Rik van Bastelaar - Personal Development & Performance Improvement Coach and Trainer

Rik was born on the 30th of September 1967 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is a person who truly loves to interact with people and to assist them to get the best out of themselves and improve their performance by using concepts, techniques and skills that have proven themselves to deliver strong results.

Supported with an MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree and having worked internationally for more that than 10 years in the areas of sales, marketing and management, he established GCC Coaching & Training in January 2007. This move allowed him to focus his professional live on his passion to assist people utilizing their personal powers to improve their performance and become more fulfilled with the journey of their lives.

In 2007, Vixian Coaching Solutions and GCC Coaching and Training formed a strategic partnership to bring highly challenging and tailored NLP programs to the markets, allowing both individuals and business to strongly improve their performances.

Coaching specialization:

Rik´s natural interest to discover the ‘person behind the mask’, combined with his result oriented character , allows him to work very well with people who are looking for insight and understanding for personal growth and change or with people who have difficulty and need support in realizing the goals they have set for themselves in their business or private lives.

As qualified academic counselor and coach, a certified practitionar, master practitioner and trainer in the science of Neuro Linguistic Programming and currently studying for the degree of hypnosis trainer, he has backed up these natural strengths with some of the best complementary studies available on the market today.

Often people can create true lasting improvements and changes in their lives once they have laid the foundation by knowing what they want and why they want it. A lot of people skip this steps, resulting in projects that are ended before the desired results are achieved, or worse, resulting in desired projects that are never acted upon.

As a coach Rik likes to work with people who have a strong desire to improve the quality of their professional or personal live or could use some assistance to go through this process. He will assist these people to understand their reasons for wanting change (if not known already) or understanding their (un)conscience behavior for frustrating any progress towards desired results and help them to achieve quick and lasting results.

What others say about Rik as a coach:

Rik is able to combine a peaceful approach with powerful enthusiasm, humor and profundity. He will work with you in an emphatic way to get at the heart of your own personal situation, but more importantly assist you to achieve your desired outcome as quickly as possible. He is able to listen well and make good connections in the stories that people tell in their total communication. He is able to create a situation where you feel free to discuss your own personal situation without being judged, should that be desired. He is fluent in both English and Dutch.

Personal inspiration slogan:

"Don't ever settle for less than who you truly want to be, it's your calling in life..."