The Era of Life Long Learning
Experienced Teachers
Our expert teachers, mentors and coaches from all over the world have been selected for their knowledge, experience and wisdom, to guide our 50plus members on their transition into the next phase of their life
Designed for You
All our Masterclasses, Workshops and longer Programs, have been specifically designed by our expert teachers, to guide our 50plus members into the next phase of their lives
Certified Courses
After many of our courses, participants will receive a certificate, that shows they have gone through the program as part of their life-long-learning
Intro
Wize Move Society has developed a series of programs that can all contribute to support our over50 members to move into the next stage of their life. Programs developed by experts especially for this age group that is re-inventing them self later in life. Programs that are all touching on challenges that this generation will have to deal, with a main focus on:
- Healthy Ageing: physically, mentally and emotionally
- Making new friends, building new professional networks and support systems
- Next career steps and creating new or extra income streams
- Awakening that entrepreneurial mindset and starting new businesses
For more information about the upcoming programs, you can go to our shop. Members of the Wize Move Society login the community and pick up your discounts and bonuses!
Meet our Wize Move Influencers
When we embark on our journey of transformation we want you to be in the hands of a selected group of very experienced, knowledgeable and wise teachers, trainers, coaches and mentors: our Wize Move Influencers! People who have been there and done it; who understand where you are in this stage of your life and understand what the world, society and the workplace needs right now!
Mary Jane Roy - Canada / The Netherlands
Company
www.CreatingWaves.nl
Program
Mary Jane will present a series of workshops as a springboard to resilience
Mary Jane Roy is a highly motivated and dedicated corporate advisor, facilitator and presenter. She shares with others, how to develop more effective strategies to thrive in their lives. She started her career as a Military Nursing Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, with a specialty in cardiac diagnostics. After leaving her military and nursing career, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Then, together with her husband, she consulted in the fitness industry.
Since 2008, Mary Jane is certified as: Resiliency Coach | Stress Counselor | Sleep coach | Happiness @ Work Coach | Foundations of Positive Psychology, University of Penn | Science of Well-being, Yale University | Skogsfloating Trainer | NLP Master Practitioner. All add to her mastery of the skills needed to thrive. In 2011, at the age of 55, she started her company Creating Waves
Viola Edward - Venezuela / Cyprus
Company
GRIT Academy
https://gritacademy.co/
Program
Viola will offer her highly successful GRIT - program tailored for the Wize Move Society, which not only takes you on an inner journey but also offers career opportunities in the next phase of your life
Viola Edward is the founder/CEO of GRIT Academy. Multi-awarded personal, corporate advisor and mentor. A Transcultural Psychotherapist, Mentoring, Coaching & Breathwork Trainer. Humanitarian, Social Entrepreneur, Philanthropist. SDG 17: Partnership to achieve the goals.
Sits on the board of several institutions, serves as Ambassador for Human Rights.
CEO Kayana Consulting, Partner/ED of Creative Women Platform, Co-creator of BQ – Breath Intelligence and GRIT Method.
Committed to the creation of a sustainable society since 1993, the author of 2 books, one is Amazon Best Seller and co-author of 11 more.
Since 1993, Viola and her sister Layla Edward are focused on supporting the transformation of thousands of lives on personal improvement and professional development, raising the level of consciousness while supporting sustainability and growth on a global scale. They focus on what is important, long-lasting and meaningful in peoples’ lives.
Eugene Smith - South Africa
Company
Incight OD
Program
On the Wize Move Society, Eugene will bring more knowledge and wisdom on neuro science and self coaching.
Eugene is a seasoned business executive and held directorship roles in Human Resources and Business Development, in several organizations and industries. He specialized in business transformation and the implementation of turnaround and development strategies. His unique talent and passion for developing, mentoring and coaching others resulted in numerous current executives being guided by Eugene’s leadership impact.
In 2011 he moved into private practice and founded Incight Organization Development, an organization development consulting, leadership development and coaching practice.
He has designed and managed business transformation and change projects across the breadth and depth of organisations focusing on the improvement of organizational effectiveness and health.
In addition to facilitating leadership programs, Eugene has coached individual leaders and leadership teams, guiding them to interrogate their thinking, improve their conversational interactions, strengthen their relationships, make informed leadership choices, and put actions in place to rapidly achieve their goals.
Eugene has developed and delivered neuroscience programmes focusing on educating delegates on the new research of the brain and sharing tools and processes to enhance thinking as it applies to leadership, decision-making, innovation and creativity, and collaboration. He is a part-time educator on neuroscience for Duke CE.
Eugene is an accomplished keynote speaker and has delivered papers internationally.
Nicolette Wijkeman - UK / The Netherlands
Company
Siverforce Coaching
https://www.silverforcecoaching.com/
Program
Nicolette will focus on the platform on ways to "Refire, instead of Retire" and on defining a career path in later life
Nicolette Wykeman, the founder of Silverforce Coaching is passionate about supporting people in midlife in (re)finding happiness in their current or future role. What gives them purpose and how can they be their best self after many years? How can they make the transition into their third or perhaps even fourth new career? These are just a few questions she will help to explore with her solution based and creative coaching approach.
An advocate for life-long learning, she completed a Masters in Careers Management in 2017 on the topic of retraining and retaining older workers and since March 2020 being the Ambassador for the Aging2.0 Brighton Chapter in the UK. Aging2.0 is an international network of chapters that strives to accelerate innovation to address the biggest challenges and opportunities in ageing.
Cécile Masson - CH / The Netherlands
Company
www.cecilemasson.com
Program
On the Wize Move Society, Cécile will focus on Leadership, coaching,
Helping leaders fall in love with life again
Cécile is born and bred in Switzerland and lived and worked in various countries. She is an author, a polyglot, and an international leadership master coach with a feminine twist. Cécile loves helping her clients fall in love with life again and to come into their own. Her work weaves somatic based approaches and traditional leadership practices, old wisdom traditions and neuroscience, that help her clients to be stress resistant and wise in their decision making. She invites them to include more than their conditioned knowledge, go beyond biases, question their assumptions, and tap into their own wisdom. She does that in one-on-one coaching and through tailor-made trainings that include, Theory-U, constellation work and multiple brain integration techniques.
Cécile is the happy mother of two adult children, and grandmother of a baby girl. She has a passion for nature and the arts and lives by the quote out of her book Rose letters of love to life:
“The intention is to honor life, not to destroy it. That intention can only come from an open heart, that knows the gratitude, not to say the joy of being alive.”
Deborah Rubin - Canada
Company
https://deborahrubin.ca/
Program
On the Wize Move Society, Deborah can work together with you on the healthy ageing with yoga, breathing and so much more
Deborah is a certified Wellness Educator, Buteyko Breathing Educator, Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Workshop Leader, Speaker and designer of the Clarity Process.
A visionary who embraces the power, beauty and grace within each individual, she created, owned and operated several successful businesses, and has been teaching and coaching online for years. Yoga asanas, pranayama breathing practices, and meditation have been an integral part of Deborah’s lifestyle for over 48 years. Her unique teaching combines the depth of yoga postures, the power of breath, and the silence of meditation to motivate and support her students in exploring their full potential. Deborah’s teaching style is both fun and inspiring.
Based in Victoria, BC, Canada, Deborah works with clients around the world. She is a member of the Women Speakers Association, Wize Moves Society, WWBN (Westshore Women’s Business Network), eWomen Network, Female Wave of Change Canada and a contributor on the Breath Hub App.
Robert Vos - The Netherlands
Company
ROVOS Management
https://www.rovos.nl/
Program
On the Wize Move Society Robert will focus on recreating your Linkedin Profile and expanding your professional network
Robert Vos is the only executive management coach who passionately helps ambitious and competent women to reach the top within their organizations, so that all people, actually our entire society get better: “The Good Life”. He strongly believes in the unbreakable coherence between woman and man, and in diversity, equity, and inclusion for a better and more sustainable world. He is ambitious, energetic, and committed to initiate and develop waves of change, and accomplish sustainable development goals together. Since 1998, Robert runs his own company ROVOS Management, providing training and coaching services to ambitious and competent women, who aspire to top positions. Also, Robert provides training and coaching to our Fifty Plus Generation, including better profiling thru self-insight and self-reflection, searching the right job thru extensive exploitation of one’s own network, and better exploitation of social media like LinkedIn. Robert gained extensive experience in executive search at Haselhoff Group. Prior to working with Haselhoff Group, he held various international management and professional positions at META Group, Uniface International, and IBM World Trade. Before, Robert served as Navy Officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, and sailed around the world as merchant navy officer for Nedlloyd Lines. Robert obtained a master degree in Business Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2019, he received a WinTrade Corporate Award “Because She Matters” for his track record in empowerment of women. In 2021, he published a book (in Dutch): “Fiftyfifty: een stappenplan voor het bevorderen van de doorstroom van vrouwen naar de top” (a roadmap to advancing women to top positions). Robert is married, and has two sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.
Saskia Harkema - South America / The Netherlands
Company
Faces of Change
http://www.facesofchange.online/
Program
Saskia is the teacher in our successful Move in2 the Future program "Time to ReInvent Yourself"
Saskia Harkema is Dutch, but grew up in South-America. She holds a degree in Sociology and Business Administration and a PhD in Innovation Sciences.
She is an international acclaimed expert in innovation and entrepreneurship and also a human rights defender.
She is Founder of Faces of Change, Global Ambassador for Female Wave of Change, World Ambassador Netherlands for World Peace Tracts. She is also an author and writer
Paola Devescovi - Italy
Company
The Bridge, Centre of Transformation
www.thebridgecenter.net
Program
Paola will focus on Human Design, Reiki and will host the monthly Healing Circles
Paola Devescovi is a Certified Transformational and Prosperity Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, Animal Reiki Master Teacher, Breath Yoga Coach.
She is the founder of The Bridge - Center of Transformation, a “holistic center in your pocket”, that offers workshops, consultations and resources combining ancient traditions and science to help people transform their lives and business from the inside out. Paola is also a student of life, people, success, business, money, synchronicity, the ultimate nature of our reality, manifestation and intuition, energy and the mind.