I quit my job, sold my apartment in Amsterdam
I have always been drawn to things of scale. Large organisations. Complex questions. Ambitious transformations. The rooms where decisions are made, where ideas either gain momentum or quietly disappear.
For more than twenty years, I worked in senior roles across HR, leadership, organisational development and strategic transformation. I learned how organisations move, how leaders decide, and what it takes to bring people with you when the direction changes.
I was good at the work. I built a career that I worked hard for. Successful on paper, ambitious in energy.
But somewhere along the way, something started to shift. Quietly at first.
My body knew before I did. When it began to protest, I knew: this was serious. I could no longer treat the signals as something to fix so I could continue in the same way. It took that unmistakable signal for me to truly choose differently. Something had to change.
At that point, I could no longer avoid the questions that had been there for some time.
What am I actually contributing? Which ideas do I believe are truly worth building? And is this how I want to keep spending my ambition?
These were not questions about wanting less. I wanted my ambition to mean more.
I left my corporate career, sold my apartment in Amsterdam and moved to Luxembourg. No five-year plan waiting for me. Just experience, curiosity, and a strong sense that something new wanted to be built, even before I could fully explain what.
That period taught me something I now recognise in almost every accomplished leader I work with: we are trained to act on evidence. But ambition rarely arrives with all the evidence in place. At some point, you have to take an idea seriously before you can prove where it leads.
That is exactly why I started Coffee with Corine.
I believe women carry ambition that is intelligent and intuitive at once, and that leadership works best when both are trusted, not just the part that can be measured. I believe the ideas you cannot stop thinking about deserve a real conversation, not just a place on a list of someday-goals. And I believe capable leaders don’t need someone to tell them what to do, they need someone willing to take their ambition as seriously as they do.
Today, I work primarily with female leaders who want to make more possible. As a mentor and strategic sparring partner, I bring a different take on things and more than twenty years of leadership and transformation experience to the table. I listen closely, recognise patterns quickly, and ask the questions that bring the real opportunity into focus.
Together, we look seriously at what you see. We explore which ideas are worth pursuing, where your ambition can make the greatest difference, and what it will take to turn possibility into something real.
Sometimes I offer a perspective you hadn’t considered. Sometimes I recognise the essence underneath a complicated question. Sometimes I connect you to a person, idea or opportunity that opens a door you couldn’t have opened alone.
There is no fixed formula. There is a thoughtful conversation about something you want to make happen, with someone who understands both ambition and the reality it has to succeed in.
With experience, perspective and the right people around you, ambition can become meaningful impact.
Work with me
You bring the idea, opportunity or ambition you want to take further. I bring experience, perspective, sharp questions, and the ability to see the bigger picture without losing sight of what matters to you.
I won’t tell you what your ambition should be. I’ll help you examine it from angles you might have missed, recognise what truly deserves your attention, and make better choices about where to place your time, influence and energy.
Our conversations are thoughtful, honest and practical. You leave with a clearer view of what you want to make happen, and what will actually help you move it forward.
If there’s something you’d like to explore, let’s start with a coffee.
What matters enough to you to build?