Joss Janssens
I help international professionals reclaim their 'leadership horsepower' — for sustainable productivity with less stress.
Core values in my training and coaching work:
Authenticity – Leadership starts with yourself. Inner clarity about what you feel, think, and need is the foundation for effective and credible action on the outside.
Impact – Sustainable impact — felt and seen by yourself and others — doesn’t come from pushing harder. Real power lies in conscious presence.
Empowerment – Stepping in your power means taking ownership of your choices and direction, and claiming the space you need to achieve your goals — consciously, independently, and with natural authority.
You won't hear me deny that this can be challenging at times. Yet in working with horses, you’ll find the keys to facing that challenge in a way that truly fits you.
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Who is Joss?
Since 2011, I have worked as a trainer and coach with leaders and teams in the corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors who want to consciously learn from what is going well and why, and who are also willing to face their tensions and growth opportunities.
Through the mirror of horses’ natural responses, and through insights into emotional and social intelligence drawn from herd behaviour, I found the key to sustainable change and effective leadership myself.
With a background in journalism and years of experience as an international team and process leader at organisations including Greenpeace, I know what it takes to function in complex, demanding environments. I understand the pressure of responsibility, results-driven work, and deadlines; the fine line between productivity and conflict; and the challenge of finding balance between work and relaxation.
Alongside my work as a trainer and coach for leaders and teams, I have led the Dutch branch of the training programme I completed myself since 2018: the Eponaquest certification training for therapists, coaches and equine professionals. As a leader, trainer, and coach, this means I take my own medicine every day.
Partners
As independent professionals, we work together on larger training projects and we strengthen each other in serving our areas of expertise.
In offering our trainings we collaborate with equine centers in the Netherlands (near Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ede, Apeldoorn, Grave and Almkerk), Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the US and the UK.
Marina Parris
Lives in Switzerland. She has a background in corporate and corporate change management and has worked in the US, Switzerland and France in the field of quality, training and purchasing. In 2011 she became a certified Eponaquest coach, with over 17 years of experience in equine and leadership development. Marina has wild horses in their natural habitat and continues to study with Linda Kohanov. She is also a published author and writes about leadership and Horse-human relations in various publications.
Jan de Vries
With a background in business administration and psychology, he combines
Jan's lifelong passion for horses with his expertise in leadership, teamwork and organizational development. In 2011 he obtained his certification in systemic equine-assisted coaching, later extended to trauma therapy. He provides experiential training programs and helps individuals and teams to sustainable growth.
Babs Jasper
Expertise: Leadership in healthcare, and ptsd guidance
Master in Biology and Policy and Organization, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Prince 2
project manager, Trainer-coach Equine Facilitated Learning. Babs has been working for years
experience as a consultant and manager. She offers leadership training to professional
teams and brings experiential horse work into therapy programs for military
veterans to help them overcome PTSD. She is also a co-facilitator in the
Dutch Eponaquest certification training.
Esther van Oorspronk
Master in Human Movement Sciences and Business Administration,
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. After working as a business consultant for several years, Esther started her own company as a trainer-coach equine facilitated learning. They focuses on helping clients to harness the power of their analytical skills by using the social and emotional intelligence of horses with the Master Herder model.
Irene Robben
Master in International Law and Global Governance, specializing in Human Rights.
In addition to her job as a policy advisor for local government, Irene started a few years ago she started her own company in horse-assisted learning. She coaches individuals and groups to set healthy boundaries and thus find balance between private and business relationships.
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Rixta de Bode
Bachelor in Education, Human Behavior and Management.
Rixta has 25 years of professional work experience in education, including as director of a school, and is trained in Natural Horsemanship. It offers experiential learning with horses to (school) leaders and their teams to teach them in dealing with the challenges of their profession by supporting their social and improve emotional intelligence.
The horsepower behind EQMPower!
These three horses have been my long time personal "team mates". In addition to them, I work with several great coach horses at different locations - such as Queenie, the pony in the photo on top, at Campus Almkerk, NL.
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Billie (pocket sized top coach)
NEVER underestimate Shetland ponies like Billy. In the wild, they survive in places where larger horses can't. They can pull up to three times their body weight of 150–200 kg. Thanks to their small size and incredible stamina, they were indispensable in mining for centuries. The "speed gene" found in English Thoroughbreds can be traced back to a Shetland pony that lived 300 years ago.So the question isn’t whether the Billies of this world make good coaches... It’s whether you can keep up!
'Alfayiz' (='winner') Krystl Gucci
Gucci is a 24-year-old European Arabian studbook champion with a closet full of trophies. He is too temperamental to serve as coaching horse in my trainings. All the same, he is an important member of my team, because he is MY most important leadership trainer. His dressage experience lifts my equestrian skills to a higher level. His uncompromising "stallion humor" requires equal doses of unwavering firmness and attuned subtlety from me as his handler.
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Raya (+2025 - inspiring 'medicine horse')
Raya was my mare and my most important teacher in this work. The name Raya means different things in various languages: it is a Hebrew word for "Friend", it means "Figurehead" in Arabic, "Royal" in Indonesian, "Grand" in Russian and "Sunbeam" in Spanish. For the past 15 years in my practice - right up until it was her time to join the "Great Horse Herd in the Sky" - Raya was all this, for me and the many clients who have worked with her.
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