She has a passion for people and wants to help anybody who's motivated and talented to achieve their dreams. The projects she helped create and grow so far testify to that:

• Boers & Peusens: making changes in your (professional or private) life is so much easier with a good mentor/coach by your side - Karen and Dirk are passionate about helping others to achieve their dreams!
• BeCode: the coding school allowing talents to reskill into web developer and other highly sought-after IT professions, whatever their background may be with 1.000+ lives touched already within 3 years!
• BeCentral: the digital campus in the heart of Brussels where 150.000+ people have been inspired and trained into a more digital economy & society thanks to 50+ fantastic resident projects and many more partners.
• Startups.be: the national startup community that has united 2.500 startups around a single mission - leading Belgium into the digital age!
• European Startup Network: uniting 24 national startup communities we created more stopping power for startups scaling across European borders.