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30-day microSaaS sprint

ImpactGenie

Co-Founder

Kill the Dinosaur

Helping mission-driven founders in launching & growing new business opportunities.

Founder

Airborn

We’re on a mission to support and fund impact driven startup founders.
Rome wasn’t built in a day… expected to launch soon

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

ClimateCamp - hiring!

Decarbonising the food industry and its supply chains by making it easier for companies & their suppliers to exchange carbon data.

Member of The Board of Advisors

Dripl

Venture Coach

Aquafin

New Business Developer - Riothermie

switchrs

Switchrs is a multidisciplinary innovation collective that focuses on social-circular economy.

At switchrs we believe in sustainability as a positive story. That's why our focus is on designing positive impact. We make, show, facilitate and talk about things that regenerate our planet, society and economy.

bundl

Long term collaboration as a Strategy Designer for the Bundl team and its network of clients.

(*) via Kill the Dinosaur

Sr. Corporate Venture Builder (*)

Thea Swing

Thea swing is a design product that gives children with a disability the chance to experience swinging in a safe way, mountable on any classic swing! To swing in a free, safe and comfortable way; that's what the Thea swing stands for.

www.theaswing.com

Co-founder

Launching Impactful Micro-Businesses 🌱🌎 I Venture Building👷 I Circular Economy ♻️ I AI for Good 🤖 I Angel Investing 💸

I’m not a productivity guru.
I’ve launched 10+ ventures, started 100+ side projects, and abandoned at least as many.

Like many creative generalists, I live between sticky notes, Notion docs, WhatsApp reminders, and new startup ideas that always feel more exciting than the last.

So I’m doing what I do best: building for the mess I live in.

For the next 30 days, I’m building a micro-SaaS focused on one core challenge:
Helping creative generalists (like me) stay focused without feeling boxed in.

I’ll be building and sharing in public.

Follow me for transparent updates, lessons learned, and real progress from someone who’s deep in the chaos (and finally doing something about it).

Better Growth

The private network of sales, marketing, and growth professionals who are done figuring it out alone.

Founder & CEO

Founders Running Club

Global community for founders, investors, tech, creative ppl, and startup enthusiasts. 
22 cities, 26000+ people. Co-founder of the Antwerp Branch

ANWB

Validation Lead

Freelance

I help with validating business ideas, educating your S&M team, scaling campaigns or optimizing growth processes.

This wil result in an increase of adoption, revenue, or retention for your business.

Growth Advisor

GrowForce

Creator and director of our educational platform where we transform our field experience into value-packed courses. 

We teach the most up-to-date marketing strategies, tools, and tactics to business owners and professionals that want to stay on top of their careers.

Taught over 500+ alumni from 300+ companies.

Director of GrowForce academy

We help companies create predictable sales funnels with their venture brand.

The GrowForce team does this by teaching them how to automate the growth of their lead generation and bring their value proposition, sales and marketing process, technology stack and sales team to a higher maturity level.

Clients include founders of leading European companies. Client information is not disclosed unless you reach out to me personally.

Growth Consultant

PlayPass NV

Playpass has developed an innovative new software application that uses RFID and NFC technology to transform the humble wristband into a device allowing event organisers to manage crew, artists and crowds; create exciting new ways for the public to interact with brands at events, both in person and via social media; and create a safe and secure cashless environment. 

With customers like Live Nation Belgium (Rock Werchter), Graspop, Sportpaleis Group our solutions service large-scale events.

Project Manager

Sportr

Sportr was a great way to search, discover and experience sport activities in your neighborhood. By connecting sportsmen to sport clubs, we made sport activities accessible for everybody.

Sportr was accelerated and incubated by Start it @kbc.

SINC

Event Director

Event Manager

Karel de Grote Hogeschool Entrepreneurial Center

Coach

Pepperminds Belgium

Promoter

Connecting like-minded GTM leaders - Founder & CEO at Better Growth

7 years ago I started my entrepreneurial adventure with Sportr, a platform to connect athletes and sports clubs. 

The goal? 

Getting people to play sports flexibly! In those 3 years, I built a great network, but we struggled to get our story to the right audience. After 3 years, both the team and the financial side of the story were burned out.

I took all that knowledge with me and decided that in my next adventure, I would focus more on what I had struggled with myself with Sportr: a good growth strategy to bring a story to the market.

That's how I ended up at GrowForce, where I spent 3 years helping and mentoring B2B companies with Growth Hacking and Growth Marketing techniques. 

At the same time, I also founded the GrowForce Academy, a 6-week course through which we taught over 600 professionals and entrepreneurs the techniques ourselves. 

The biggest struggle remained the same: Companies were struggling to bring their amazing offerings to market.

So, after 3 years of GrowForce story, I decided to walk my own path in August 2021.

The demand for a good go-to-market strategy kept coming back. I got tons of energy from sparring with other entrepreneurs to help them with this.

And in May 2022, Better Growth was born out of this.

Our mission continues to be what I've seen entrepreneurs get themselves and their organizations stuck in for years: To help B2B companies take their story to market and, most importantly, learn how to do it themselves.

How? 

Better Growth is an exclusive community of like-minded sales leaders who support each other to achieve their goals through sounding board discussions and inspiring events.

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