Welcome to Calanques Consulting

After 20 years of company life with suits, airplanes and boardrooms, Calanques Consulting was born early 2023 with the idea to start an exciting new chapter in my life by doing what I like and do best. By looking back at my career, I found that its red line has been relying around 2 main activities: solving scientific problems in order to commercialise new products as well as support young team members to perform at their best. In the end through this very simple reflection I discovered what really mattered in my life and I was able to pinpoint my main 2 driving forces in my life: a passion for both science and the outdoors.

After this conclusion, I tried to boil my passion down to one combined business relying on the following complementarities: science and fun, chemistry and psychology, catalysts and nature and finally consulting and coaching.  While all these complementarities need 2 different words, they’re actually closely related. Unfortunately to my knowledge only in the Dutch language the term “natuurkunde” or natural science is able to bring my 2 passions together in one word.

Calanques Consulting combines these 2 by providing services in both polyolefins consulting and personal coaching while being in nature. While result-driven, my aim is to have fun in the process as my fundamental belief is that you’ll achieve better results while being happier. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination” (by Roy M. Goodman).

The consulting part revolves around applying my experience in big petrochemical majors to help solving problems of emerging companies in the area of polyolefins. While all of our clients identities remain confidential, they span the full range of the value chain from catalyst producers to resin manufacturers and even plastic convertors, from start-up’s to global multinationals.