About Hertz

Brigitte Hertz founded our training agency in 2000, after working as a researcher herself for 15 years. Since 2025, Marieke Hohnen has taken over the leadership of the agency. We provide training at nearly all universities in the Netherlands, as well as at several abroad. The agency provides a wide range of training courses, including short workshops for PhD students, career development courses for postgraduates, individual ERC Grant presentation coaching and multi-day leadership programs. Hertz training has been involved in various successful Marie Curie / ITN applications.

In addition to its training courses, Hertz training can provide a chair for a forum to lead a room discussion, or guide a departmental teambuilding day. Key words in all of Hertz training activities are: clear goals and results, creative perspectives and a pleasant atmosphere.Individual coaching is also possible, specifically geared towards time management or career planning, for example.

The Hertz training courses incorporate plenty of practical exercises and individual feedback. Participants are guided in deciding their own strategy for how they want to develop their roles. At the end of the course they will know what they want to achieve and which approach to use. Researchers are under considerable time pressure, and Hertz, training therefore works with compact programs, covering a lot of material in a short time. Theoretical components are kept short and also presented as handouts and in a reading list.

Most of the course material is developed by Hertz training, transfering up-to-date theories and models to an academic context.
The agency continually tracks current affairs and regularly publishes or refers to interesting articles, see ‘Good reads’.