Willem Kweens
Organizational Ombuds
willem-ombuds@mwi.org
Willem Kweens is an experienced ombuds, mediator, and coach with the goal of helping foster good working relations, facilitating a more positive culture, and being the early warning for the organizations he serves. Willem is an emeritus member of the International Ombuds Association, of which he has been a member since 2009, and where he also served a 4-year elected term to the International Ombuds Association (IOA) Board of Directors and the Executive and Finance Committee (2018–2022). When he completed the initial organizational ombuds training, he obtained the Certified Organizational Ombuds Practitioner (CO-OP®) designation in 2011. Willem has almost 13 years of experience as a corporate ombuds in Europe (East, Central, and Western Europe). Before becoming an Ombuds, he worked for more than 25 years in Finance, Human Resources, and as a Pension Fund Director at Mars Incorporated, based in the Netherlands.
