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What we do, why we wrote the Stand Up to Stand Out book and why a big healthy company like Carglass believed in us from the start, is explained in this recent interview. A TV appearance that shines some light on who Stand Up Company is and what drives Natalie and Marnick to do what they do.

When Belron’s European Distribution Center (Carglass) asked us to write the storyline for their new process video, Natalie and I were honored and very pleased to hear that the briefing went as follows: Show what we do here in Bilzen, but don’t make it just another process video. Make it an actual story that triggers emotion. No actors can be used. Our people are the stars of our company, so they will be the stars in this video.

Great news! Clients were requesting it and we at Stand Up Company made sure we could offer you the possibility of using the KMO portefeuille. We are now proud to say that we are officially a registered supplier of the KMO portefeuille in the discipline of 'training & education'.

A lot of companies make the occasional corporate video, but besides the actual production of the movie, two challenges always arise. Number one: writing a good story, that is informing and entertaining, so it touches people's emotions and actually gets watched. Number two

What if after a trainride from Brussels straight to Breda you step outside of the station and all of a sudden you see a big crowd with music and banners… an exciting day full of surprises that was Marnick’s experience at the end of June.

I see this wolfpack explanation of leadership in my Linkedin feed everyday and even though it's an internet hoax, it still represents an easy way to explain the way a lot of companies are currently being run and why they are bleeding talent.

"Alrighty then... HR team what's the status on implementing the new corporate culture?" - Well, desktop wallpapers with our new non-unique values are fixed on people's computers, we have our mission printed on the reception desk, handed out a code of conduct with a great Shutterstock image of people from different nationalities on the cover and....we ordered pizza's. - "Ok team, I think we are pretty much done here..."

You have the feeling your lungs have packed their bags and moved into your throat. Air is becoming a luxury. Your mouth is dryer than a desert that just ate a whole box of rusk. You're sweating. You are producing more words per second than Gary Vaynerchuk on speed. If this sounds familiar, it can only mean one thing..., you are giving a presentation and are nervous as hell.

Money. No matter what the guru's or life coaches say, money is your first concern when starting your own business. You want it, you need it and you don't have it :) In the academic world, professors call this, a 'problem'. I come from an awesome lifestyle and just finished my first week as a full independent worker. Boy did I get confronted with reality...

Belgians are beer drinking, chocolate eating, too down to earth for there own good, compromisers. That live next to Dutch trailer pulling, cheap, orange, cheese eating, tulip lovers :) Or at least that is what the stereotypes say ;) I'm a Belgian and have spend the last two years traveling between Brussels and Amsterdam. The two questions I get the most is: "How long did you drive?" and "Do you see a difference between Belgian and Dutch people?"