He combines the best of two completely different worlds.
After 20 years of managing his own marketing company, specialized in fulfilment, he felt it was time for something else. Next to some other activities that he was still doing, he started working in 2015 as an Innovation Coach for the Belgian reputed company Living Tomorrow ('House of the Future') where he thinks and teaches about the future every day in a higly technological environment.
Connected to this job he often comes into contacts with Belgian and foreign ministers, Euro commissionaries and European politicians.
He even had the honor to greet and explain some innovations to the Belgian king (photo above).
In the picture to the right you see Dirk with Belgian Vice Prime Minister Kris Peeters.
On the other hand, he is what nowadays so romantically is called a horse whisperer.
He does not like that word too much himself, because it seems too mysterious. "Yes, I have a certain feeling for animals and it enables me to handle horses in a relaxed way. But everybody can learn this 'horse whispering'. For some, it will go faster than for others en the ultimate level will be different from person to person. But a good timing will already get you a long way."
Dirk started horse riding in the traditional way.
Along the way, he started studying and practicing natural horsemanship. He owned 45 acres of land in France, where he managed a horse hotel for several years. There were in between 35 and 40 horses present permanently, where they were able to grow up in a very natural way. Days and days on end, you could find Dirk in those prairies, watching the horses, almost living amongst them. This thought him really a lot.
So, often you will hear Dirk say that his real teachers have been the horses.
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