MSc Business Administration
In Leadership & Change Management
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Year: 2025/2026

Daan E. Faverey

I did not start this degree because of a career plan. I started it after a diving accident in the Philippines and a conversation with a doctor who asked me the right question at the right time. This portfolio is what came out of the year that followed: honest about where I started, clear about where I am headed.

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Daan E. Faverey at Sintra, Portugal
Daan presenting the AIQOS Change Story at the AIQOS office, Den Haag

Presenting the AIQOS Change Story research at the AIQOS office, Den Haag

Portfolio Message

What this portfolio communicates

The most useful thing I can tell a future employer about myself is not my grade list. It is that I function as a connector, someone who bridges groups that would not otherwise talk to each other. In Burt's (1992) terms, I occupy structural holes. I can spend an afternoon with a truck driver and a financial controller and find genuine common ground with both. That is not a personality trait. It is a professional capability, and it shows up in how I work.

Inside: a self-reflection tracing how the year disrupted what I thought I knew about myself; six pieces of evidence ranging from a research project at a change consultancy to a summer in a pizza kitchen; a skills rubric that maps the evidence honestly to the assessment criteria; a career page built around the environments where I do my best work; and the learning plan I wrote in September 2025, which makes the growth in everything else visible.

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Joining a local football match in Vietnam Daan With friends at a wedding
"If you love life, do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
Bruce Lee
Skills Snapshot

My strongest professional competencies

Each card links to the evidence behind it. Percentages are self-assessed, honest, not aspirational.

Communicative Skills

From translating 12 interviews into a practitioner framework at AIQOS, to hosting hundreds of professionals at a national congress. Audience-first, argument second.

Broad Horizon

From the North Sea to Manila, genuine engagement with perspectives well outside my own field, discipline, and comfort zone.

Self-Reflection

Including a rejection pattern I would rather not have noticed, two job applications I didn't get, and what I have done with both.

Metacognitive Skills

Building tacit knowledge unconsciously, and then watching someone else not have it, and understanding what that meant.

Connecting Across Difference

Finding common ground with people I had no obvious reason to talk to: and building professional relationships from it.

Process Improvement

Identifying what is missing and building it from scratch: in a recruitment start-up, in a kitchen, and in a change consultancy.

Portfolio Evidence

Six experiences, one thread

Each piece shows something real about how I think, adapt, and develop as a professional.

The Change Story

Research → practitioner tool · AIQOS

Congress Host

Veranderen voor de Toekomst

Recruiter

Process builder · start-up

Trip to Asia

Learning to let people in

Pizza Kitchen

Fort aan de Klop · tacit knowledge

MSc at ING

Leading Change Projects · VU Amsterdam
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Navigation Guide

How to read this portfolio

All roads lead to Rome. Start anywhere.

1

Self-Reflection

Where it started, what the programme disrupted, where I genuinely struggled, and the professional I am becoming. ~1,200 words, 5 sections.
2

Portfolio Evidence

Six experiences, from a research presentation to a pizza kitchen, each with a reflection question I haven't finished answering.
3

Skills & Rubric

How the evidence maps to the four assessment criteria, with self-assessed competency scores and honest notes on where each still falls short.
4

Career Direction

The roles I am aiming for, the environments where I do my best work, and the gaps I still need to close before I get there.
5

Initial Learning Plan

The goals I set in September 2024, the baseline that makes the growth in the rest of this portfolio visible.