Renate van Dijken (1979) is a leading expert in the fields of consumer psychology, positioning and business communications. As the founder and director of Your Branding, Renate lives her companys...
Renate van Dijken (1979) is a leading expert in the fields of consumer psychology, positioning and business communications. As the founder and director of Your Branding, Renate lives her companys mission of transforming business communications. Your Branding consults and trains businesses in positioning and communications - both in what they say and how they say it.
Renate works closely with her clients to customize innovative programs and solutions that create awareness in communications and solve their evolving communications challenges. Her efforts caught the attention of New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell. This resulted in a partnership with The John Maxwell Team: an elite group of certified coaches and communicators who use a customized version of Your Brandings leadership and communication game. More recently Renate has come up with a tool that is practical and directly applicable to the most important opportunity managers and teams have for communication: team meetings. In a fun, interactive, and edifying way managers and teams assess communication, address difficult topics, motivate and activate team members in 8 accessible rounds.
Van Dijken is an experienced platform speaker who inspires, motivates and entertains audiences. Renate is known for connecting with audience members and conveying easy-to-understand communication techniques. Renate has worked with companies inside and outside the Netherlands (e.g. Pepsi Cola, Abn Amro, T-Mobile, etc.) and has spent three years living and working in the U.S.A. She is used to dealing with international crowds.
Topics of speaking
Renate will customize her message for your audience, using your cases and themes that could include aspects from the following topics:
Behavioral psychology & influence - recognize the client type and have an impact!
"Last week, we had our get “Together” days for our R&T EU department in DSM Engineering Materials. What did we really miss in two years most of us working at home besides the social interactions and coffees? It was the phenomena “Serendipity” Finding something good, without looking for it. Everybody will have experienced such a coincidental cross-talk triggering you on a development opportunity, or getting you in connect with somebody that appeared to be relevant to you. Innovation and creating something new is in our DNA with unique product like Stanyl® and EcoPaXX® and the way we co-create with our customers.
We invited Peter Ros as our keynote speaker on our internal event to elaborate on serendipity. Peter wrote a book called “Warorde” and shared his insights in a very accessible, inspiring, and fun way to make us more aware on how to give serendipity chance. A bit of chaos is never a waste!
It is anyhow important to have very clear in the back of your mind what the challenges are in business and for you personally. Then, with a bit of a feeling of urgency and ingredients like challenging the status quo, doing something new, and connecting the unusual suspects, it becomes more apparent to notice the coincident that changes potential. There was an older couple on our venue that was not part of our group, but did bump into our photo-booth. Probably, they forgot their smart-phone and acted uninhibited holding each other tight and making a selfie with our photo-booth to capture their special moment of being together!
Happy little accidents - It must be serendipity!"
"Working with Renate has been a wonderful experience and continues to impress upon me the seemingly limitless capabilities she contains. With an open mind and heart it is a pleasure to be able to converse and discuss all potential avenues of strategy and action. The decisiveness, determination, drive and aptitude are ever present and I am truly looking forward to continuing our relationship as it unfolds to greater and greater opportunities."
“The Leadership Game has taken my Team of coaches, speakers, trainers and professionals to a whole new level of communication. Just one of Renate’s creative pieces. Her insight and results have singled her out as a “go to” in the fields of communication and positioning training”.
"Renate is a successful entrepreneur, creative, goal oriented and with a warm heart. She and her business partner has taken a great idea and turned it into a global successful business changing the lives of young people all over the world. She is a global thinker with a "can do" attitude. To work with Renate is a true pleasure."
“Everyone very much appreciated Renate’s presentation. She has a pleasant appearance, and is very friendly and professional. Her presentation was an excellent starting point for our International Sales Meeting, in which the serious tone alternated with a healthy dose of humor and interaction, in a surprising and humorous way. In doing so, she sensed exactly what we needed for the warm up and was able to keep the attention of the group in a pleasant manner.”
"Renate is a joy to work with. She is very dedicated to the cause of making the perfect marketing plan and creating thourough advice for her clients. Her briefings are clear and perspicuous, and as a sparring partner during brainstorm sessions she is quite the original out-of-the-box thinker. I am looking forward to working with her in the future."
“Renate deals with the real world ways to market your business. She opens your eyes to a wealth of ways to grow your business and value your target group. This is what really works.”