Choose Work
Choose Work
Podcast Description
I’m Heidi, Founder of Heidi Coaching & Training. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
Each episode focuses on one specific work-related theme, explored in-depth over multiple episodes through interviews with Dutch or English-speaking experts or individuals with firsthand experience.
This podcast provides answers to questions like:
* How can I find work that aligns with my personality, talents, and values?
* How can employers promote Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace?
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various themes surrounding career development, including finding work that aligns with personal values and talents, promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and entrepreneurial inspiration. For example, episodes include topics like 'Giftedness in the Workplace,' as discussed by Dr. Sabine Sypré, and practical advice for managing personal finances while building a meaningful career.
Hosted by Heidi – coach, expert in giftedness, and mindfulness teacher – this podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights — empowering you to make thoughtful choices about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a leading expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Femke Hovinga (37) is a social entrepreneur, speaker and researcher specialising in giftedness. She is the founder & director of SCALIQ, a psychometric research and development institute, and the founder & managing director of Talentissimo,an expertise center focused on giftedness.
In this episode, Femke shares her own journey through education and work as a gifted person, including the challenges she experienced. She also talks about her mission to improve the lives of gifted individuals and the story behind SCALIQ’s development of IQ tests designed to measure scores from 105 to 170.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Meet Femke Hovinga: social entrepreneur, speaker and researcher specialising in giftedness
02:10 Growing up gifted: “I felt different, like the odd one out.”
05:20 From struggling at school to a promise at age 6 to make things better for gifted people
06:20 Being identified as gifted at age 6: Understanding why she felt different
12:30 What gifted children need to thrive: being seen, accepted & finding peers
24:20 Understanding IQ differences & the “odd one out within the odd ones out”
27:30 Why she founded SCALIQ: Developing IQ tests up to 170 & what makes the KIQT+ and VIQT+ different
29:50 What does it mean to norm & validate an IQ test?
37:40 Why self-funding SCALIQ?
41:00 Why identifying giftedness is not a luxury but a necessity
49:45 Should you retake an IQ test?
01:00:00 Femke’s vision for the future
01:02:30 “Be the person you needed when you were younger” — Femke’s message
01:04:05 How to get in touch with Femke & learn more about her work
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References:
– KIQT+ from ages 5-10: https://scaliq.com/en/the-kiqt-2/- VIQT+ from ages 11-70, including call for participants for norming process: https://scaliq.com/viqt/ (in Dutch)
– KIQT+ white paper: https://scaliq.com/en/kiqt-whitepaper-en/
– Study: (Un)identified. Study into predictive factors in the identification process of (presumably) gifted learners and/or children with a developmental advantage by school and parents: https://scaliq.com/en/unidentified/
– How the scoring of KIQT+ works: https://scaliq.com/maar-3-subtesten/ (in Dutch)
– Why a separate IQ test for (highly) gifted people: https://scaliq.com/waarom-een-speciale-test-voor-hoogbegaafden/ (in Dutch)
– Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
– Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
– Dr. James T. Webb
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Support the podcast:
– If you enjoy Choose Work, you can support it with a small voluntary contribution (even the price of a coffee) via Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/choosework
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Contact Femke Hovinga & learn more about her work:
– LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/femkehovinga/
– SCALIQ: https://scaliq.com/en/scaliq-bovengemiddelde-iq-testen-english/
– Talentissimo: https://www.talentissimo.eu/
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For feedback or suggestions for topics or guests, email me at [email protected]
Contact Heidi – Coach • Expert in Giftedness • Mindfulness Teacher:
– Book a free discovery call at heididelanghe.com/contact
– Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/heididelanghe
– Instagram: instagram.com/heididelanghe.coaching/
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the host. The conversations are intended for informational purposes and do not constitute professional, psychological, or career advice.
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