Natasha is a seasoned international trainer and consultant in the area of cross cultural management, strategic planning and business development, teambuilding and coaching and has spent over 20 years involved in curriculum design and instruction. Natasha is Dutch Caribbean born in Aruba with Namibian Permanent Residence.
She started her career in the Netherlands at Hollandse Signaalapparaten (formerly Thomson CSF and today known as Thales) where, from 1996-98, she was primarily responsible for coordinating a program establishing the European Policy for Training & Development within six European subsidiaries of the company. At that time, she was also acting training manager for the business and administration courses, supporting line managers in setting up their yearly training plans. In September 1998 she joined KPMG where she worked as a multimedia consultant within eWorkforce. During this period she developed interactive computer-based training products for European clients. Natasha joined Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (then part of KPMG) in 2000 as an intercultural management consultant and trainer working for such clients as: ABN AMRO, Dow Chemical, Stockholm School of Economics, Kongsberg, MTN, Wolters Kluwer, Andersen, Suez Ondeo, M-Real, Exxon Mobile, CSM and United Telecommunication Services (Curacao). She returned to KPMG Netherlands for 2 years as a Senior Business Consultant and Training Manager in 2004 before moving to Lesotho with her family. In 2013 she became the co-founding partner of the franchise FranklinCovey Namibia.
Natasha currently lives in Namibia, where she founded Grow Training & Advisory Services CC in 2006 to present, with the sole purpose of empowering Namibians and the (business) community to achieve their strategic goals and ambitions, through providing primarily HRD, Programme Management and Organization Development services. Her clients are both smaller local companies as well as larger governmental and corporate organizations such as, the US Embassy State Department, Department of Energy in Lesotho, Bank of Namibia, UNICEF, WHO, UNAIDS, and Old Mutual Property and Investment Group.