How it all began
More than 20 years after our start, True Colours is a collaborative platform for consultants going for change. With True Colours as our common vision. The willingness to learn and experiment from the academic and scientific sectors attracts us, and we also work for business, government and social profit.
The reason? The valuable cross-pollination between those diverse sectors.
Soon there is too much work for the two founders and they set up a network of consultants. In the meantime, the True Colours team includes several specialists with a strong True Colours identity and a clear focus of their own. We can do more together!
Our team
Lisa Boelaert
After a Master’s in Organizational Psychology, I started as an HR professional at Coopers & Lybrand. Several years later, I became an external advisor at Bekaert Stanwick, where the collaboration between engineers and people-workers put me under the spell of change. After 4 years, as a young mother, I started in HR at KU Leuven – the beginning of my passion for the academic world.
And then it was time for something completely new: entrepreneurship with True Colours – reinforced by my experience, lots of training programmes and numberless books. Leadership programmes, organizational and cultural change, coaching, conflict mediation, and more, in wide-ranging sectors: it’s always something different.
Katelijne Callebaut
After tasting 2 years of education and 14 years in the corporate world at KBC, I started in 2000 as an independent (team) coach, trainer, and social mediator.
I work with people from various profit and social profit organizations and on diverse themes such as leadership, collaboration, communication, and change.
I find it incredibly fascinating to see what a theme does to a person, and in a specific context at that. How do human, context, and the subject influence each other? What is needed to empower someone? So that he or she feels their best and thereby can also give their best?
Discovering, remembering, and developing. I look for ways to do this with individuals and groups. And that makes every workday and every group surprisingly interesting and engaging.
Wendy Van den Bulck
As a Germanist, I applied my passion for communication and human relationships for 14 years as a teacher in Dutch, English and German. In 2006, that passion took on a new form: after a training programme, I started coaching supported by the aid of horses, based on body language. That brought me the enormous added value of learning-in-action: doing sinks in more deeply than understanding!
A number of training courses later, solution-oriented working became a second pillar and the common thread in specializations such as experiential learning, leadership and communication. I developed a concept around ‘Unencumbered Communication’, a solution-oriented leadership language.