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With over 18 years of experience as a Mentor trainer, Thijs van Loon (1976) has been providing professionals in over 60 countries with the newest skills in Sales, Communication, Team Management and Train the Trainer courses, as well as executive coaching sessions.
Having worked at Apple and Google for most of his career, Thijs embodies the best practices used in these companies throughout his workshops and coaching. His focus is on making things practical, so trainees and coachees can immediately apply what is learned in their own working or personal environment. Everything he trains has been field tested and has helped businesses thrive. Next to a Mentor trainer, Thijs is also an NLP Master Practitioner and Psych-k certified Coach.
As the founder and director of Betterworks Asia, he provides leaders, top talent and companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia with a trusted program for professional skills improvement and coaching.
Our mission
Customized strategies to improve your organizational learning effectiveness, leading to more efficient professional development.
Our Vision
Focus on elevating your team’s leadership abilities, leading to stronger internal dynamics and enhanced overall organizational productivity
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Sebastian Schaffarczyk
Managing partner AdStart Media - HCMC, Vietnam
My company has worked with Thijs on areas such as Learning & Development, HR and Coaching. I am very happy with the quality of work and the way he collaborated with me and my team. Thijs has build us a learning program, coached my senior team (and myself) and still provides in-house workshops on many topics around leadership, management, sales & negotiation strategies and cultural exchange. Whatever your project, I can highly recommend working with Thijs!
Bernard Kerveyn
Founder and Director Mekong Plus - HCMC, Vietnam
We met with Thijs really by chance, at the Belgo and this has been our lucky day! Our local teams are doing great in managing the projects but Thijs has helped to speak about them, to present them in a clear and attractive manner, to people with a different culture: visitors and funders. This is key for the sustainability of the teams as well as for the future of the projects. Thank you Thijs!, we are all more confident and convincing. You are always encouraging and positive!
Neve Tailor
Director at Speaker Study - London, U.K.
Thijs is an exceptional communicator. He has an innate ability to create a safe and supportive space for his audience and easily builds a relationship of trust and credibility with his learners. He delivers with great humour, passion and confidence and it is a pure pleasure to be part of his classroom. I loved to watch the care he takes with his learners, listening carefully to their questions and guiding them towards growth with his responses. If you’re in Thijs’s hands you’re in safe hands!
I very much enjoyed working with Thijs in our time together at Apple, he is an outstanding trainer and generally great human to be around!
Rui Vicente
Manager and Trainer at RV Academia, Portugal
Worked directly with Thijs during his Apple years. A very dedicated and professional colleague, always searching for solutions and news ways of getting things done. Great communicator to broader or smaller groups, always with a smile on his face. He was crucial to develop our trainers and staff, and I’m sure that whatever are his challenges he accomplishes in the best possible way!
Fili Wiese
Consultant SEO Audits - Berlin, Germany
I had the privilege of working with Thijs at Google where he really excelled as a great trainer on many different subjects. He is excellent at captivating his audience and giving constructive feedback. Thijs also has a great sense of humor and is very easygoing and approachable. It is was an absolute pleasure to work with Thijs.
Leif Erik Moe Paulsen
Sales trainer and learning designer - Norway
I got to know Thijs when we both were working as sales trainers for Apple, and later when he was a Sales Readiness Lead for Apple. He was always a very professional, knowledgeable and passionate trainer, and also a very forthcoming and warm person who always took time to make others feel welcome. I would recommend Thijs to anyone in need of a person skilled and experienced in the field of (sales) training and people development.
Ly Thuy Phan
Saigon Hi-Tech park director, HCMC
I have worked with Thijs van Loon on organizing the training and networking event for all Start-up business supporters in the South of Vietnam, including the southern provinces government officials. Not only was Thijs able to create a 2 day facilitation session that involved all 45 participants, he was also able to keep everyone occupied and build a program that reflected the best practices around marketing, sales, start-up knowledge and best practices to pitching to investors. He is a great facilitator who was able to involve everyone for 2 days straight, even without speaking Vietnamese. I am happy to work with him again.
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