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About Olifant Coaching

Many perspectives,
one honest room.

Olifant began with a simple belief: the conversations that matter most are easier to have together than alone.

We are coaches, HR professionals, and facilitators from different cultures and disciplines, brought together by one purpose.

Our story Meet the people
An elephant and a person building a stone bridge together, side by side

We build the bridge together.

Three colleagues at Olifant Coaching opening a door to let the elephant walk out into the open
Built on cooperation

We work better when
we work together.

Olifant is not one voice — it is a partnership. Olifant Coaching develops people, and Olifant Team brings experienced HR expertise into organizations. Two complementary strengths, one shared standard.

Behind both sits a network of coaches and professionals who choose to collaborate rather than compete. We share what we learn, we challenge each other's thinking, and we put the client's question ahead of any individual ego.

That is how the best conversations happen: not from one expert with all the answers, but from people willing to think out loud, together.

Different perspectives

Difference is where the work gets good.

Our team spans cultures, languages, and ways of seeing. We treat that range not as something to manage, but as our greatest source of insight.

A multicultural table

We come from different countries and backgrounds. That mix lets us recognize patterns others miss and meet every organization where it actually is.

Many disciplines

Coaching, HR leadership, psychology, facilitation. We deliberately combine fields, because real challenges rarely sit inside a single one.

One shared purpose

However different we are, we point the same direction: helping people name what matters and have the conversation that moves them forward.

Designed in-house

We build our own tools.

We use the science that works — like the validated Big Five for personality — but where we found nothing deep enough, we built it ourselves. Our Behavioural Patterns assessment is one of those tools: developed in-house to surface the unconscious habits that personality tests leave untouched.

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Built from real rooms

It grew out of years of coaching — the patterns we kept meeting in leaders and teams, named and made usable.

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Beneath personality

People-pleasing, perfectionism, control, conflict avoidance — the success strategies that quietly become pitfalls under pressure.

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Ours to refine

Because we own it, we keep sharpening it — against every new conversation, rather than a fixed licence.

The deepest insight rarely comes off a shelf.

What we stand for

The principles we share.

Honesty, kindly

We say the true thing, with enough care that people can actually hear it.

Curiosity first

We ask before we assume. Every team and culture has its own logic.

Better together

We pool our perspectives instead of protecting our turf.

Lasting change

We measure ourselves by what holds after we leave the room.

The people

Different people, working as one.

An international team of coaches and HR professionals who choose to do this work together.

Peter Ligtelijn

Peter Ligtelijn

Founder & Team Coach

Executive & Team Coach · Leadership & Communication

Peter founded Olifant on a simple conviction: sustainable change starts with self-awareness. For more than fifteen years he has coached executives, teams, and professionals to name the elephant in the room — and have the conversation that moves them forward. He pairs deep reflection with practical, evidence-informed methods people can use the next morning.

Arzu Çataklı

Arzu Çataklı

Founder & HR Partner

Organizational Development · Change & Leadership

Arzu works at the intersection of organizational development and leadership, where real change begins with people. She advises on change management, HR strategy, and leadership development — creating both direction and room to move, so that growth holds up in daily practice. Her strength is seeing potential in people, teams, and initiatives, and connecting it into results that last.

Vincent van der Meijden

Vincent van der Meijden

Founder & Managing Director

Strategy · Leadership & Organizational Growth

Vincent shapes strategy, untangles the challenges nobody else wants to name, and keeps Olifant ahead of where our clients are heading. He holds the long view: that growth only counts when it is sustainable, and that an organization moves at the speed of its leadership.

For coaches & trainers

Coach where the work is real.

Join a curated network of experienced coaches and trainers, and get matched to organizations whose challenges fit your practice.

  • Engagements matched to your specialism and style
  • Set your own availability and fee
  • Backed by the wider Olifant HR network
  • Peer intervision and supervision with fellow coaches

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Share your details and CV. We’ll be in touch when an engagement fits.

Your details stay private and are only used to match you to relevant engagements.

An elephant walking through an open door, toward the light

Let’s think this through together.

Bring us your question and your context. We’ll bring a few perspectives — and the honesty to name what really matters.

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