Europe. Visitors could discover how minerals contribute to everyday life and explore topics such as biodiversity, safety, innovation and regional development. There was so much I enjoyed about that work: collaborating across countries and with people from different sectors, the creativity and the possibility of making a difference together.

When my own compass needed attention

And yet, in 2010–2011, I began to notice that my former dream job was no longer giving me energy. During that period, I was also navigating loss, grief and emotional depletion, having lost my father, and my mom almost too. Alongside the demands of work, there was a great deal to carry, and I found myself depleted and approaching burnout. I knew I needed space—to pause, reconnect with myself and begin to understand what life was asking of me.

I decided to take a sabbatical and travel—to step away from the familiar and give myself space to discover what came next. It became a deeply personal journey. Away from my usual roles and responsibilities, I began to reconnect with my curiosity, my sense of aliveness and the things that mattered to me. Gradually, I recognised a thread that had been there all along: my love of helping people see possibilities in themselves and supporting them as they grow.

Giving a new direction room to grow

When I returned, I began following that thread. I pursued coaching training in Belgium and the United States, and in 2014 founded The Core Concept. Through coaching, facilitation and training, I found a way to bring together what I loved and what I had learned: connecting people, opening perspectives and helping meaningful change take shape.

That journey continues to inform my work today. I know how unsettling it can feel when something familiar no longer fits—and how much courage it can take to explore a direction you cannot yet fully see. I also know that our experiences hold clues. With space, reflection and practical exploration, we can begin to recognise them and find our way forward. That is the work I love sharing with the people I coach and accompany on their path of becoming.

I share more of my personal journey in the Amazon international bestseller Becoming: A Decision, in my chapter “The Promise That Life Wouldn’t Let Me Forget.”