Frans Gosses

Executive coach and management consultant

Frans Gosses studied Dutch law at Leiden University. After his studies, he worked in international aid for three years as a Dutch volunteer.

Since then, Frans Gosses has been active in human resources management. For the first 11 years, he worked for the Royal Shell Group as HR manager, for which he was stationed in Africa for several years. In 1986, he switched to executive search, establishing himself as a prominent figure in this field. Amongst others, he worked as managing partner of ATKearney Executive Search and later fulfilled this role with Dutch firm Maes & Lunau.

Since 2005, he has been active as executive coach. In addition to a great number of 1-to-1 coaching projects, he has done a number of assignments to improve collaboration within and amongst teams in the executive levels of organizations.

Frans is part of the ‘Associatie van Business Coaches’ (Association of Business Coaches). Furthermore, he is coordinator for the Pum operations in Morocco. He was an active member of the VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) scouting commission for six years.

Over the years, he completed a great many assignments for numerous clients in the Netherlands and abroad. These former clients include: Walt Disney, Phillip Morris, Shell, Billiton, ING, Heineken, EY, Deloitte and Rabobank.