The extent to which others have unconditionally helped me the past years is deeply humbling. There are many people who crossed my path and whom I learned from, maybe even without them knowing. The people below however, have played a tremendously important role in my development, for which I will be forever grateful.

• Annette Dölle for having been a great mentor these years.
• Claire Boonstra for welcoming me into Operation Education and for believing in my potential since the very second we met.
• Joni Bais and Bas Janssens for welcoming me into their wonderful company Great Communicatros and teaching me everything I wanted to know about their entrepreneurship.
• Alette Baartmans and Lotte de Rooji for welcoming me into their bureau Thomas en Charles and for teaching me that some things might seem complex, but actually are pretty simple if you take them step by step.
• Clien Wintzen for believing in my skills and offering me the chance to part of the publication of Let's Do This.
• Claudette Verpalen, Nanda Carstens, Anais Besemer and Stef van Wickeren for being the fun, inspiring and loving colleagues they were at Operation Education.
• Ferd van den Eerenbeemt for offering me a chance to give a TEDx talk.
• Leander de Rooji for helping me give a TEDx talk I'm proud of.
• Silje Valestad for inviting me to go on a life changing trip to the Arctic.
• Fraukje Meulenbroek and Elbert-Jaap Schippers of KIEN for endless conversations about organizational culture.
• Betty Huerta for being my dear friend and teaching me about social entrepreneurship.
• Anne van Egmond for being a true friend and ally in my quest for the kind of entrepreneur I want to be.
• Jan Fasen for the fun we've had imagining innovative education.
• Jan Bransen for helping me expand my thinking about learning and education.
• Rutger Siebenga of the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam for taking a chance on me.
• The BKB team for offering me a spot in their academy and teaching me about campaigning, lobbying and politics.
• Ellen Roelofs of NONONS for teaching me the fundamental skills of coaching.
• Dave Jongeneelen en Michel Barth of Better Future for our intersting conversations and offering me the chance to give their yearly Ekhart Wintzen lecture.