Partners
Professional Capital
Professional Capital was founded by em. Prof. dr. Willem Verbeke and Maarten Colijn who met each other at the Sales & Marketing faculty of the Erasmus University. They discovered that a focus on the right commercial mindset within a training is essential for a sales professional and together they developed a modern training approach.
ExploreMe is also an essential part of this. Meanwhile, Professional Capital has already trained more than 15,000 people from the Netherlands, Belgium and the rest of Europe, both online and face to face. Here's a selection of our customers:
CPS, Rotterdam School of Management, Academy of Midwifery, Achmea, Deloitte, KPMG, Rabobank, Coca-Cola, van Ameyde.
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Catch Your Talent
CatchYourTalent stands for The Institute for Talent in Sales and has been founded in the year 2006. The institute specializes in the development of Sales Talent of people with a degree in higher special education + (or in Dutch HBO+). This sales education program seeks to bridge the gap between college education and industry practice.
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CoVince
CoVince makes Learning an adventure: more fun and more effective. Combining psychology and technology (Mobile / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Artificial Intelligence / Smart Sensoring) into experiences you’ll never forget. CoVince is scientifically based and accessible for all.
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Netherlands Business Academy
Netherlands Business Academy provides master-programs which are based on industry practice. The participants engage in part time education and seek to advance their career opportunities and/or also seek to excel in their current positions or job.
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www.netherlandsbusinessacademy.nl
Mental Training Centrum
The Mental Training Center is an innovative consulting- and training company which specializes in developing mental toughness which is needed to become a resilient professional.
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Salesperience
Jan Rozema, Niek van der Meulen en Jochem Hoekstra are three alumni from the Sales Business School STIP and they share one commonality: a passion for entrepreneurship and sales.
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Sales MBA in 1 Day
During the Sales MBA in 1 Day all students participate in the ExploreME assessment test. The Sales MBA in 1 Day is organized by the Groeneveld Academy in collaboration with prof. Willem Verbeke Ph.D.
ExploreMe is part of the 'Sales MBA in 1 Day' program.
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www.groeneveld-academy.nl
www.salesmbain1day.nl
Coaches
Marja Olff
Marja is a licensed ExploreMe coach and helps professionals in developing their commercial leadership skills.
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Yso van den Berg
Yso is a licensed ExploreMe coach and helps professionals in developing their commercial leadership skills.
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Dimitri de Wild
Dimitri is a licensed ExploreMe coach and helps professionals to further develop themselves.
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Anthon Geersing
Anthon is a licensed ExploreMe coach and helps professionals in developing their commercial leadership skills.
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Marc Verlinden
Marc is a licensed ExploreMe coach and helps professionals in developing their commercial leadership skills.
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Hogeschool Rotterdam
Within The Rotterdam Business School different professors have an ExploreMe coaching license which grants them to teach and coach their students with the ExploreMe coaching method.
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Hogeschool Leiden
Within The Leiden Business School different professors have an ExploreMe coaching license which grants them to teach and coach their students with the ExploreMe coaching method.
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Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg
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Within The Fontys Business School Tilburg different professors have an ExploreMe coaching license which grants them to teach and coach their students with the ExploreMe coaching method.
From left to right: Michel van Agtmaal, Ivan Bartholomeus, Angèl van den Hurk, Nanny Kuijsters
Scientific partners
Richard Bagozzi Lab
The Richard Bagozzi Lab is a scientific partner of ExploreMe. Richard P. Bagozzi's lab (160,000+ Google Scholar Quotes) is part of the Marketing faculty of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (USA).
Research is mainly done, using neuroscientific methods, into the role of human emotions and personal and social identity in decision-making and in carrying out actions.
Emeritus professor Willem Verbeke, the founder of ExploreMe, is extremely involved in this and together with professor Bagozzi he wrote more than 30 peer-reviewed papers.
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Professor Richard Bagozzi
Project Alpha: Genetic and Epigenetic Study of Psychological Development
For ExploreMe, Professor Willem Verbeke is involved in Project Alpha: Genetic and Epigenetic Study of Psychological Development. This is a new and ambitious venture with the aim of bridging a well-known phenomenon called the transmission gap.
It aims to investigate how epigenetic markers (such as methylation) affect the expression of genetic variables that have a major effect on the development of personality traits and attachment styles.
These subsequently also have an effect on the resilience development of commercial professionals.
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Dr. Jolly Masih
Scientific partner, Dr. Jolly Masih is working on Epidemological research in health care and lifestyles including consumer behaviour. She was Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and worked with Erasmus Medical College on a project involving epigenetics and attachment styles.
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Dr. Amita Sharma
Scientific partner. Guest Post-Doctoral Researcher at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and worked on machine learning and big data with a focus on the relationship between biomarkers (like the immune system) and depression/anxiety.
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Digital development partners
Tristan van Triest
With several years of programming experience in different languages, knowledge about media and 3d modelling, I am an all-round IT professional for whom no assignment is too small. Together with ExploreMe I make sure that your experience in our training courses is as smooth as possible!
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Ipsem | digital- & sports marketing
The new sports & digital marketing agency Ipsem – founded by sports marketing student Sem Visser – offers various digital and physical marketing services primarily driven by storytelling. Sem has several years of groundbreaking sports marketing experience in English, Japanese, Spanish and Dutch markets. Together with ExploreMe we are working on an improved digital environment/customer experience and we are building an online ExploreMe community!
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