Saskia Michielsen

Saskia serves as one of our fly-in experts. She has an extensive background in leadership roles in school environments and is highly skilled at project management. For now, Saskia is responsible for scouting locations for our team, office, and Impact museum.

Whenever our team requires project management, an inspiration trip for our members and customers, Saskia is our go-to person. She possesses a can-do attitude and is always ready to provide additional support for project management on sustainability and impact.

Saskia's vision is to establish a Holiday Impact Boutique that offers inspiring holiday experiences that enable people to engage with individuals from different backgrounds and expertise while making a positive impact through volunteer work.

“When love is deep, much can be accomplished.”

Shinichi Suzuki

My expertise

Nurturing organizational change
Develop an academy for your organization or family
Collaboration as a team
Inspiration safari’s
Community Building
Project management
Discovery

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Volvo Cars Benelux

Stefaan partnered with Volvo to embark on a journey to the future, utilizing foresight and trend-watching tools and techniques. The objective was to envision and develop a set of future scenarios for car retail that would anticipate sustainable mobility perspectives.

VP Capital

Astrid provided coaching and support to the VP Capital family office, helping them with various subjects such as impact investing, sustainability transformation of heritage portfolio companies, philanthropy strategy, and ESG due diligence. Furthermore, Astrid helped VP Capital to attain Bcorp and SBTi status and advocated for impact investing in the Family Wealth world. Astrid committed to data readiness and compliance, engaging the team and portfolio companies in the journey towards sustainability and impact, creating strategic pillars and KPI models, managing public reputation, and facilitating communication with family members and external stakeholders. She also organized community events with HNW owners and portfolio companies, striving to transform wealth owners and existing companies into frontrunners in carbon reduction, circularity, regenerative practices, and inclusivity.

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Jan led the concept development for a circular hub, which involved repurposing a blackfield site into a thriving center for impact entrepreneurship. This initiative aligned the goals of both the city of Mechelen and the project developer. As part of his role, Jan developed a robust business model for the exploitation of the hub, strategies for market positioning and securing funding and financing.

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