For more than fifteen years, Jochem worked in various settings as a corporate attorney.  His experience ranges from grinding as a Wall Street corporate finance lawyer, serving as outside counsel to various entrepreneurial teams and investors, to joining an executive management team as general counsel of a renewable energy company.  He has experience with a full spectrum of the business life cycle including founding, startup financing, early growth, later stage transformation, distress/breakdown, mergers and acquisitions, and post-merger integration.

During his corporate career, training and outdoor adventure were Jochem's own lifeline of health and sanity as he struggled with focus, pressure, burnout, anxiety, and feelings of emptiness.  His passions for kitesurfing, mountain biking, skiing, and snowboarding called him to explore oceans, mountains and deserts all over the world.  Eight years of competitive 24 hour solo and duo mountain bike racing led to many of his most powerful realizations about facing ourselves and tapping into our greater human potential.