Our people are the reason the learning lands.

We combine people who know automotive with people who know how learning works. Often, they are the same person: automotive specialists, trainers, learning designers, project leads, technical experts, recruitment specialists, coordinators and facilitators.

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A company is only as good as the people in the room. So we build the team first.

Nothing we sell exists without the people who deliver it. So we build the team first: hire for character and curiosity, teach the didactics, then hand over real ownership. One deliberate hire at a time.

Michael Gastmans
We wanted to create a place where everyone's individual traits actually matter. Where you're trusted to own your work, challenge the obvious and learn how to fail correctly as well. Our ethical goal in life is to build a place that unlocks everyone's true potential, preferably for those who think differently. We are guides along the way.
Michael Gastmans · Partner & COO
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Three crafts, deliberately kept in one house.

Most training organizations are strong in one dimension. They have technical people who know the product, or learning people who know pedagogy, or operations people who can move a rollout across fifteen markets. IAS is built on the assumption that a programme fails at the seams between those three.

So we hire for all three and keep them in the same conversations. A technical trainer sits with a learning designer while the material is still a draft. A coordinator flags a market constraint before it becomes a redesign. The engineer who answers dealer support calls feeds the questions back into the next revision of the course.

It also means we hire senior by default (senior mindset, not in terms of age/experience). Almost everyone here has stood in front of a room, or run a workshop bay, or carried responsibility for a network. That experience is what allows us to challenge a brief instead of simply executing it.

Alexander Swannet
Alexander Swannet
Partner & CEO
Michael Gastmans
Michael Gastmans
Partner & COO
Geneviève Van Den Hende
Geneviève Van Den Hende
Business Operations Lead
Tasha Hammenecker
Tasha Hammenecker
Training Operations Lead
EV
Els Van den Wyngaert
People Lead
Tine Simkens
Tine Simkens
Customer Success Lead

The people who keep programmes, facilities and project delivery running on time, within budgets and according to specifications.

Gino Van der Auwera
Gino Van der Auwera
Programme Manager Technical Certification
Tine Simkens
Tine Simkens
Coordinator Sales & Product Training
Nils Klinkenborg
Nils Klinkenborg
Coordinator Technical Training
Dieter Raes
Dieter Raes
Coordinator Technical Training
DJ
David Janssen
Coordinator Technical Training
Thierry Bourgeois
Thierry Bourgeois
Facility Officer
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Embedded inside OEM academies, importer networks and dedicated brand programmes.

Mohamed Amrani
Mohamed Amrani
Senior L&D Strategist. Co-Founder of IAS in 2012.
Raf Dekeersmaeker
Raf Dekeersmaeker
Technical Support Engineer
Simon Heylens
Simon Heylens
Technical Trainer
Mathias Cools
Mathias Cools
Technical Trainer
Xander Mijten
Xander Mijten
Technical Trainer
Kevin Maquet
Kevin Maquet
Technical Trainer
Luc Fernandez
Luc Fernandez
Technical Trainer
Jasper Raes
Jasper Raes
Technical Trainer
Hannes Van Herreweghe
Hannes Van Herreweghe
Sales & Product Trainer
Alexander Swaelens
Alexander Swaelens
Sales & Product Trainer
Christophe De Cleene
Christophe De Cleene
Soft-Skills Trainer
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