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Special news: Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company is now also based in Rwanda! Also here we hope to contribute to movement and impact with our people-oriented approach to organizational development. Colleague Martine van Es is in Kigali with her family to set up and expand the activities of K&S Rwanda. First insights into the market show that attention to organizational and leadership development is growing. Taking an appreciative, learning perspective on e.g. midterm reviews, collaboration issues or culture change is also gaining traction. And we as K&S are excited to contribute to that.

Give our colleague Maggelien Lambrechts a blank T-shirt. Ask how she would design it. And be assured that a beautiful and unique one will emerge. From this T-shirt, a rich conversation unfolds. About how important family is. About how a study in English and Spanish literature led her into the HR profession. About her career 2.0. And above all: about daring to jump.

'Everything you pay attention to, grows'. Last week Cora Smit, our dear colleague, inspiring mentor and co-founder of our learning company, passed away.

It's one of those Monday mornings. With husband and two muppets aged four and five to the dentist. Who is running late. Of course. Jumping in the car to be on time for an interview. It happened to our new colleague Suzanne van Duin. Once properly installed, on this sunny spring day, a conversation unfolded about UB40, Ennio Morricone, Once Upon a Time in the West, about growing up abroad and how that helps in life. And we talk about the new chapter Suzanne is starting in her working life, at Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company. We would like to introduce her to you. Personal and professional.

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