Articles and cooking books

Unlock your creativity:

• Steal like an Artist

• Don't wait to get started

• Write the book you want to read

• Use your Hands

• Side projects and hobbies are important

• The Secret: do good work and share it with people

• Geography is no longer your master

• Be Nice + be Boring

• Creativity is subtraction

Listen this episode of the Blue Lotus Café podcast. We also recorded a IGTV Live "Should you write a cookbook?" and "Should you start a cooking channel?".

Share like an Artist:

• You don't have to be a genius.

• Think process, not product

• Share something small every day

• Open up your cabinet of curiosities

• Tell good stories

• Teach What you know

• Don't turn into human spam

• Learn to take a punch

• Sell out

• Stick around

Listen this episode of the Blue Lotus Café podcast. We also recorded a IGTV Live "Communicate about your Café?".

• Creativity by Contraints

• Bootstrapping

• Sabbatical Project

• KANBAN

• KAIZEN

• Set your Price as a Freelancer
• Food Costing as a Chef

• Why Positive Cash Flow Model?

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• Self-Knowledge, Cultivating Mindsets

• Instructor Mindset

• Teaching & Training

• Write Your Manifesto

• Stoicism

• Essentialism, book

• IKIGAI

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• Plant-Based Speciality Cuisine

• SOUL Plant Food

• Pure & Simple WFPB lifestyle

• Time Restricted Eating

• Fit After 40

• 5-DAYTOX Challenge

• Hydration

• Blue Zones

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

Dream with a Plan. Learn, experiment and apply a KAIZEN approach to visualize, develop your sustainable project.

Objectives: How-to do a Preliminary Study to define your concept, goal and mission, brainstorm on solutions, map-out your project, think of alternate business models, understand key success factors... develop the blue print of your project.... share and communicate your vision... find solutions, experiment and prototype... evaluate the demand, the technical feasibility and the economic viability.

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After a briefing conversation, I will define a personalized project development plan.

Duration: 4-week Training or 3-month to 6-month Coaching

Languages: English or French

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• Outline your Personal Development Plan, visualize and clarify your aspirations, vision and values.
• Map-out your Project and Tactic plan (project backlog, tasks breakdown, exit rules, resources request, minimal viable product…)
• Outline a Communication Plan (storytelling, manifesto, core values, online presence… )

Search, investigate and experiment to accelerate your learning and develop your project by iterations.

• Visualize your concept
• Clarify your directions and objectives
• Outline a realistic roadmap
• Finalize your project presentation
• Evaluate the outcomes, simplify and keep iterating

Send a request (online form).

Early on I became attracted if not fascinated by computers and went from hacking video games and learning English along the way to working in my twenties as a software developer and a database architect. As the internet wave hit Europe, I quickly became a digital project manager and a game designer.

For the past 25 years, I worked as a consultant and independent project manager, applying agile methods for web development, game design and digital production. I have a Master of Science degree, in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a specialization in Project Management. I taught project management, agile methods and creative design as a guest lecturer for 10 years in France (Master of Video Games), the Netherlands (Utrecht School of Arts) and Singapore (Ngee Ann Polytechnics).

As an avid-trail-runner, I started by experimenting with plant-based food for active people. While running a cooking studio in Haarlem, I wrote 12 books on plant-based cuisine and explored the emerging vegan scene in The Netherlands, France, California, Croatia and España...

I worked as the Executive Chef & Project Manager to launch Yi Athens Raw Vegan Café in Greece, MK Culinary Academy in Thailand and TOM's Juice Bar in St Barth and as a consultant for Apollo Group to develop the plant-based cuisine on board the Oceania and Regent cruise lines.

Through these projects, I keep promoting Plant-based lifestyle for active people and Plant-Based as a NEW Speciality Cuisine.

I imagined, developed and launched Blue Lotus Hua Hin, the first Learning Center for Plant-Based Cuisine in Thailand.

Which means, in no particular order: Hiring, Coaching the Instructor Team • Business Development • Quality Control • Teaching, Coaching students • Project management + Problem Solving • Storytelling, content creation and online communication • Curriculum Development: Pure Energy, Green Thai Cuisine, Chef's Training, Instructor Training + Business Coaching • Plant-Based Menu Development for the Resort + Training cook

And now? I am working as an independent consultant specialized in creative plant-based projects. I am based in La Palma (Canary islands, Spain, EU). Don't hesitate to contact me.