Klaas De Waal has been a business owner in Europe and the U.S.A. for more than four decades in publishing and coaching. As a leader in communications, he started a newspaper group and marketing PR firm in the Netherlands. After moving to the New York area in 1993, he built a new company, International Media Group, Inc., into a well-established B2B magazine publishing house for large worldwide industries. Klaas also served as advisor and board member for many global trade organizations and was often a key-note speaker at international conferences.
Beside his publishing activities, he also began a successful coaching practice in the New York Tri-State area. Much of the coaching activities were centered around executive, career and life coaching, business re-organization, owner exit strategies, mediation services and mergers and acquisitions.
While working hard as a business owner, he also volunteered time to organizations such as the United Way and a community counseling and mediation agency, serving as chairman and board member, which helped improve people’s lives.
Klaas understands the connections between career success and failure, the links between work issues and stress, and the power of feeling secure instead of insecure. He combines in-depth knowledge of management related issues with proven stress management techniques to turn anxiety into assets, fear into confidence and thoughts into realities. His work merges modern techniques with teachings from both eastern and western schools of thought. Using his unique combination of skills in business and coaching allows him to identify with his client’s challenges and aspirations.
His love for life coaching as a profession lies in the fact that it is profoundly different from consulting, mentoring, advising, therapy, or counseling.
A life coach does not propose a solution and leave you to implement it. Instead, they help you integrate the changes, new skills, and goals making sure they really happen. This is one reason why life coaching is so effective. It is one thing to have the information and quite another to actually make the change!
After many years of seeing the improvements in his clients’ lives, he feels thankful and motivated to continue his work believing that all relationship, career and business endeavors are sacred.
Working as a life coach, Klaas’s ultimate goal is to motivate and improve people’s lives and create True Health, True Wealth and True Love…
