Every company wants great talent.
Almost none invest where it starts.
I’ve spent 25 years inside 1,000+ companies, studying how people really learn at work. Most of what we assume about internships and skills development is wrong. I write about why, and what to do instead.
Bestselling author. Nominated Management Book of the Year.
The Little Internship Book for Mentors. A Fieldguide.
A field guide for everyone who is a mentor. Sometimes on purpose. Sometimes by accident. Twenty-two real dilemmas, a pocket-sized toolbox, and the kind of honesty no policy note will give you. Originally a bestseller in Dutch, now rewritten and expanded for an international audience.
Also from the author
The Internship Paradox
Eighteen essays on the broken promise of workplace learning. From Plato’s cave to the modern flex-desk, from Leonardo’s workshop to the skills economy. Skills-based hiring killed the degree. But nobody fixed the place where skills are actually built.
The Future Is Not in the Building
53 tips to run remote or hybrid internships that actually work. Most teams already talk more through screens than across desks. This book shows how to design internships for a world where work no longer happens in one place.
Available for keynotes, workshops, and panels across Europe. In Dutch and English.
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The Internship ParadoxSkills-based hiring is rising. Degrees are fading. The one place where skills are actually built is still unmeasured. A wake-up call with data.
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The Mentor Nobody TrainedWe hand supervisors the next generation’s career and give them zero tools. What happens when you fix that?
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Who Gets In?Internship access is not equal. How bias, geography, and network effects shape who gets a shot at the talent pipeline.
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Assessing What You Can’t SeeQuality at a distance. How to evaluate workplace learning when nobody is in the room.
