Lex van der Heijden has gained over 30 years of knowledge and experience in the global ICT world. He started as a programmer in the real-time process industry (e.g., oil refinery automation) and worked as certified Senior Project Manager at IBM Global Services for 16 years.
Lex has a PMI and Prince2 certification (both Foundation and Practitioner). During his IBM career, Lex was active as an EMEA representative with the IBM global Knowledge Network and Project Management Center of Excellence.
Furthermore, Lex is the father of a young woman with a rare disease. In 1997, Lex founded a global nonprofit patient organization and is its founder president. For more information, please refer to www.cmtc.nl/en.
During the course of Lex’s life, the personal development was expanding to areas other than intellectual development. Lex has been certified in psychosynthesis, a three-year holistic therapy. This type of course starts with self-assessment and reflection because unless a person knows themselves and has worked on their own traumas, they cannot help others.
In 2013, Lex started a company for Program/Project Management, Consultancy, and Personal Coaching. This resulted for instance in a bilingual website: www.lvdhppcp.com that was intended to showcase a holistic approach to life.
Lex has in fact two passions. One passion is to improve the quality of life for people with rare diseases and their families. The other passion is to help people get the best out of themselves (mentor/coach). These two passions also overlap.
Both passions are of course combined with a holistic approach.