The True Colours of the Kalico Team
The Kalico team, coordinated by Lisa Boelaert, consists of various specialists with a strong True Colours identity as well as a clear professional focus of their own. Together we can do more! We work mainly for the scientific, educational and research sector and in the (mental) healthcare sector. All our consultants also work in other sectors for a number of projects (industry, government, services, ...).
From our baseline “Dare, Change, Shine”, we offer training and individual coaching, team coaching and strategic organizational advice, always accoriding to the True Colours approach. We also have our own workshop space in Bierbeek: “Maison Mariette” where you can rent workspaces for 1-1 coaching, smaller meetings with groups up to 8 persons or workshops for larger groups up to 25 persons and also a large garden with covered outdoor workspace.
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.
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.
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.
Kristien Brassine
With a PhD in science, my life revolved around building a career for years. I balanced ambitions with personal commitments until burnout forced me to pause. Now, I combine a faculty position at Hasselt University with my passion: coaching.
I'm continually fascinated by the impact coaching has on scientists and teams. What does it take to empower someone so they feel at their best and, in turn, can give their best?
I support researchers and teams on leadership, resilience and well-being, collaboration, and stress prevention. I explore ways to unwind, connect, discover, and grow, making each coaching experience surprising and enriching.
With True Colours, I aim to offer more than a quick fix—I strive to facilitate a profound process of self-awareness and growth.
Karolien Vermeiren
As a Masters in Educational Sciencesand psychotherapist, I have been working in healthcare and education for 25 years. I work with groups and teams and offer individual therapeutic and coaching. Designing and facilitating sessions in which learning and growth are possible, is my passion. I provide training in leadership skills and associated "soft skills" and guide organizations through change processes.
From 2003 to 2010 I lived and worked in Zimbabwe and Indonesia. Since 2020 I have been working part-time for Zorgnet-Icuro where I develop learning initiatives and facilitate processes for managers in healthcare.
In addition to my work as an independent facilitator and trainer, I run a psychotherapy practice together with other therapists. I have studied the impact of trauma on individuals and organizations and frequently work with organizations after traumatic events. I strengthened my skills in this through an EMDR training and a training on organisational constellations.