Josselien Janssens
Trainer-coach leadership development, team building, emotional resilience to stress
I help you harness the horsepower in your leadership for greater job satisfaction and less stress. The natural herd behavior of horses serves as a powerful and highly effective mirror and source of inspiration for authentic and effective human leadership in my work.
My focus is on leadership development, team building, and stress management — a crucial yet often overlooked part of leadership responsibility that starts with yourself.
In addition to the natural herd dynamics of horses, key sources of inspiration in my leadership and team development approach include the Polyvagal Principle, the ODIN Development Compass, the principles of win-win negotiation, and the Deep Democracy approach.
My approach is based on
Who is Josselien?
I worked for many years as a team and process leader at the international and multicultural environmental organization Greenpeace. Since 2010 I have worked as an independent trainer, specialising in the
natural leadership factors that make leaders and teams excellent. I am committed to conveying those insights to as many leaders and teams as possible.
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In recent years I have worked independently as well as together with Dutch and Belgian training agencies. In my training approach for international professionals in business, government,
and non-profit organizations I combine my own work experience with the best practice standards from the professional training, coaching and equestrian world.
In addition to my work with leaders and teams, I offer the Eponaquest certification training to therapists, coaches and equine professionals . In the leadership role I fulfill there, I face similar challenges to the leaders of companies I coach. As a horsewoman and leader, I take my own medicine every day! In addition, I continue to invest in my own development as a trainer and coach.
The horsepower behind EQMPower!
These three horses have been my long time personal "team mates". In addition to them, I work with several great coach horses at different locations - such as Sephaniah, the white horse in the photo above, from Stal 't Lage Veld in Lunteren, the NL.
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Billie (top coach in pocket size)
NEVER underestimate Shetland ponies like Billy. In the wild, they survive in places
where big horses don't make it. They can grow three times their body weight (from
+/- 150-200 kg). With their small bodies and enormous stamina
they have made the coal industry great. The 'speed gene' of the English
Thoroughbred is traced back to a Shetland pony like Billy, who lived 300 years ago....
Do you dare?
'Alfayiz' (='winner') Krystl Gucci
Gucci is my 24-year-old Arabian stallion, which has been awarded several times at European level. As a former stallion, he is too temperamental to use as a coach horse. Although I don't coach with him, he is an important member of my team, because he is my most important leadership trainer. His dressage experience lifts my equestrianism to a higher level and with his dominant "stallion humor" he keeps my leadership sharp.
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Raya (+2025 - inspiration and great remedy)
Raya is my mare and my most important teacher in this work. The name Raya has meaning in several languages: it is a Hebrew word for "Friend", it means "Figurehead" in Arabic, "Royal" in Indonesian, "Grand" in Russian and "Sunbeam" in Spanish. For the past 15 years in my practice Raya was all this, for me and the many clients who worked with her have.
Partners
As independent professionals, we work together on larger training projects and we strengthen each other in serving our areas of expertise.
In offering our trainings we collaborate with equine centers in the Netherlands (near Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ede, Apeldoorn, Grave and Almkerk), Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the US and the UK.
Babs Jasper
Expertise: Leadership in healthcare, and ptsd guidance
Master in Biology and Policy and Organization, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Prince 2
project manager, Trainer-coach Equine Facilitated Learning. Babs has been working for years
experience as a consultant and manager. She offers leadership training to professional
teams and brings experiential horse work into therapy programs for military
veterans to help them overcome PTSD. She is also a co-facilitator in the
Dutch Eponaquest certification training.
Esther van Oorspronk
Master in Human Movement Sciences and Business Administration,
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. After working as a business consultant for several years, Esther started her own company as a trainer-coach equine facilitated learning. They focuses on helping clients to harness the power of their analytical skills by using the social and emotional intelligence of horses with the Master Herder model.
Irene Robben
Master in International Law and Global Governance, specializing in Human Rights.
In addition to her job as a policy advisor for local government, Irene started a few years ago she started her own company in horse-assisted learning. She coaches individuals and groups to set healthy boundaries and thus find balance between private and business relationships.
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Rixta de Bode
Bachelor in Education, Human Behavior and Management.
Rixta has 25 years of professional work experience in education, including as director of a school, and is trained in Natural Horsemanship. It offers experiential learning with horses to (school) leaders and their teams to teach them in dealing with the challenges of their profession by supporting their social and improve emotional intelligence.
Marina Parris
Lives in Switzerland. She has a background in corporate and corporate change management and has worked in the US, Switzerland and France in the field of quality, training and purchasing. In 2011 she became a certified Eponaquest coach, with over 17 years of experience in equine and leadership development. Marina has wild horses in their natural habitat and continues to study with Linda Kohanov. She is also a published author and writes about leadership and Horse-human relations in various publications.
Jan de Vries
With a background in business administration and psychology, he combines
Jan's lifelong passion for horses with his expertise in leadership, teamwork and organizational development. In 2011 he obtained his certification in systemic equine-assisted coaching, later extended to trauma therapy. He provides experiential training programs and helps individuals and teams to sustainable growth.
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