Marc Wesselink

Director

Marc is a trusted advisor, consultant, coach and trainer. He is the author (with Ronald Paul) of the Handbook on Strategic Stakeholder Engagement (Handboek Strategisch Omgevingsmanagement). Marc is troubled by the fact that a lot of societal gains are lost as a result of unprofessional stakeholder management.

Hans van Zijst

Senior Consultant

Hans is one of the most experienced Strategic Stakeholder Engagement experts in the Netherlands. He feels particularly at home in the public sector. Hans combines substantive knowledge in the field of the environment, nature, water, infrastructure, spatial planning, and sustainability with a drive for results, managerial sensitivity, and strong communication skills.

Thijs Kraassenberg

Director

On behalf of organizations in the public and private sector, Thijs works on assignments in which collaboration and trust between different parties and stakeholders is of vital importance but suffers from the pressures of time, strained relationships, limited financial resources or interests that are strongly opposed.

Stefan Szepesi

Director

Stefan Szepesi is a negotiation expert and former diplomat for the EU and the UN. He has a keen interest in domestic and international multi-party negotiations on complex policy issues, especially in the fields of climate, commerce (trade) and conflict.

Tom den Boer

Associate Partner

Tom is a senior SSE Consultant with more than 25 years of experience in social and environmental policy issues, negotiations with many stakeholders, and spatial planning processes. He supports directors, board members, and executives in their journey towards sustainable solutions.

Annelies Claessens

Senior Consultant

Over the past 20 years, she has worked in conflict areas and her home country the Netherlands, on finding creative and sustainable solutions to social challenges. As Senior Advisor and Mediation Lead, she is involved in change processes, partnerships and disputes between government, citizens and the business community.

Janneke Eberson

Office manager

Janneke joined the WesselinkVanZijst team very soon after its foundation. In her capacity as Office Manager, she organizes all office logistics and oversees the secretariat. Janneke manages Marc Wesselink's diary.

Linda Epping

Backoffice Employee SSE Academy

Linda joined our team in 2020. She is in charge of the logistics of in-company training courses provided by the SSE Academy (SOM Academie) and the Negotiation & Public Service network. Linda also coordinates our newsletter and supports other colleagues.

Nathalie de Groot

Backoffice Employee SSE Academy

Nathalie has been working at WesselinkVanZijst since October 2023 as Back Office Employee. Together with her colleague Linda she coordinates the in company trainings.

Bas Liebeek

Senior Consultant

Bas advises and assists organizations in resolving strategic issues involving numerous stakeholders. Combining his background in business administration with experience in various international sectors and a natural interest in stakeholder engagement he brings a lot of knowledge to the table.

Jeroen Medema

Consultant

Jeroen joined WesselinkVanZijst as an SSE Consultant in 2015. In addition to his consultancy work, he also works as an independent process supervisor and as a trainer. Jeroen specializes in Joint Fact Finding and is a published author on this topic.

Chantal Polhout

Administrative Assistant

Chantal mainly worked in the hospitality sector until her appointment at WesselinkVanZijst. Mid-2019, she decided to swap the dynamics of facilitating and hosting business meetings, weddings, parties and their administrative processing for her position in our team.

Mart Scheepers

Consultant

After a three-year stint in Myanmar, Mart Scheepers returned to his position of SSE Consultant and trainer in the summer of 2020. Mart is analytically strong, easily combines practice and theory and is always focused on making progress.

Robin Schram

Consultant

Robin works as a trainer and SSE Consultant. Thanks to his academic background and analytical skills, he is excellent at structuring complex issues and presenting them in a comprehensible manner.

Fenneke van der Vegte

Senior Consultant

Fenneke feels at home in many different environments and roles. Trained as an ecologist, she has a keen eye for connections and relationships between parties and matters. She not only combines that knowledge in projects in the physical environment, but has also used it in the social domain.

Elianne in het Veld

Associate Partner

Elianne combines the methods of process management and strategic stakeholder engagement with the substantive aspects of assignments in order to unblock stalled initiatives. She organizes the connection of stakeholders to the task, the commitment of the parties involved to the outcome of the process and the administrative decision-making.

Wendy Versteeg

Senior Consultant

For Wendy it is important that all parties learn to think in terms of interests rather than positions in order to achieve sustainable outcomes. As an international mediator, trainer and strategic environmental manager, Wendy uses her knowledge, skills and experience to guide parties to jointly find solutions to their issues and conflicts.

Amber Visch

Consultant

Amber started at WesselinkVanZijst in November 2023. Coming from the master's degree in Conflict Resolution and Governance, she is an ambitious analyzer of complex social issues, knowlegde of which she aims to transform into practice through facilitating and building relationships.

Eric van Vliet

Associate Partner

Eric is a senior advisor on Strategic Stakeholder Engagement, with extensive management and consultancy experience in the environment, energy and mobility field. He has a great political-administrative sensitivity and is genuinely interested in the interests of parties in policy tasks, change trajectories and negotiations.

Jan-Pieter van de Weerd

Consultant

Jan-Pieter started at WesselinkVanZijst in May 2022. Based on his background, he approaches and analyzes complex (social) tasks in a multidisciplinary manner. He uses his knowledge and work experience to (further) drive positive change within organizations and ultimately society at large.

Zita van Aggelen

Associate Partner

Zita has extensive experience with Strategic Stakeholder Engagement in the energy sector: from participation in the wind turbine development in her hometown and providing advice on stakeholder approaches at Regional Energy Strategies (RES), to advising municipalities and provinces on the development and implementation of the energy transition.