MindMeeting designs programmes for successful international meetings.

Meeting Design is the art of matching the form or format of a meeting to its aims. We do for meetings what industrial designers do for products.
MindMeeting was co-founded in 2001 and specialises in the design of effective programmes for international meetings: conferences, conventions, seminars, workshops, etc. The innovative formats MindMeeting designs have gained increasing attention because of their added value for strategy issues in organisations.

Mike van der Vijver

Consultant, trainer and facilitator, working with people and processes

Mike has almost 25 years’ experience in the meeting industry, initially as conference interpreter and subsequently as Meeting Designer through Mindmeeting, the company he co-founded. In addition, he is an executive consultant and coach on national and organisational culture. Mike regularly provides content at international conferences. Furthermore, Mike was also a former member of the board of the Italian Chapter of MPI, a former member of Itim, the Institute for Training in Intercultural Management and former Board member of Congrestolkensecretariaat (Conference Interpreters) of Amsterdam. He lives both in Italy and the Netherlands.

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Eric de Groot

One of the first Meeting Designers

His pioneering work started in 1992; now he caters to the national (Dutch) market in De Wet van Thomas and internationally in MindMeeting. Thanks to his background in drama he takes a broad, human perspective to meetings and meeting processes. Eric regularly conducts workshops and learning sessions for professionals in the meeting industry as well as in other educational contexts. Eric was also a former member of the MPI task force: “The Future of Meetings”. He lives in the Netherlands.

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