Charlotte Lemmens, Made in Indonesia, 1950
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Charlotte Lemmens shares her family life with her husband Vincent Icke. Their combined children range from several grown-ups all the way to an almost 9 year old girl, who are a source of great joy every day we spend with them.
Currently working as CEO at:
Kasteel and Estate Keukenhof, Lisse: a beautiful estate of 230 hectares of woods, meadows, parks, gardens, a castle and 17 more monuments. The world famous flower exhibition is hosted on about 50 hectares of the Estate. My ambition is to further develop this unique beauty spot near the sea, in between Amsterdam and The Hague, just around the corner of Schiphol Airport. It will be a sparkling and buzzing center of natural and cultural activities all year round emphasizing the original purpose of this type of noble estates: to serve as a cradle for innovation, arts, science, dialogue and philosophy. But always leisure, beauty, playing, nice food and drinks included!
LeavesForLife: a foundation that aims to have 2 billion hectares of trees planted in the next 40 – 50 years. Using Dutch innovations this can be done on very dry and marginal land, for instance bordering on deserts. Forestation of only 5% of the current deserts is enough for the 2 billion hectares of forest.
Aelium: a theme park about the Universe, Life and Planet Earth, with the help of all science and technology available and developing now and in the future. Aelium itself will also be an innovation of the attraction park concepts in the world, and the most sustainable theme park of the planet, with great emphasis on all possibilities of sustainable building, working, living, transportation and such.
Aelium will be founded in China and in The Netherlands.
Has worked at:
Child Psychiatry, Child Protection against abuse and maltreatment, social welfare and community building, teaching at College, University, Postdoc and Business Schools. Producing and directing television programmes, writing management books and leading complicated reorganization and change-of-culture processes in companies and institutions. Worked as temporary/interim manager in all kinds of companies and organizations (see below). Developed new concepts and innovations in numerous fields of management, public attractions, museums and companies. Director Innovation, R&D, project development and design of Emmen Zoo. Keynote speaker at events and congresses, lecturer at De Baak Center of Management Training and Leadership Development, Head of Masters Programme Media Technology at Leiden University.
Dutch television: Vrouw en Paard, a VARA talk show on national television, asked Charlotte Lemmens to make a tv column for each show. She was free in the choice of topics and wrote her own scripts.
Education: Linguistics, Social work, Child Psychology, PAO Innovative Management, Diagnosis of Leadership, a wide range of courses and a great variety of learning-by-doing.
Was :
Leads and advises quality improvement processes, reorganization, development of corporate vision and strategy in companies and institutions/organizations, for instance:
Publications about her Vonk Project (De banaan wordt bespreekbaar; De banaan voor gevorderden; ’t Kon minder). Wrote a monthly column in Vrouw en Bedrijf, collected in: Waar gaan die beentjes naartoe? Many articles, readers, interviews, television programmes.
Political and public work:
Hobbies: Nature in all its aspects, travelling and movies, literature, poetry, theatre and arts, especially architecture and sculpture. The Ligurian cuisine and learning Italian in ons huis in Italia.
Most recent update 29 November 2010