About
Ambits reinforces managers in their leadership through Business Mentoring. To bring your people and business into balance.
Your people are struggling to implement a new strategy. Your implementation is out of control due to human bottlenecks. You attempt to solve it with training, coaching, and more consultancy. We’ve heard it time and time again.
Ambits offers a new service, centered on pragmatically guiding your people in their personal transition in becoming an effective leader.
Our vision
Helping to achieve your leadership ambitions
We reinforce managers in their leadership via the guidance of business mentors with the expertise and the wisdom to create an immediate and sustainable impact.
Team
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Gerrit Sarens - Founder, Chief Inspiration Officer and Co-CEO
An all-around entrepreneur with strong academic roots.
Hands-on experience as a consultant and director in diverse organizational contexts.
Strong interest in leadership challenges & (self-) leadership development.
Strongly convinced that better leaders lead to better organizations which has a positive impact on society. It’s our moral duty as organizations to support our leaders. Leadership development is a life-long journey.
Passionate about sharing knowledge and experience; and inspiring people.
"If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started."
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Frank Timmermans - Co-CEO
An entrepreneur with a growth mindset who acts as a sounding board and advisor to executives at times of growth and change.
Inspires & leads with purpose. Leads with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Always looking for a sound balance between strategic thinking and execution excellence.
A solid experience in designing, coaching, and engaging with international teams combined with vast experience in company transformations and M&A.
A seasoned C-Level executive in technology-driven innovative companies with 25+ years of international business experience.
“Inner calm and happiness are the natural consequences of a life lived well, in accordance with genuine wisdom and self-discipline.”
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Yannick Van Aken - Head of Growth
A result-driven but people-oriented entrepreneur. More than 15 years of hands-on experience in Sales, Marketing, Coaching, Recruitment, Leadership and Learning & Development and helped +100 sales organizations enhance performance and overall productivity.
Passioned about Live-long Learning, Career Development, Psychology and Growth.
Strongly convinced that Personalized, Human-Centric Leadership is the most effective way of driving your people, and thus your business forward in a sustainable way.
"You Can Have Everything in Life You Want if You Will Just Help Enough Other People Get What They Want.” – Zig Ziglar
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Claire Deconinck - Growth & Partnership
An experienced, dedicated, and passionate entrepreneur. Appreciated for her enthusiastic, pragmatic and empathetic approach.
20 years of Business experience in people & change management, digital project management & Agile transformation, and cultural transformation.
For the past years, focusing on leadership and company culture, through various roles: mentoring, coaching, consulting and being a leader herself.
Firm believer companies need to invest in (self-)leadership and company culture in order to obtain engagement, high performance in a nice working environment.
Passionate about supporting and inspiring leaders to become a better version of themselves, adapted to the Business context, so that they can inspire others to become better themselves.
"Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny."
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Liesbet Peeters - Customer Excellence Officer
A purpose-driven leader with a passion for learning, personal growth, and sustainable value creation.
It is my mission to lead and live with courage and compassion and to make a meaningful impact.
During the 20 years of my corporate career in the pharmaceutical sector, I discovered my passion for helping people grow and unlock their full potential and that of their teams and organizations. It is most rewarding to guide people on their personal growth journey and to ignite personal and collective transformation.
I firmly believe that together we can create positive ripple effects of impact contributing to a better world.
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
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Sabine Verhelst - Customer Excellence Officer
"People-oriented leader with years of operational management experience in a rapidly changing context. Motivated by a solid challenge, and by building strong teams together to achieve shared objectives. Advice and mentoring with a human touch. Daring to dive into the undercurrent to unravel patterns and dynamics. Passionate to continuously learn and stimulate movement for further growth and evolution.
Motto: "Slow down to accelerate".
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Jasper Savelkoel - Customer Excellence Officer
"As an economist by training, with +25 years of experience in the financial sector, including 11 as a senior manager, I have a passion for people who dare. I myself am often described as optimistic, honest, result-oriented, fun, committed, down-to-earth, flexible, and a tad stubborn. The basis of cooperation is trust. Strong adaptability leads to success. I am married to Sarah, father of a daughter Qian, living in pleasant Aartselaar, a cycling enthusiast, and a lifelong Ajax fan.”
Motto: "´The vision point does not see itself´"
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Ivan De Jonghe - Sales
C-level executive with a 35-year track record in the FMCG industry, of which 31 years at Henkel.
Leadership roles in various domains and countries enriched with leadership- and management training at a.o. Harvard, INSEAD, IESE, and Thunderbird.
A firm believer that people-centric leadership based on deep purpose & strong values brings out the best in individuals, teams, and organizations.
Today it still is guiding Ivan in fulfilling his deep purpose which is to help individuals, teams, and organizations with their leadership- and business challenges in today’s increasingly complex, dynamic, and challenging environment.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
