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What our former students say
Joris Martens (NL)
“Kaospilots was born out of curiousity. What can people become when challenged by real world issues? Knowmads will have the same DNA as KP: it will shaken up your old self and with hard work you will find a new self. This time you will be surprised how creative, crazy and passionate you really are.”
Selma Steenhuisen (NL)
“Being one of the KaosPilots has exposed me to different companies and organizations to work with. I have had a chance to travel and work in different countries. Being part of a team has helped me to develop personally. But most of all its the freedom that you give yourself to explore and develop your talents that makes me recommend Knowmads to anyone who does not feel at home in the regular educational system.”
Ursel Biester (DE)
“Right now I love my education at KaosPilots because it brought me in contact with the Hub shop, the business I am setting up now. When I started at KaosPilots, I had a very rough idea about what field I want to work in and I wanted to take time to specify it, now my hands are running faster than my head and I am already working in a business which is helping to make the world a better place: a great field. The practical experience of success and failure of concrete projects during the education made me believe that you can achieve great things, if you just go and try it. KaosPilots was also very good for my personal development, especially the team setting played an important role in this. These two years have brought me far and I am very happy I took them!”
Jord Hilstra (NL)
“During two years of Kaospilots I worked for several clients, visited and worked in eleven different countries.I opened up towards creativity; learned the beauty of diversity most of all it made me realize to follow my own path, free of labels, dogma’s and other ‘noise’. Create or postpone my own judgments.
I know now that I want to create and become an independent mind.”
Olivier Chaput (B)
“KaosPilots supported me in travelling and engaging the world in a way I would never have done before. Team working is a struggle but become and great asset when you succeed. In KaosPilots I had a daily chance to practise and improve.
I imagine KnowMads as a similar if not better version of springboard to the world.
Gather you dream, strengthen your team and jump in the journey.”
Kim van Rijt (NL)
“KaosPilots Netherlands made me believe in my qualities as a possible leader, inspirator and entrepreneur. I believe that it is possible to learn and do at the same time whilst having fun and doing what I think I should do. It has given me peace in stressful situations ‘it will work out in the end’. Working, learning and being with people in a team has given me insight in myself and groupdynamics and I think that everyone should give themselve the gift of self-insight. It is frustrating and hard, but mostly fun, as life should be.”
Alex Falk (S)
“During my time with the KaosPilots we worked constantly with applying our drive to our passion with results that kept amazing even myself and my teammates. My first day with the KaosPilots I said I wanted to become a better multitasker, or Homo Universalis 2.0 if you will, and I feel I succeeded with my goal. I believe that this is what is needed in the relatively new world of creative business and I feel that the Knowmads are moving in the same direction. There’s no telling what might happen when you use your full potential.”
Carianne Vermaak (NL)
“One of the principles of our education ‘allow yourself to be surprised’ guided me perfectly through my adventure of KaosPilots. It was a rough, fun and fast learning rollercoaster, but in all my projects I have been happily surprised about many things. And mostlty about myself. I am very glad that I gave myself the opportunity to explore, fail, struggle, try, and grow in the middle of an international jungle of great companies and wonderful people.”
Inga Aubjörg Kristiansdotter (Iceland)
“Being a KaosPilot or a Knowmad isn’t just a profession or a title. It’s a lifestyle. It’s about making decisions that are right. Right for the environment, right for society, right for your client, right for your co-workers, but most importantly: Right for you. It’s about failing. It’s about succeeding. It’s about working hard, with your heart, and having fun, with your head. The KaosPilots took me places I wouldn’t have gone, both geographically and internally and they’re still my runway into the world, now from a different airfield in a different country. Let the Knowmads change your life and let yourself change lives through Knowmads!”
Soe Bouchentouf ( Netherlands & Morocco )
Kaospilots is an education full with the unexpected. A school that turns you upside down and prepares you to stand on your own bare feet. It allowes you to recognize & utulize your talents at the right moment and the right place. Instead of waiting for these moments I learned to sence them
