Location: Brussels, Belgium

Originally from the Netherlands, Gaston has work experience in over 40 countries across a diverse range of industries  including multinationals and rapidly growing start-ups. He is one of the Partners at the Asian Leadership institute, Asia’s longest established executive coaching company. He runs the Start-up/ Venture-Capital Practice and founded several companies himself.

Besides having coached senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, he is primarily active in the start-up ecosystem. He has coached 120+ founders of VC-backed start-ups including 20+ founders of unicorns with an emphasis on India, South-East Asian, and the Middle East. Gaston also coached (Managing) Partners at more than a dozen VC/ PE/ Asset-Management firms.

Gaston holds a double master’s degrees in International Business and Advanced Development Studies. He is an advocate for conscious capitalism and an active entrepreneur. In 2005 Gaston started studying mindfulness (Zen & Vipassana) alongside his work. His studies remain central to his life and are a key aspect of his coaching approach. Gaston moved to Asia in 2008 and returned in 2020 back to Europe where he lives with his wife and two sons in Brussels.His diverse work experience allows him to listen deeply without judgment and to propose valuable new perspectives, especially to fast-growing companies. He has a deep and demonstrated commitment to helping groups discover and consciously shift their own limiting patterns or team dysfunctions. His goal is to have executives and teams ‘reinvent themselves’ regularly in order to provide the best possible match with what an evolving organisation needs. Besides individual work, he facilitates executive team journeys to enable a team to get to next levels of trust, accountability and performance. 

His diverse work experience allows him to listen deeply without judgment and to propose valuable new perspectives, especially to fast-growing companies. He has a deep and demonstrated commitment to helping groups discover and consciously shift their own limiting patterns or team dysfunctions. His goal is to have executives and teams ‘reinvent themselves’ regularly in order to provide the best possible match with what an evolving organisation needs. Besides individual work, he facilitates executive team journeys to enable a team to get to next levels of trust, accountability and performance.

Gaston is fluent in Dutch, English, French and understands German. Passionate about extreme sports including rock climbing, alpinism, free diving, slacklining, and having trekked the 5 months Great Himalaya Trail, he knows how to bring clients to their growth edge. He has gone through many silent meditation retreats to deeply understand how the mind works, starting with himself.