'Shining Together' through Coaching and Training of Spirited Leadership of yourself and others

Experience how awareness inspires your work

Coaching & Training with Martin Thoolen - Awareness at Work

Looking for a very experienced and expertise psychologist/coach, trainer or inspirer with proven qualities for you, your team or organization?

  • Effective and Inspiring Leadership
  • Transition Management
  • Team Spirit
  • Personal Leadership & Professional Effectiveness
  • Personal Resilience & Sustainable Employability
  • Career development
  • Mediation
  • Life choices
  • Bereavement
  • Satisfying Relationships

Individually or in a group? In the Netherlands or internationally? Then you've come to the right place. Because inspiring and guiding individuals, teams, and organizations in Personal or Collective Leadership is my passion and specialty. Whether you work as a leader, director, CEO, CFO, entrepreneur, manager, professional, employee, doctor, artist, or simply as a private individual, with over 30 years of professional experience, I can help you, your team, or organization with many questions.

Whether it's developing or executing individual (executive) coachings, teamcoachings, courses, in-company trainings, leadership or organizational development programs, masterclasses, consulting, public speakings, or retreats,

As a psychologist, I increase self-awareness with professional impact. You'll become aware of the effects of your behavior and choices, and how you can optimize them for your work or life. Because I address not only your behavior but also the roots of it, the results are often lasting: strength from within. You, your team, or your organization will receive in-depth and practical insights and exercises that will directly lead to greater positivity and effectiveness, so we can "shine together." The benefit of: Awareness at work.

If you'd like to know exactly what I can do for you, see my services here: https://martinthoolen.com/en/service/

If you'd like to be inspired by podcasts, short blog posts, literature, or more, visit the Inspiration page on top.

Customers

Martin Thoolen bekroond als beste Bewustzijnscoach & Psycholoog 2023 van Nederland door GHP Mental Health Awards

Awarded as Best Awareness Coach & Psychologist 2023

The international organization GHP Mental Health Awardshas proclaimed me as 'Best Awareness Coach & Psychologist of 2023 in the Netherlands'.

To determine the results Global Health & Pharma's judging panel and research team take into consideration commitment, expertise and innovation shown by nominees through nomination information, voting information, any supporting evidence that you have supplied, along with the results from their own extensive period of fact-checking and research.

(For more information about the international organization Global Health & Pharma, see https://ghpnews.digital/).

What customers are saying:

Services - Awareness at work

My in-depth, process-focussed and practical result-oriented approach rapidly produces fundamental results. How wonderful is it to see potential come to light and talents really shine. A true transformation, like an eagle spreading its wings and taking you higher, to a place with more clarity, overview and strength.

Executive coaching

Whether you are a CEO/CFO, administrator or a topmanager, in a few coaching sessions you will experience major steps leading to concrete results.

Career Coaching

Here you quickly get a clear picture of what you can, want and dare to do, and which position suits you best so that you can go back to work. With optimal personal customization.

Expat Coaching

Working in The Netherlands as an expat? Or as a Dutch expat abroad? You can use some support as an international professional to find your way? Maybe Expat Coaching is just for you!

Coaching: Burn out & sustainable employability

Strengthen your personal resilience here, so that you can work and remain more vital for your organization.

Life coaching 1-on-1

In a number of one-on-one coaching sessions you make visible and tangible better steps that make your life lighter. Life coaching mainly focuses on private related questions.

Teamcoaching

As an experienced team coach, I provide insights and exercises that free your team to work together more enjoyably and effectively.

Masterclasses '(Spirited) Personal Leadership'

Graag lever ik een inspirerende bijdrage met masterclasses. Ik heb jarenlange professionele ervaring in de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van diverse seminars voor organisaties uit verschillende branches.

Mastercourse: 'Spirited Personal Leadership'

Want to get more control about your work, leaving you with more energy, effectiveness, meaning and passion? And contribute to a better world at the same time? That is possible through 'Spirited Personal Leadership'.

In-company trainings & workshops

In the last 30 years I have provided a multitude of in-company training courses and workshops for a wide range of companies. With an overall average score of 8,5 on evaluations.

Retreat ‘Awareness at work’

During the retreat you gain insight into how three strengths determine everything in your life. All your behaviour and choices. The first strength is your ego, which you get to know better with

Organizational Psychologist (in-house)

It is people who can make a successful team of organizations. From breaking. To upgrade your organization, a 'permanent' or 'internal' organizational psychologist often offers (temporary) results.
Any doubts? Experience it yourself. You are very welcome for a free orientation.

Spirited Personal Leadership

for effective work, meaningful living and a better world

Author: Martin Thoolen (©2023)

"Absolutely recommended! Beautifully profound and very practical! A masterpiece. Inspiring and down-to-earth. I wish I'd known this when I was younger. Written specifically for me! What a beautiful book! Very valuable!"

Do you want to work more effectively? Or live a more meaningful life? Or contribute to a better world? Or all of the above? You can do that. Every day. How? With Spirited Personal Leadership.

This book is intended for anyone who, in their private or work life, wants to:

  • work more effectively;
  • develop their talents further;
  • have a healthy work/life balance;
  • increase the amount of control they have in their own life and work;
  • experience more pleasure, passion, meaning and vitality;
  • feel more inner peace and quiet;
  • to contribute to better relationships - privately as well as in business;
  • make a meaningful contribution to a better world.

Regardless of whether you are a leader, lawmaker, entrepreneur, manager, professional, associate, student, parent, family member, teenager or an adult.

What to expect?
This book will take you straight to the source of all your choices and behaviors. It will give you accessible insights, inspiring examples and exercises that you’ll be able to apply immediately, and see results of quickly. You will gain insight into the three forces that determine each and every one of your choices, behaviors and personal leadership: ego, soul and consciousness (spirit).

The following questions will be answered: What is ego anyway? Should you jettison your ego? What are the benefits of ego, and what are its pitfalls? Or, what is the soul? Is there a reason for our existence? What are the five existential tasks the soul has to tackle? What are the pros and cons of working and living from inspiration? And, what is spirit or consciousness? How can you utilize it more to have smoother relationships in private and at work and to create more peace for yourself and others around you? In the last section of the book you will see how you can make a real contribution towards a better world.

The new book is packed with over 300 pages of inspiration! The retail price is €34.95 per book.

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Inspiration

Down below you can visit the latest 3 items published on this page

Working more enjoyably and effectively straight away?

Er is een net een kersverse nieuwe podcast uit! Eentje die je werk direct fijner en effectiever maakt. Hoe? Door te werken met spirit. Zweverig? Nee hoor, heel concreet. Met inzichten die je direct kunt toepassen voor jezelf, je team of organisatie. Gewoon door makkelijk even kort te luisteren. Ontdek het hier: Over Spiritueel werk: […]
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Martin Thoolen | 13 January 2026

How Music Connects, Touches the Soul, and can Heal

We all know it. Music can touch and heal the soul. What would it be like if you surrounded yourself more often with the kind of music that gives you just that? Without losing touch with reality and your fellow human beings. And what actually happens when you do it? I'd like to briefly share some experiences here about how listening to and making music can be inspiring, along with some tips for you:
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Martin Thoolen | 8 January 2026

How 2026 can become hopeful for you

How can 2026 become hopeful? With the darkness around us that seems to be drawing ever closer, you'd almost think it's an utopia. And yet it is possible, if you start working and living more from an infinite energysource. Take a look.
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Martin Thoolen | 2 January 2026
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