Below, please find quotes of people
who express their opinion on having worked with me.
„Martina Violetta is a visionary and an ambassador for a new and better working world.“
Freddy Fischer, Entrepreneur, Founder and Chairman of the Freddy Fischer Foundation, Germany
“Martina Violetta is extremely good in helping/coaching people & managers to face and feel reality about themselves, their teams, their organizations and business as a crucial condition for making the right choices and decisions for themselves and their organizations.
All this is supported by a broad and deep insight, a very respectful, challenging and skillful approach. Presently, I enjoy reading her new book ‘Ich kann so nicht mehr arbeiten!’. It is really good.”
Leon Vliegen, Owner Katena, Belgium
“Martina is quite exceptional in bringing people to understand their own strengths and fears, their dreams and illusions and frame those in an actionable way to go forward. What I always will remember is the brutality of such an honest process, and also the kindness she brings with her to face this brutality and how to transform this into positive energy.”
Johan Kestens, Partner A.T. Kearney
I liked to work with Martina as a sparing partner and as a coach. She has lived the experience of leading a team in a business environment, on different occasions. She knows what she speaks about, she understands the pressure, the emotions and the thoughts leaders may have in many circumstances. She is tough and critical, does not accept excuses but is comforting and guiding at the same time. Her new book “Ich kann so nicht mehr arbeiten!” provides me with energy.”
Mimi Lamote, Vice President at GrandVision
„Martina Violetta is a gentle people-reader. She senses the real being inside of you with the fine trait to never rate or judge.“
Christian Hütt, Entrepreneur, Member of the Executive Committee of Athene Foundation, Germany
“Having Martina on board as an external Integration Coach was a major success factor in the merger of two fairly large and culturally diverse transnational corporations. She was quickly accepted as an “honest broker” by staff and management alike.
Her intuitive insight into people, her humanity and empathy, combined with her own management experience and legal understanding, enabled her to promote constructive solutions. Her honesty and transparency ensured the broad acceptance of her proposals.”
Martin G. Hess, former EVP and Member of the Executive Committee of Umicore NV
“Martina makes sure that there are sound human and social foundation at a company on which the economical performance can be built.”
Erik Brijs, Head of Group Accounting & Control at Umicore NV
“I’ve worked with Martina in an intensive culture change management program, where she was the consultant and I was the coordinator of the program. As she is a very experienced consultant in that matter, she was chosen as our guide. What I really appreciated was, that she did not only guided me from a content point of view but she went beyond her assignment and was a real coach/mentor to me.
She was one of the first people to make me realize that I had to listen to the signals of my body and had to face the fact that I had to take care of myself! She was very honest and open to me.
I remember Martina as somebody who is result driven combined with a lot of care and respect for the well being of the people she is working with.”
Lieve Van kerckhoven, HR Manager at IVAGO/ECOV
“Martina inspires to exceed with ease and pleasure. She masters the art of making virtually limiting borderlines conscious, transparent and hence tangible.”
Manfred Stadlbauer, Founder Techmeter GmbH, Austria
„Martina is a very professional coach who is at her strenght in coaching top executives and managers who are part of restructuring of organizations or divisions, mergers and acquisitions and who need support in how to handle those changes from a human perspective.”
Ludo Wijckmans, EMEA Industry Lead for Communications and Media at Microsoft Corporation
“Martina has an extreme skill in being straightforward, clear and honest with a deep and solid willingness to make a better world. She is not afraid of anything. She is filled with love.”
Göran Hydbom, CEO and Senior Adviser of Modern Management Network AB, Sweden
“Martina’s strength is that she builds on her good business understanding and leadership concepts to provide senior leaders with clear straightforward feedback and practical advice. Her non-nonsense style, combined with high sensitivity, offers her audience an opportunity to reach a deeper personal leadership level”.
Jaap de Vries, Corp. HR Director, Royal Friesland / Campina
“Martina has the ability to make you look at things differently and help put things in a much broader context to really understand what is important for you and the business. Martina is a pleasure to work with. She is fun to be around, has a high level of professionalism to get to the core quickly of any organisational issues you may be dealing with and provides you with tools to improve it’s overall capability and effectiveness.”
Paul Turner, Vice President Sales Polyolefins Europe at LyondellBasell
“Martina is a no nonsense professional who has great insights into how people work and interact. She provides practical and personalized advice.“
Bruno Holthof, CEO of ZNA, Belgium
Martina is an enthusiastic person who is not afraid to challenge established senior managers to look at their organisations in a refreshing way.
John van Put, Member of the Executive Board, H.C. Starck GmbH, Germany
What makes Martina special is her ability to communicate straightforward but in an empathic and respectful way, confronting the individual with the core of his problem an still make it a very positive experience!”
Leo Depestele, C&B Business Partner EMEA at Rockwell Automation
“While having a very open and straightforward approach, Martina is also highly sensitive to the emotions and aspirations of her interlocutors. This combination of a no nonsense approach and the capacity to listen makes her the ideal person to act as an intermediary in bringing closer people with different cultures and objectives in a conflict situation. Through a balanced approach and practical solutions, she quickly becomes the trusted partner to all parties involved.”
Bernard Orban, Finance Manager Europe BU Specialty Powders at A. Schulman
“Martina was SVP of Hapag-Lloyd in Antwerp when I worked there as a Systems-Coordinator and Trainer. She earned herself a strong reputation as a people manager and a lot of respect from many co-workers. To me, Martina was, and still is, a great example and a coach, especially with respect to people management, concern and trust, which she brought into balance even during a major reorganization. Martina is a very good listener, not only listening to your words, but also listening to the unspoken message of your heart, making you feel really heard, important and understood. This resulted in blind trust into one another and confidence in the way ahead. I still miss her as a leader in our company!”
Philippe Smet, Director Customer Service Hapag-Lloyd Chile