Life experience, training, qualities, coaching
About five years ago I, Peter van Luijn, began coaching on the beach.
Coaching is a broad concept and to me it resembles consultancy. There is only one small difference: consultancy is more concerned with content while coaching is more focussed on personal development.
In different positions in diverse organizations, in the past years I have worked in the areas of human resources, organization and change processes. Counselling and coaching have always been my passion: client- and result-oriented. With my own company, Reflaction Management BV in The Hague, since 1996 I have been providing management consultancy and interim management services, and coaching.
My educational background is in Human Resources Management (Breda), Management Consultancy (Nijenrode), Sociology (University of Amsterdam), Culture, Organisation & Management (VU Amsterdam), Quality Management (Qualtec, Florida, USA), Insight into Influence and Negotiation (Zaltbommel), Network Marketing (WIN, Texas, USA), Consultancy Skills, Professional Coaching and Train-the-Trainer. Also extensive self-study in Psychology.
Furthermore I have gained my own life experience: personal ups-and-downs, experience with psychologists and psychiatrists, group processes, learning curves, giving and receiving advice, guidance and coaching, self-employment, own companies; I am the son of divorced parents, married, divorced, (sadly) no children, live with a Bernese Mountain Dog named “8ty”, am sportive, and love travelling, nature and animals. I am a generalist in the broadest sense, with a passion for people, organizations, development, learning and living. And I delight in challenges.
Personal qualities: strong and vigorous, can move people to action, authentic, energetic, analytic, enterprising, communicative, perceptive, open-minded, positive, active, holistic, direct.