Esmé Valk
After the Hotelschool The Hague, Esmé Valk pursued her career mostly within the People domain within companies, focusing primarily on employee centricity and Quality of Work for all 70.000 working in the aviation sector at Schiphol. She played a crucial role during Corona in keeping the airport running, as well as resolving the operational crisis at Schiphol in 2022 and this led, at the age of 40, to her position in the Executive Committee at Royal Schiphol Group.
After dealing with crises for 3 years, restoring the magic at Schiphol for all employees became her personal mission. While the reputation was at the lowest point in history she showed an enormous drive in restoring the pride.
The Hotelschool set her up for success in both stakeholder management and communication style which enabled her to break through the thickest walls. Esmé lives together with Pascal (also a former Hotelschool The Hague student) in Haarlem and together they have 2 children, Philippe and Philou.