Alain Goudsmet
56 years old and specialized for more than 20 years in mental, emotional, individual and collective performance from psychological and physical point of views, Alain Goudsmet has his roots both in...
Alain Goudsmet has his roots both in the world of sports and businesses.
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56 years old and specialized for more than 20 years in mental, emotional, individual and collective performance from psychological and physical point of views, Alain Goudsmet has his roots both in the world of sports and businesses.
Top Sport Coach: Trainer-Coach for the Belgian Tennis Federation (since 1980); Mental Coach for Belgian Men’s Hockey Team, participating to the Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Mental Coach for the Belgian Women’s Hockey Team qualified for the London Olympic Games 2012.
‘Executive Coach’ since 1996 : coaching of corporate leaders and their teams. In 1996, Alain founded the Mentally Fit Institute, a scientific multidisciplinary association which brings together scientists and specialists in energetic areas of human potential: doctors, nutritionists, psychologists and mental coaches.
Today, beside his regular interventions in companies, Alain Goudsmet devotes his time between three complementary activities:
Sport: Alain was the mental coach of the Belgian National Men’s Hockey team, bronze medal winners in the European Championship in Manchester (2007) and Top 10 at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. After Beijing, Alain accepted the challenge to support the Belgian National Women’s Hockey team. This supported their qualification to the 2012 London Olympic Games, the first time in Belgium sport history that a Women’s Team has qualified for the Olympic Games.
Academia : Alain directs and intervenes in several post-graduate programs as an expert in Team Coaching and Human Resources at the Solvay Business School (Brussels) in the Executive Master in Management, as a Adjunct Professor at INSEAD (Fontainebleau) in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, as a leading expert in the Special Diploma in Business Coaching at IESEG in the Post Graduate Education Program (Lille), as the Leading Expert of the Manager Coach Diploma at ICHEC Enterprises (Brussels), in the Post Graduate Education Program and as a Supervisor at Louvain School of Management UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve) in the Master in Business Coaching.
Writing : Alain is the author of ‘The Corporate Athlete’ (Kluwer 2002 in French, Kluwer 2003 in English and Dutch), co-author of ‘Attitude Coach’ (Kluwer 2004, in French) and ‘Tout est dans le caractère’ (It’s all in the character) (Racine/Lannoo 2007, in French & Dutch).
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LITTLE RIVER BAND OF OTTAWA INDIANS
Our speaker was great and the crowd enjoyed her! She was very engaging. Thank you again PDA for the great list of suggestions!
MEDTRONIC
Everything went great! and our speaker was wonderful! Thank you so much for all your help PDA! Looking forward to the next one.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – KANSAS CITY
I hope that this message finds you well. We had a phenomenal time with Atsuko this past Thursday. We wanted to just let you know how amazing she was. All those that were in attendance thoroughly enjoyed her and had nothing but amazing things to say about her. Thank you for working with us to make sure this happened!
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
We had a fantastic day with Inge! She was very engaging with all those that attended. Her personal stories about the holocaust were very special and we were moved that she was willing to share them with everyone. Thank you again, PDA for all your hard work and dedication to make this program such a success!
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Dear PDA Group, Thank you so much for your hard work in scheduling our speaker! From the moment we reached out to you the first time, you worked with us on all details and logistics and kept us up-to-date on the progress. Thank you for all your hard work on making our event such a success! We couldn't have done it without you and your team!
SAP COMPANY
Thank you again, Dr. Kimbrough, for a great presentation, our attendees are still talking about it!
CAMPUS LABS
Dr. Henry Lee's presentation was entertaining, insightful and wise. I, and everyone at Pfizer, especially appreciate the remarks you directed about following your passion and preparing yourself to excel. Thank you, everyone, at PDA for helping to make this happen!
PFIZER
The event was successful! I received many messages expressing how awesome, outstanding and inspiring Ms. Webb-Christburg's speech was."
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEMORIAL BREAKFAST, BOSTON, MLK SPEAKER
Everything went well. Atsuko was very easy to work with and the students enjoyed her performance! Thank you again for your recommendation and I hope to work with you again in the future!
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Dr. Novello left this morning after a very successful event on our campus! Thank you PDA Group for your help from the first phone to the last you were with us every step of the way.
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
Jordan Carlos was very very entertaining! A majority of students who answered the event survey indicated they really enjoyed Jordan and definitely will bring him back!
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
On behalf of myself and my organization Entertainment Unlimited the Campus Programming Board of Ferris State University, we thank you PDA and Dan for a successful event!! Dan was magnificent! Students really enjoyed the presentation. I know I did. Can't wait to bring in more programs with PDA Group.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
It was a great pleasure to work with PDA Group! The communication was always prompt, friendly and helpful. We loved the speakers and events we booked through Mr. Peter Walker (PDA Group).
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Thank you, Peter, for all your help, you'll be happy to know that the event went incredibly well! Aneesa Ferreira was by far one of the best speakers we've ever had!
FURMAN UNIVERSITY
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