About company coach Chris Cotteleer
Chris Cotteleer is a passionate business coach with decades of experience in coaching teams within companies.
He worked internationally for many top brands such as Poggenpohl, Porsche, Mercedes, hülsta, Audi, VW, SONY, SieMatic, Auping, Caterpillar, ... in short, a list far too long to mention in full (but of course available in detail on request). At the request of these brands, Chris travelled around the world to support the dealerships locally in Sales and Leadership. These assignments led him to Australia, the Middle East, Asia, North America and many countries in Europe. Chris gives the coaching sessions in 4 languages (Dutch, English, French and German).
Chris is the author of several books on Life Coaching, Sales and Leadership:
Iron Lifestyle
(Personal Life Coaching)
Take your life in your own hands
(Personal Life Coaching)
26 Principles of Growth
(Leadership)
Crisis management
(Leadership)
Vend or Bend
(Sales Coaching)
Chris also tries every mental coaching technique on himself.
This has resulted in many extreme achievements with, proportionally, a minimum of physical training (compensated to a large extent by "mental thinking techniques"). A few achievements:
- 26 marathons in 2 years, distributed all over the world and with the aim of raising 26,200 € for a charity project (the result was +30,000 €)
- First Belgian to run a marathon on all continents (including Antarctica) (7 continents)
- Finisher of several 100 km races and finisher of the Comrades Marathon (90 Km uphill event in South Africa).
- Finisher of the 'Marathon des Sables' probably one of the toughest ultrarunning events in the world.
Chris Cotteleer holds a Master's degree in Industrial Design
Product Development - Cum laude. Chris has won several design competitions, including:
- The Golden Egg: award for creativity and innovation
- 2 X the Gold Medal at the World Fair of Inventions
- Red Cross Prize for the design of an Orthopaedic tricycle
Chris has 2 Master Practitioner degrees in N.L.P. (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
He followed further training courses with, among others:
- Richard Bandler (Founder of NLP)
- Peter Wrycza (Transformational Coach and author of Living Awareness)
- Judith Delozier (Co-founder of NLP)
- Raymond Hostie (Professor Emeritus - Theologian)
- Jan Ardui (Intl. NLP-teacher)
- Raymond Stulens (training to be a Hypnotherapist)
- Etc...
