Loek Schoenmakers is owner of Appreciative Change Works since 2011, has worked a lifetime within education as a teacher, school leader, coach, school advisor, teacher trainer, researcher, developer and policy advisor both in the Netherlands and abroad including Aruba, Suriname, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belgium. In 2011 he obtained his doctorate from Tilburg University in cooperation with the Taos Institute on the basis of a large innovation project in Suriname for Primary Education. Is coordinator of TAOS Europe. Loek Schoenmakers is guest lecturer at Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo within various Master programs. He is also a core lecturer and developer within the Master Learning and Innovation, the Master Education and Technology and the Master Inclusive Education. He wrote several publications including Happily Different (2014) and Realizing Sustainable Education Together( 2016).