Director of Development Hancher Auditorium AGE: 31 What was your first job? Lifeguard at the Spencer, Iowa YMCA. Best advice you ever received? Underpromise, overdeliver. That was the essence of my performance review after my first year in the workforce out of college, and it’s as useful to me today as it was then. What […]
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Director of Development
Hancher Auditorium
AGE: 31
What was your first job? Lifeguard at the Spencer, Iowa YMCA.
Best advice you ever received? Underpromise, overdeliver. That was the essence of my performance review after my first year in the workforce out of college, and it’s as useful to me today as it was then.
What do you consider your biggest break so far? Having the chance to work at the University of Iowa Center for Advancement as the Hancher fundraiser in my third year out of college.
What would most people be surprised to learn about you? I’m fluent in Dutch – my dad’s from Nederland, and I grew up speaking it at home.
What’s the biggest issue facing the Corridor, and why? Inequality of opportunities for everyone. We have neighbors who are experiencing homelessness in horrific numbers, kids who are dropping out of school and lonely elders.
If you had $1 million to give, what causes would you support? My children’s education; Hancher; Infuse Church in Tiffin.
What are your passions outside of the workplace? Being with my family; being a friend; reading; playing saxophone with a couple of jazz ensembles; strategy games; listening to great music.
What’s something people should know about your generation in the workplace? We are dissatisfied with how things are. Our mentors and today’s leaders have built amazing things, and we want them to be ready for tomorrow.
What do you want to accomplish by the time you are 50? Be a better husband and father than I am today, a more generous colleague and volunteer, and more kind and joyful than I am today.
