Since I began Successful Speaker Now in September 2011, I have been involved in coaching TEDx speakers. To date, I have coached more than 100 TEDx related speakers from around the world. I am one of the most experienced TEDx coaches in Europe. American comedian and coach Greg Shapiro introduced me to Jim Stolze, the founder of TEDx in The Netherlands who later invited me in to coach TEDx Amsterdam in 2012, and then another and then another. The rest is history.
It is really a sacred job to coach speakers who have ideas worth sharing and are vulnerable to stand up and tell their story. They put their trust in you as the coach to guide them to tell their stories in the best way possible for investors, partners or to just share their idea and their story with the world. I have come to realize that I have been able to step in right when many of these visionaries were right on the edge of breaking through to great successes, but not quite there yet. I was there at the right moment in time to help them craft their stories and to give them the confidence to tell them! Awesome experience that I am honored to have had these last years.
I taught them many things, but they also taught me about trust, courage and belief in yourself.
In 2021 and 2022, I have been the speaker coach for the TEDx Amsterdam Women TALENT NIGHT candidates and had a blast working with these amazing ladies. I coached Sophie-Anne Onland as the winner of Talent Night 2021 on her main stage talk and am honored to work with the 2022 winner Malou van den Berg for her upcoming December 1st, 2022 main stage TED talk.
Here are some of the TEDx events I have coached speakers for:
