Inspiring Voices from the
HOST Community—Practitioners and participants who co-created HOST2Transform

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I am glad to be a part of the HOST2Transform community and to have gained and have access to extra skills and knowledge about opening the potential of many people.
John Jong, NL
Program Consultant TNO
Aerospace Engineer
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Real Estate
Joining HOST has been an amazing launching path to build my own training company and create in-company programs.
Marcelle Jans, NL
Corporate Trainer
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Corporates
HOST creates the conditions for co-creation and transformation in no time! Meeting like-minded people, to inspire, to be inspired, and to grow.
John Schmeitz, NL
Digital Consultant
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Healthcare
HOST makes me enthusiastic about HR again! I feel confident to advise organizations in the traditional or transformative HR way.
Ellis Haring. NL
Interim HR Manager
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming HR
Growing with kindred consultants who envision a much better world which taps into the best of the human condition.
Vadivu Govind, SG
Inner Wealth Catalyst
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Wellbeing
Never in my life have I experienced that you can go into the depth of your working experience and feelings within only a two hours!
Eduard van Zuijlen, NL
Advisor, Chair, Supervisor
HOST Participant
Transforming Governance
The future is uncertain for many of us. HOST helps people to gain clarity in their future.
Ton Bakker, NL
Executive Team Coach
HOST Participant
Transforming Organizations
A new refreshed look into working together, not only as individuals but also as teams. I like the positive mindset it brings. It helps teams to not sit around the problem and to think differently.
Marc-Peter Pijper, NL
Speaker, trainer
Holacracy & Growth Expert
HOST Participant Transforming Finance
Growing with kindred consultants who envision a much better world which taps into the best of the human condition.
Vadivu Govind, SG
Inner Wealth Catalyst
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Wellbeing
Never in my life have I experienced that you can go into the depth of your working experience and feelings within only a two hours!
Eduard van Zuijlen, NL
Advisor, Chair, Supervisor
HOST Participant
Transforming Governance
The future is uncertain for many of us. HOST helps people to gain clarity in their future.
Ton Bakker, NL
Executive Team Coach
HOST Participant
Transforming Organizations
A new refreshed look into working together, not only as individuals but also as teams. I like the positive mindset it brings. It helps teams to not sit around the problem and to think differently.
Marc-Peter Pijper, NL
Speaker, trainer
Holacracy & Growth Expert
HOST Participant Transforming Finance
Growing with kindred consultants who envision a much better world which taps into the best of the human condition.
Vadivu Govind, SG
Inner Wealth Catalyst
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Wellbeing
Never in my life have I experienced that you can go into the depth of your working experience and feelings within only a two hours!
Eduard van Zuijlen, NL
Advisor, Chair, Supervisor
HOST Participant
Transforming Governance
The future is uncertain for many of us. HOST helps people to gain clarity in their future.
Ton Bakker, NL
Executive Team Coach
HOST Participant
Transforming Organizations
A new refreshed look into working together, not only as individuals but also as teams. I like the positive mindset it brings. It helps teams to not sit around the problem and to think differently.
Marc-Peter Pijper, NL
Speaker, trainer
Holacracy & Growth Expert
HOST Participant Transforming Finance
A collaborative exchange to get inspired and inspire others on your transformational journey.
Frank Jäger, DE
Leadership Trainer, Coach (PCC, CPCC)
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming L&D
The tools that HOST2transform offers are down to earth, they have such a low threshold, you don't have to engage in week-long workshops to apply it into your day-to-day services and work.
Manuela Bosch, DE
Consultant, Facilitator, Program Designer
Relationship capacity
HOST Participant
Transforming Corporates
Instead of letting participants perform a 'trick', I now challenge them to own their new skill and employ it in their own unique way.
Coen Bavink, NL
Human Resource Expert
HOST Participant
Transforming HR
A welcome departure from the usual and very effective at breaking barriers among participants and within their minds.
Kranti M, IN
Designer Thinking Expert
HOST Participant
Transforming Agriculture
What I love about providing HOST sessions is the spontaneous way participants take on a positive attitude.
Adda van Zanden, NL
Inclusive Leadership & DEI Strategist
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Inclusive Workplaces
Very practical and powerful! It helps me cope with change fatigue, skepticism and criticism.
Eric de Bruin, NL
Interim & Consultancy Spatial Planning
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Inclusive Cities
HOST2Transform to me is a Treasure Chest. It is a creative & powerful source of inspiration for fresh and energetic education. Helps me and my colleagues to reinvent myself as a trainer by placing the students in the center.
Sylvia Bronkhorst, NL
Head-Heart-Hands Education Innovator
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Education
Me and the participants continue to be amazed when observing the power of this approach.
Karla van Loock, BE
Head-Heart-Hands Change Consultant & Educator
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Change Management
It agily enables me to use
HOST in ways that suits me best!
Rike van Hattem, NL
Senior Account Manager
Human Connector
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Organizations
An ambitious community that is set up to make human-centered leadership great!
Soraya Lagcher-Lanting, NL
Freelance Leadership Consultant
HOST Certified Consultant
Transforming Corporates
A much more organic way of gaining knowledge and experience than a lot of other programs.
Dick Rüger, NL
Coaching, Facilitation & Training (ACTC/PCC)
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Workplaces for Equity
Helps you understand smarter and faster ways of having change accepted.
Elianne Oei, Global
Strategy & Systemic Transformation Consultant
HOST Certified Consultant
Transforming Natural Ecosystems
HOST embodies what is critical for success: alignment, trust, awareness of self and others.
Kendra Prescott, USA
Licensed Counselor & Leadership Facilitator
HOST Certified Consultant Transforming Wellbeing
HOST is an infinite learning journey of discovering yourself, learning from others, and bringing that to your work environment.
Eleftheria Karyoti, GR
Business Innovation Consultant
HOST Certified Consultant
Transforming Agriculture
HOST helps you to learn how to connect, how to learn from each other, and how to improve yourself, your organization, or the processes you are involved in.
Karen Ruiten, NL
Director Positive Health
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Health Care
The international oriented business and people approach is making HOST an attractive partner for all your change programs. Jessica and her colleagues from all over the globe are wonderful guides in these programs and a great source of inspiration.
Marjolein Maree, NL
Global Management Consultant
HOST Board Member & Ambassador
Transforming Leadership
The Art of Hosting is a quite serious way of facilitating meaningful conversations and meaningful processes. HOST really adds to that, to have a framework that touches that base to bring some lightheartedness into the serious business of changing the world.
Ingmar Nieuwold, SL
Strategic host Impact Hub
HOST Participant
Transforming Business Communities
HOST gave more grip and confidence to execute the HOST exercises in my own work practice and intrinsically engage students to create student-led classroom experiences.
Annemieke de Bruin, NL
Lecture & Innovation Coach
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Education
Just having a common space doesn’t bring people together. There has to be a bit more, and that’s what HOST2Transform brings to the picture more fundamental human values.
Tej Pochiraju, IN
Director Jaaga Cowork Space
PhD Wireless engineering
Transforming Tech Communities
Bangalore, India
You want to establish more open dialogue among team members, and this would be a great way to get people more comfortable around each other and more familiar.
Nick Graham, UK
Chief of Staff, Growing Impact Organizations
HOST Participant
Transforming the System
The HOST sessions helped me find my customers, and to validate the problem, and solution. Also, it helped me finding my investor and building my team.
Giwan Persaud, NL
Lead Frontend Engineer & Founder Mytoori
HOST Participant
HOST brings ‘positivismo’, something the world needs today!
Lalo Sandoval Aguilar
Former Global Brand Manager at Danone
HOST Participant
Jessica is a highly-talented trainer and facilitator, who can turn a group of disparate individuals into a motivated, cohesive team within the space of a couple of hours.
Richard Metcalf
Agile Transformation Consultant
HOST Participant
HOST brings agility into practice. An excellent way to get people to engage with the people around them. Modern approach to get more vital and flexible employees. Powerful, fantastic and effective!
Niek Vrielink, NL
L&D Human Capital Innovation at Fortune 500 companies
HOST Board Member & Ambassador
Transforming L&D
Practical steps to introduce serendipity in the workplace. Learn how to create space for connection with minimal structure to maximize value.
Katie Minderhoud, Global
Knowledge Manager Solidaridad Europe
HOST Certificate Practitioner
Transforming Collaborative Ecosystems
This concept is GOLD!
Jeroen Koomen, NL
Trainer & Gamifier
HOST Participant
At first I was a bit skeptical about joining ‘another’ platform. At HOST I see the engagement increasing every day and the community spin-off really takes place!
Stefan de Graaf
Musician & Facilitator of Creativity
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Creative Workplaces
I can recommend the full person, holistic, HOST approach used to develop yourself becoming a more well-rounded person, as well as the very personal and engaging coaching sessions with Jessica and her team!
Joshua Campfens, NL
Digital Marketing Lead
HOST Participant
Host2Transform helps in personal and business growth. To improve in connectivity, thinking out of the box and improved communication with internal and external relations.
Irene Kruizinga
Program Manager at Oxfam
HOST Participant
Transforming Societies
Great add-on to my Design Thinking toolkit to help accelerate human-centered change.
Roy Schinning- Woltring
Strategy & Design Thinking
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Energy Sector
A convincing, creative, and energetic way, it did so exceptionally well. My colleagues and I were truly enthusiastic about this approach.
Isabel Brouwer
Start-up Business Lead
HOST Participant
I feel that it has indeed changed the way I work in AMC - and also my whole life!
Christos Georgalas
Professor & Surgent in Head and Neck
HOST Participant
I find it incredibly inspiring, and I truly appreciate having had the opportunity to learn from you. I will carry it forward and share it with others!
Mirjam de Boer, NL
Community Builder
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Wellbeing
Provides great talent to create a mindset of trust, openness and playfullness amongst a group of people. Thus providing a solid base for transformation, co-creation and innovation within organizations, networks and perhaps even whole societies!
Saskia Jongma, NL
Adjunct Director Ministry of Economics
HOST Participant
HOST2Transform provides an incredible contemporary tool that unlocks vitality of people and teams. Something today’s organizations need to keep up with the fast changing world.
Niek Vrielink, NL
L&D Human Capital Innovation at Fortune 500 company
HOST Board Member
Transforming L&D
HOST really takes care of true transformation. Regardless which model, theory or framework. How they do it? By focusing on the conditions to make change work; well-being of people who are responsible for transformation (e.g. employees, managers, coaches) the mindset, behavior and culture for transformation, creating change from the inside-out while connecting change to business strategies for scale.
Erik-Jan Broeke, NL
HOST Board Expert
Beyond Agile Strategy and Consultancy
Transforming L&D
You find out something new you would never discover yourself.
Suzanne Smith, NL
HOST Participant
Co-work Space
B.Amsterdam
This can really be a means for companies to recover because you perceive each other from a different approach. I think this could even be a way for companies to recover or prevent bankruptcy.
Stephanie van Arkel, NL
Community Lead B.Amsterdam
After this exercise, the group felt more connected to each other . It created a safe atmosphere to step out of the comfort-zone. You experience more contact with peers and more motivation to work. As a result, you will be more productive in your work.
Amanda, BR
HOST Participant
Community Building
Project Brasil
We wanted the community to grow and we saw the potential that Host2Transform can have on that. It’s helping us contribute to the community instead of just taking from the community. Post-your session, everybody was so energetic, the whole day was so bubbly and positive!
Sneh, IN
Community Lead Jaaga
Tech Startup
Bangalore, India
Once I’ve experienced the Host2Transform, with the tools and everything, it’s something that can be translated in any sort of context you want! It creates this whole shift of mindset in which you actually start to assess things differently.
Redouane Makraou, NL
HOST Participant
International Business Innovation Studies
Colleagues might like each other more, and get along better, and get things done easier, more pleasant, and faster. And cheaper, for the boss!
Jasper, NL
Entrepreneur
HOST Participant
It provides me new ways in how to unlock self-organization and cooperative teams.
Lotte Hoogers, NL
Trainer Personal Growth & Team Development
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming human-centered Workplaces
In a very short time, with very effective methods , big steps in starting my own company and to be flexible in the moment.
Jan-Willem Wegdam, NL
Caribbean Emergency Response
Private Sector Partnerships
HOST Participant
These sessions made clear that I am persistent in really executing the ideas I have in me!
Geraldine Molema, NL
Senior Communication Advisor
Beautiful the way you naturally capitalized on the needs of the group and from there built up the program.
Ingeborg Hofstede, NL
HOST Participant
Energetic, deep & practical!
Mark J. Bouman, NL
The Art of Learning B.V
HOST Participant
Intensive, get things done and inspiring!
Rin Vastrick, NL
Personal Leadership Coach
I became more aware of the kind of goals I wanted to set for myself. But also what kind of obstacles I’ve created in my own mind about reaching those goals. As an entrepreneur, it’s easier to get stuck in your own little world and the session were very helpful in stepping outside of that.
Yuri Radomisli, NL
Massage Therapist & Holistic Personal Trainer
HOST Participant
It helped me reconnect with my flow. Do not always try to do it right. Be mindful and more kind for yourself. It’s involves lifelong learning, and this is a great way to do it!
Karim Ras, NL
Independent Consultant
HOST Participant
HOST helps you unleash the authentic "you" which in turn creates a positive, direct and honest cooperation between all participants!
Olivia Schaub, NL
Team Lead Inclusion
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Societies
It drives engagement and openness paired with expertise.
Christof H, ES
Director Inclusive Entrepreneurship
HOST Participant
The HOST2transform exercises are ‘no rocket science’ but are, nevertheless, hard to explain. It is all about experiencing it yourself!
Jeltsje Boersma, Global
Social Entrepreneur
Moral Ambition Lead
HOST Participant
It was a very open, comfortable environment to share my doubts and my feelings. I would definitely recommend these sessions to people who are feeling lost even in their work.
Purnima Ashok Kumar, GE
Climate Change Engineer
HOST Participant
I have experienced multiple HOST sessions and every time is very special. An amazing concept. I’m sure that this initiative will grow. These times screams for connectors like you!
Marja Godvliet, NL
Team Lead Inclusion
HOST Certified Practitioner
Transforming Societies
It grounded it in a way where my need for creativity was being met with the needs of the entrepreneurs to stay in business and succeed.
Natale Dankotuwage, CA
Senior Advisor
Business Community Lead
HOST Participant
HOST2Transform is a force of nature when it comes down to enabling deep transitions and transformations on a personal, professional and business level.
Elena Boroda, DE
Lead Business Marketing
HOST Participant

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