About

Hi,

I am Inge Steemans, a 38-year old woman, mother of 3 beautiful children, married to a wonderful person and currently living in The Hague.

Coming from a small town, I sought adventure once I started working and decided to follow my then fiancee to his first international assignment. 13 years later we are still going strong. Along the way we have lived in Versailles (France), Texas (USA), Hoboken, NJ (right across from New York City (USA) and for the past almost 5 years in international The Hague (NL).

Along the way I had three children: 2 in America (1 at the first peak of the pandemic - yes that time when they drove in that Hospital Ship to New York and parked it right in front of our building while I was 8 months pregnant - and 1 here in the Netherlands during a beautiful home birth - a dream come true for me.

Saying I know what it is to go through (deep) change and transformation is an understatement. It has been the constant force in my life for the past 13 years. On all levels: personal, professional, health and relationship wise.

The never-ending learner that I am, I searched in each stage for answers and tools to help me with the next transition: sometimes practical ones: personal finance building, organizing home and administration (setting yourself up in 4 different countries comes with its complexities), sometimes deep spiritual ones: who do I want to be in this place and time in my life right now? (Texas brings a different vibe then Versailles for example.)

Doing that in a relationship with another person requires strong communication skills (and listening skills) and it also requires deep personal development. Both me and my husband spent hours of training and coaching so we could support ourselves and the other one better on each level of a relationship: understanding and loving of the self, understanding and loving the other, communicating, listening and supporting each others dreams and goals.

I know look forward to bringing all this knowledge and experience to women who also want a bold big life, also when they are going through big life transitions.

I am here for you and look forward to meeting and working with you,

Sincerely,

Inge

Resume

Education and Training

  • Master’s Degree Business Engineering - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

  • Core 100 Life Coach Training - (Tony) Robbins - Madanes Training Institute

  • Mastery University (Tony Robbins) - 5 intensive multiday trainings on Personal Wealth Building, Business Strategies, Health and Wellbeing and Personal Development

  • “Cyclisch Level” - deep dive course in hormonal health and women’s cycles. Lieselot Theys

Career

  • Belgium: 3 year large corporate experience at AHOLD Delhaize as a Packaging Project Coordinator. Projects: IT workflow management implementation for in-house packaging projects (6000+ packaging developments per annum) and improving Packaging Sustainability (eliminating plastic weight). Delhaize won that year the Greener Packaging Award. Chosen for the High Potential Retail Industry Training Program.

  • France: entrepreneurial journey in the textile business: bringing a the concept of an anti-sweat stain undershirt from concept to industrially made product.

  • Dallas, TX: Joined Searchdex (now called Altezza), a boutique SEO firm servicing large fashion and retail clients. After a year promoted to Chief-of-Staff supporting the leadership team in the transition to a new technology service model.

  • New York: Business Development Manager for Belgian Tech Start-up Twikit. Opening the US market for Twikit in the automotive (Detroit), fashion (New York) and orthotics and prostetics world (Boston). Pitched at tech events in Silicon Valley and won jury price for best pitch. Our booth presence during a Orthotics and Prostetics Tech Event helped secure 150k investment in the company.

  • The Hague/Leiden: account management and sales at human centered consulting scale-up Bliss.

Career Breaks and Volunteering

Transition and Maternity Leaves supporting setup and development of our family in France, Dallas, New York and the Netherlands.

  • Dallas: Volunteering Dallas Entrepreneur Centre and Thanksgiving Food Distribution.

  • New York: had my first two wonderful children and fully lived the motherhood transition with the warmth of the local (gigantic) Hoboken Mom Community.

  • The Hague: welcomed our third child during a home birth and focused fully on the growth of our family. Volunteering as the weekly host of the Mothers inform Mothers (MiM) playgroup in our international community.
    Parent Representative for my son’s class at our International Waldorf School.

    Teaching Dutch to Expats at the Direct Dutch Institute.

Language Skills

Fluent in Dutch, English and French.
Basic understanding of Spanish and German.

Interested in working with me?

Let's get in touch!