Herman graduated at the Utrecht School of Performing Arts in 2008.
After he worked a lot as an actor for film, television, theatre and radio he is specialised in teaching his public speaking class. He helped hundreds of people to get rid of their public speaking anxiety and motivated over a thousand people to improve their public speaking skills.
His head office is bases in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Every week he gives his public speaking training group course for individuals. He works as a permanent public speaking in-company trainer and coach for the Dutch Marines, Department of Neurology at the Amsterdam Academic Hospital and many more companies. Since 2017 he gives his group training for individuals in New York City at the Magnet Theater Center.
Herman’s life goal is to help people as quick and effective to get rid of their speaking anxiety and he does this for many years with great success.
Moving in the group is one of our good team building games to improve group teamwork. You can slowly build up the exercise and start with just one person in the team continuously having to walk (and have his walking taking over when another participant stands still). Starting easy will...
Circles is one of the best team building games to create mutual understanding among the participants surrounding various activities. One may find it very uncomfortable to go rock climbing while the other see it as a pastime activity. This very same person can however be afraid to speak in front...
Contact is on of our warm up games wherein the team can honestly communicate what they think off each other or share what mood they have currently. In ‘touch’ you can build up the exercise according to your own preference. You can start easily just by letting the team make...
The thought scene is one of our fun team building games to let communication flow consciously. As was evident in the video, expressing thoughts in a conversation can give it a complete twist, for better or worse. Sometimes speaking your thoughts can have a desired effect whereas other times it...
This is one of our effective communication exercises in which learns about communication. In the exercise the team makes pairs of three. Every participant in the pair gets a unique role. There is the observer, the observed and a person that checks if the exercise is done correctly. The observer...
‘Werewolves’ is one of our games for groups. In the video ‘how to play werewolves’ we explain how the game werewolves can be played. It is a really fun exercising in which the team tries to bluff and read each other. The werewolves pretend to be villagers all the the...
This is one of our games for teambuilding in which the goal is for the participants is to pitch someone else from the group. The group members form pairs and acquaint themselves with each other. After having mingled for a while the team members will sell each other as if...
In this trust game participants let themselves fall backwards while someone else will catch them. In this exercise trust between the participants is build in a playful manner. This exercise is a good pick to warm up a group at the start of a day or in a group where...
This is one of our games to get to know people in which the trainer throws a pillow in the audience and asks a couple of questions. For example: “Wat is your name?” or “Where do you come from?” These questions are suitable to ask in a group in which...
Stop start continue is on of our team exercises for small groups in which conflicts within the team will be discussed in a different way. In the exercise the team will discover what kind of behaviour they would like to stop, start and continue. After this first step, the team...
The team building game “Form a group with…” works best with bigger groups with at least ten participants. The trainer names a topic and the team will form groups. For example: form groups based on what style of humour you like. Now it’s the goal to form groups as quickly...
