Bernardus Holtrop

​About Bernardus:

Bernardus Holtrop is lead facilitator and designer of transformational leadership development experiences, executive team facilitator and an executive coach with Linkage. Within his leadership work, he is passionate about spotting untapped potential in leaders and supporting them to unlock stuck patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors. He works with leaders to deeply connect to themselves and others, and with teams to foster trust and (re)build relationships to create results. A global citizen with residences in the Netherlands and the United States, he translates leadership across cultures effortlessly.

Bernardus is one of the creators of Linkage’s Purposeful Leadership Academy, as well as a long-term leader and expert in Advancing Women Leaders and Creating Cultures of Inclusion. In the last year, Bernardus has coached numerous Sponsors in Sponsorship programs for Advancing Women.

Background & Experience:

Over the last 15 years, Bernardus facilitated leadership development experiences across many sectors of business and public space, including professional services, private equity, manufacturing, energy, electronics, banking, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, entertainment, retail and fast-moving consumer goods.

Previously Bernardus was a strategy and organizational consultant and leadership development program manager at McKinsey & Company, after having started his career as a researcher and application developer at the Dutch Institute for Applied Physics.

Education & Training:

Bernardus earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente and an MBA in General Management from the Rotterdam School of Management. He is a certified transformational coach who helps individuals create breakthroughs in their professional and personal lives.