NEW LOCATION! Join us for our regular monthly meeting at ROOM in The Hague.
Share your business experiences and network with our members and other guests. Be sure to bring along your business cards!
Date: Thursday 27 March 2025 Location: IN-PERSON at ROOM, ROOM Next Door & Café La Chambre 19:00: Doors open for networking 19:30: Meeting, speaker, questions, followed by networking (till 22:00)
Our topic this month: Understanding Neurodiverse Clients for Small Business Success
This engaging 1-hour presentation equips solopreneurs and small business owners with the knowledge to effectively collaborate with neurodiverse clients, focusing on those with ADHD and Autistic traits. In today’s competitive market, understanding diverse client needs isn’t just good practice—it’s a strategic advantage.
Participants will learn how clients with ADHD or ASD process information and why their behavior can be confusing at times. You will learn how to slightly modify or adjust your communication to reduce misunderstandings, avoid project delays, and create seamless, mutually rewarding partnerships.
The session covers practical techniques to:
Structure timelines, plans, and feedback that work for ADHD or ASD clients’ unique brain wiring.
Use clear, tailored communication to minimize misinterpretations, prevent overwhelm, and to keep tightly focussed on original agreements.
Help such clients stay on track while respecting their boundaries and strengths.
Leave with the confidence to guide your neurodiverse client relationships more assertively —ensuring smoother projects, better time management and higher client satisfaction.
Whether you’re new to working with neurodiverse individuals (or not even aware that you have neurodiverse clients), this presentation is your gateway to understanding this unique brain-wiring, resulting in improved collaboration and project success.
Jacinta Noonan is a coach, trainer, and subject matter expert specializing in neurodiversity, communication, and interpersonal dynamics. Based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, she helps individuals and teams bridge gaps between technical professionals, neurodivergent individuals, and the broader business environment to foster collaboration and drive success. Jacinta delivers workshops, talks, and coaching on topics such as ADHD, neurodiversity, stress resilience, and burnout – prevention & recovery. A dynamic entrepreneur, she continually evolves her work to support small business owners, expats, and professionals in building better communication, understanding diverse perspectives, and enhancing workflows.
ImpactCity will bring together two thousand impact makers from around the world in The Hague for the eighth edition of ImpactFest on 7 November 2023 . Startups, scale-ups, investors, knowledge institutes, companies, policymakers and other passionate individuals working towards a sustainable, inclusive, and fair economy will get together to tackle global challenges.
A programme focused on collaboration
Organisations such as B-Lab, New Optimist, True Price, the Young Climate Movement, Oxfam Novib, Willicroft, and NL Space Campus have already pledged a role in the programme. Climate activist Aniek Moonen, Marije Klomp who was elected CSR Manager of the Year, and Bert van Son, founder of Mud Jeans and named Circular Hero 2023, are also part of the programme.
Jasmine Anouna, founder and CEO of The Bloom, a global community of 30,000 social impact professionals, and SDG Goalkeeper at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will open the programme. Sofie van den Enk, known from the ‘Keuringsdienst van Waarde’, chairs the day.
From talk shows to meetups and roundtable discussions, all sessions will focus on four main themes: Energy & Oceans, Food & Agriculture, Climate Justice and Circular Economy & Resources.
A few of the highlights are:
Meet frontrunners in the impact economy: Opportunity to meet pioneers in the impact economy who dare to step beyond boundaries and bring new ideas to life.
Get the latest news from the impact economy: Impact entrepreneurs have the chance to launch their new product, showcase sustainable innovation or announce news. For example, a book will be launched on steward ownership, focusing on the company’s mission rather than profit maximisation.
Find out what leading impact investors are looking for: The tables have turned. Fourteen investors, including big names such as Invest-NL, DRK Foundation and DOEN Participations, pitch their favourite business plan to (potential) impact entrepreneurs to create successful collaborations.
Get insight into the latest trends in impact: In collaboration with Dealroom, ImpactCity is launching the ‘State of Impact’. A report that shows, among other things, where the most impact companies are growing and which topics are most invested in. Additionally, during the four talk shows, visitors will be updated by experts on current trends and innovations related to one of the main themes.
Get in-depth during a meetup or roundtable discussion: How do we ensure that circularity becomes the new norm and the friction with profitability disappears? As an impact company, how do you engage top talent and how do we empower Generation Z? How can you get the B Corp label? With no fewer than 45 meetups and 38 roundtable discussions, a wide variety of topics will be covered.
ImpactCity is one of Europe’s leading ecosystems for organisations that combine ‘doing good and doing business’. With ImpactCity, the Municipality of The Hague facilitates entrepreneurs and other impact makers with innovative solutions when starting and scaling up their businesses.
ImpactFest started in 2016 as an annual event where the ImpactCity ecosystem can meet in a casual festival atmosphere. It has grown into an international must-attend event in the world of impact.
Initiator ImpactCity organises the event together with the Municipality of The Hague, Unknown Group and KplusV. ImpactFest is supported by the Province of South Holland, Rabobank, Oxfam Novib, DOEN Foundation, Clockwise and B Lab.
The Global School for Entrepreneurship (GS4E) opens their new campus in The Hague in September. Based in de Titaan building, students at the GS4E gain an accredited Bachelor’s degree alongside real-world business experience. Do you know an entrepreneurial young person who would like to either start a business or do a business degree? Did they know they can do both? Share this information below with them!
Study and startups
Launch your startup and gain your Bachelor’s degree simultaneously in a four year programme designed specifically for entrepreneurs. No business idea yet? No worries. This programme will help you transform your ambition into a viable venture.
Win a 15,000 euro scholarship
Showcase your entrepreneurial spirit through a motivational video before 16 June 2023, and have the chance to win a 15,000 euro scholarship. Half of this can be directed towards your tuition and the other to your startup. Have questions? Attend the “Ask us Anything” session on 6 June 2023. For full terms and conditions and the application process, visit: https://www.gs4e.com/scholarship/
Not sure if entrepreneurship is for you?
If you’re not yet ready to commit to a four year programme, then join the 90 day trial programme in Amsterdam or The Hague.
Take your business to the next level
Already have a business – and a Bachelor’s? GS4E also offers a Master’s programme developed for founders that are ready to scale up.
Want to know more?
For full details on this unconventional education, and to schedule a call for more information, visit: https://www.gs4e.com/
De Titaan building in the Binkhorst region of The Hague will officially open its doors in September 2023 for organisations who align with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Twenty innovative scale-ups have recently moved into the building, which is still being renovated and due to be completed by the summer.
Jurgen Nieuwenhuisen, Chief Operating Officer of Unknown Group, who are based in, own and manage the building, gave a tour to journalists last week.
The Hague City Council Alderman for Finance, Economy and Culture, Saskia Bruines, was also present and explained the vision of “ImpactCity” – a supportive ecosystem where entrepreneurs, organisations and government all work together towards building a better world.
ImpactCity is an official programme that helps to start, grow and establish an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in six areas: visibility, network, talent, finance, innovation and infrastructure.
De Titaan is an important building for the city, that aims to offer scale-ups the facilities and services they need to grow, all in one place.
The Global School for Entrepreneurship, an academic institution of applied sciences already based in Amsterdam, will base its second campus in The Hague from September in De Titaan.
The Binkhorst region already hosts the Cabellerofabriek, focussed on the creative sector, and Apollo 14, which is for start-ups.
Plans are underway to open three more buildings for innovative and sustainable organisations in the next five years: Frank is een Binck (2024), One Milky Way (2026) and de Nieuwe Hallen (2027).
A state of the art building of 13,000 m2 in the Binkhorst region in The Hague will open its doors in September.
Its focus is on scale-up organisations that align with Sustainable Development Goals
It features one thousand solar panels and an energy label of A++
Office space, Coworking, Makerspace and Experience Centre
Community events will be held regularly, with many that are open to the public
The Global School for Entrepreneurship (GS4E) opens their new campus in The Hague in September. Based in 