Your stewards
Philippine Linn, MA, CPCC, PCC
Philippine has been coaching and training entrepreneurs, leaders and executives since 2002 and is deeply committed to help them achieve more self awareness, fulfillment and a greater sense of purpose in their lives.
She loves working on leadership development, experiential learning and instructional design. She holds a Masters degree in Modern Languages from Leiden University and is a CTI & ICF certified coach. She is trained in a variety of leadership tools; Appreciative Inquiry, Non- violent communication, Theory U and Applied Improvisation Skills.
Philippine has designed a Teal Leadership Bootcamp; an open course to develop leaders towards participatory and humane ways of organising work. Together with a network of Teal practitioners and facilitators she hosts Bootcamps throughout Europe and in Mozambique.
Born in The Netherlands and having lived and worked in six countries she has an extensive network of coaches and trainers whom she loves to connect with each other.
Philippine and her husband Hans have three adolescent children (Nadine, Max and Juliette), a black labrador called Pippa and live near Utrecht in The Netherlands.
She loves working on leadership development, experiential learning and instructional design. She holds a Masters degree in Modern Languages from Leiden University and is a CTI & ICF certified coach. She is trained in a variety of leadership tools; Appreciative Inquiry, Non- violent communication, Theory U and Applied Improvisation Skills.
Philippine has designed a Teal Leadership Bootcamp; an open course to develop leaders towards participatory and humane ways of organising work. Together with a network of Teal practitioners and facilitators she hosts Bootcamps throughout Europe and in Mozambique.
Born in The Netherlands and having lived and worked in six countries she has an extensive network of coaches and trainers whom she loves to connect with each other.
Philippine and her husband Hans have three adolescent children (Nadine, Max and Juliette), a black labrador called Pippa and live near Utrecht in The Netherlands.
Erwin van Waeleghem
Erwin wears two hats on and off. A first one as fulltime police commissioner in the City of Leuven (Belgium) and the second one, with real passion and full dedication, as tealspirator and instigator of several initiatives towards more humane and essential values driven leadership. One of those initiatives was starting up the vibrant Teal for Teal Belgium community. He strongly believes in the leadership potential within every person, based in human essentials and common sense.
Erwin joined the Belgian police force at the age of 20 and gathered a long number years of streetwise experience on the beat. In 2000, after successfully finishing his studies in police management and getting a Masters-degree in Criminology, he became a senior officer in the local police force of Oostende. After working as a department head in several entities, in this rigid, hierarchical and bureaucratic organization, he also spend three years in Spain, on leave of absence, working as a quality consultant in the private sector in Gibraltar. His experiences in both private and public sector made him think differently about how organizations, and their most important asset, the people working there, could be lead and organised. In 2013 he started giving lectures and workshops on the principles and possibilities that Ricardo Semler created in his well known company Semco (Brasil). After having read the book ‘Reinventing Organizations’ by his compatriot, Fréderic Laloux, he found a broader base and more collective language that could be used to spread the more humane principles behind ‘Teal’, and thus help other people to bring them inside organizations in any sector.
Erwin still gives lectures on the teal-principles and introduction sessions on the Teal for Teal community in his own country, but now is also available to support likeminded people in setting up their own branch kick-offs in other countries.
Erwin was born and raised in Brugge, Belgium. He now lives very happily, in the province of Limburg, with his wife Riet and his golden retriever Lobbe.
Erwin joined the Belgian police force at the age of 20 and gathered a long number years of streetwise experience on the beat. In 2000, after successfully finishing his studies in police management and getting a Masters-degree in Criminology, he became a senior officer in the local police force of Oostende. After working as a department head in several entities, in this rigid, hierarchical and bureaucratic organization, he also spend three years in Spain, on leave of absence, working as a quality consultant in the private sector in Gibraltar. His experiences in both private and public sector made him think differently about how organizations, and their most important asset, the people working there, could be lead and organised. In 2013 he started giving lectures and workshops on the principles and possibilities that Ricardo Semler created in his well known company Semco (Brasil). After having read the book ‘Reinventing Organizations’ by his compatriot, Fréderic Laloux, he found a broader base and more collective language that could be used to spread the more humane principles behind ‘Teal’, and thus help other people to bring them inside organizations in any sector.
Erwin still gives lectures on the teal-principles and introduction sessions on the Teal for Teal community in his own country, but now is also available to support likeminded people in setting up their own branch kick-offs in other countries.
Erwin was born and raised in Brugge, Belgium. He now lives very happily, in the province of Limburg, with his wife Riet and his golden retriever Lobbe.
Dr. Ernst Bechinie, MCC
Ernst works with passion as a coach, mentor and supervisor for over ten years. He accompanies people in a holistic manner in leadership challenges and in career and personal transitions. Coaching aims for him at “meeting yourself”.
Ernst brings 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and consultant, building up businesses in Germany and Switzerland. First as a partner at the Hay Group and later as the founder and owner of Strata, a company based in Frankfurt focusing on strategy, organization and people management, before selling it to PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Ernst holds a masters degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Vienna.
Besides his work in Psychoanalysis and Gestalt he trained in:
Leadership and Executive Coaching; Solution Focused Brief Coaching; Transformational Coaching; Gestalt-oriented Coaching; Certified Yoga Teacher.
In 2013 Ernst published 'Secrets of Entrepreneurship' showing the successful transformation of people to independent entrepreneurs.
He is Swiss and Austrian and lives with the love of his life in Pully (Lausanne area).
Ernst brings 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and consultant, building up businesses in Germany and Switzerland. First as a partner at the Hay Group and later as the founder and owner of Strata, a company based in Frankfurt focusing on strategy, organization and people management, before selling it to PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Ernst holds a masters degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Vienna.
Besides his work in Psychoanalysis and Gestalt he trained in:
Leadership and Executive Coaching; Solution Focused Brief Coaching; Transformational Coaching; Gestalt-oriented Coaching; Certified Yoga Teacher.
In 2013 Ernst published 'Secrets of Entrepreneurship' showing the successful transformation of people to independent entrepreneurs.
He is Swiss and Austrian and lives with the love of his life in Pully (Lausanne area).
