Motivational expert and senior consultant at Flourish SDT, Hermina Van Coillie has been guiding teams, managers and organizations for years. Using the basic principles of SDT, she brings them to an optimal level of functioning. She obtained her PhD in Quantitative and Personality Psychology at KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) in 2004 and continued for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where she focused on individual differences in the experience of emotions. Hermina worked for 14 years as a research expert at Securex, where she wrote numerous white papers, reports, press releases and scientific articles. A sought-after speaker, she gives lectures, workshops and training courses on her research topics, and has often appeared in the national and regional press.