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“Baukje has an impressive background and experience in the international arena”

I wish to strongly recommend Baukje as an outstanding individual in the area of entrepreneurial marketing and business development. Baukje has an impressive background and experience in the international arena including her time spent working in Africa.

I have worked closely with Baukje during the development of programs in dairy development in emerging markets and have been impressed with her quick learning about new areas, her ability to understand new technology concepts and to turn these into quick and clearly understood concepts.

First though is her passion for what she is doing and her enormous heart to help this world become a better place. She believes fervently in what she does and brings to it her wonderful personality. Baukje is a person who immediately puts those with whom she is meeting or interacting at ease, and then combining humor and good questioning she quickly drives to the heart of the matter. She is a pleasure to work with.

Baukje will succeed with flying colors at whatever she chooses to turn her skills and experience to and I know anyone working with her will enjoy all that she brings to the endeavors.

Trevor Tomkins
Founder venture | dairy
Chairman of the board smart | dairy

Source: LinkedIn reference

11/02/2018

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“She deploys a wide range of skills based on years of experience in Africa and the Netherlands”

Based on my collaboration with Baukje during the implementation of the Diaspora volunteer project : maximizing the value of the Kenyan diaspora. A joint project between Kenya Diaspoar Community in the Netherlands, Africa Study Centre Leiden University and VSO Netherlands, I would attest to her qualities and professionalism in handling very complex projects that involve multiple actors across different operational levels and countries

Baukje is an interesting, reliable and valuable person to work with. She is very reflective in apporach to issues, a team player that listens to various perpsectives, creates space for others, and focus on realizing results together with colleagues. She is very focused on the core business of the organisation and project at hand, a quality that ensures that all inputs are aligned to the goals of the project. She deploys a wide range of skills based on years of experience in Africa and the Netherlands. Baukje can handle group dynamics very effectively, by thinking out of the box in order to bringing on board key players to realise their potentials, while undertaking her functions in the most professional way.

Antony Ong’ayo
Post Doc Researcher
Development Studies Erasmus University

Source: LinkedIn reference

14/01/2018

anslem wandega
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“She inspires others because of who she is”

I worked with Baukje when she was our Marketing and Development Advisor at ANPPCAN Uganda Chapter. For the time she was with us, I came to know her as an extraordinary person, deeply committed to the well-being of those who are less fortunate. She is a very good organizer and had an amazing amount of experience in the fields of marketing, branding, communications and resource mobilization both as a team member and as a leader.

She is a talented facilitator and inspires others because of who she is. I am very impressed with her and consider any organization that employs her luck.

Anslem Wandega
Executive Director
ANPPCAN Uganda Chapter

Source: LinkedIn reference

25/02/2014

Joke Zwart
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“Baukje quickly understands complex matters and finds creative solutions”

Baukje prepared a national recruitment campaign for VSO to support the launch of our new application process in December 2013. She also led the revision of the recruitment pages on our website, VSO.nl. In the 2 months that I worked with her, I got to know Baukje as a very professional, committed and reliable team member. With her thorough background in marketing and communications, her personal experience as a VSO volunteer in Uganda and Ethiopia, as well as her calm and persevering nature, she helped us to pull our recruitment approach into a new direction.

Baukje quickly understands complex matters and finds creative solutions. During this project she worked effectively with different colleagues in different teams in VSO Netherlands, as well as VSO’s head office in London, who each had their own objectives and while needing to meet strict deadlines. In doing so, she was able to keep a strong focus on the main objectives that we wanted to reach with our recruitment campaign and website pages, while at the same time aiming for a win win situation for all those involved.

It was a pleasure working with someone who knows what she is talking about and has such a likable personality!

Joke Zwart
Manager Volunteering
VSO Nederland

Source: LinkedIn reference

22/01/2014

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“She mixes clear, relevant information with a good sense of humor”

Baukje assisted me as marketing specialist in a marketing training I facilitate for entrepreneurs. She effortlessly tuned in to the different needs and knowledge levels of the students and made her presentation very lively and interactive.

She combines clear, relevant information with a good sense of humor, down to earth approach and provocative questions. Her way of working was perceived by me as flexible and always aimed at the goals of the training. During preparations she time and again surprised me with sparkling ideas and original angles. I regret that Baukje did not pursue her career in training and miss our collaboration and her contributions.

Peter Schneider
Trainer
WEB organisatie ontwikkeling

Source: LinkedIn reference

20/12/2013

Behailu Shiferaw
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“The foundation she laid helped us restructure the organization”

I have known Baukje Kleinbekman when she worked with me in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We were both working at a local media-based NGO called Ethiopian Volunteer Media Professionals against AIDS – her as marketing and development advisor and also as the only Fundraiser for our organizations, and me as the Chief Editor of the youth newspaper and later as the Acting Director of the organization.

I remember Baukje as a willing, able and energetic colleague to work with. While, using her remarkable fundraising and proposal writing skills, she helped us increase the number of our copies from a mere 11,000 to 50,000 copies amounting to the largest published paper in the country, her role in putting our organization in the map was also outstanding. Because of her hard work and skills, more people and, importantly, more donors came to know our organization. The foundation she laid while she was working with us helped us when we, after she left, restructured the organization as Lambadina Institute Health and Communication assuming similar structure as our counterparts in South Africa – Soul City Institute Health and Development Communication.

Behailu Shiferaw
Chief Editor
Lambadina Youth Newspaper

Source: LinkedIn reference

11/04/2013



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