KOOY COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons


Willem van der Kooy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project and Program Manager
Willem brings senior level experience across a broad range of functional business areas and has great business acumen and Project Management expertise to develop and execute strategic plans aligned with corporate goals. Willem is a focused project and program management professional, who has extensive global experience leading and managing projects and people from different cultures and organizational structures. He has a strong reputation for developing strategic, cross-functional project integration teams which focus on the voice of the customer and also maintain vigilant attention to execution processes. He is widely recognized for his expertise in data centre migration and managing transformational change. Willem is a skilled communicator and mentor for leaders, teams and individuals, and models his knowledge and expertise with his interactions at all levels in the organization. He has facilitated many workshops and sessions in addition to leading transformational change projects. He utilizes leading edge and industry standard Project management processes and tools to ensure critical dates, timelines, change and information is properly documented and communicated. Willem brings credible processes, knowledge and skills to any organization.

Winnie Linker

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Consultant
  • Leader
Winnie is an exceptional leader, consultant and coach. She has over 25 years of highly successful and effective experience managing organizational change as well as aligning people strategies with business goals. Her intimate knowledge with all aspects of sound planning and strong management has given her an enviable ability to implement strong transformation change. Her deep experience comes from her many years of partnering with numerous large, growing, and complex public sector enterprises as they adapted to this change which impacted their entire business including their people, their processes and their systems. Winnie is a results oriented professional who has effectively built and designed new business divisions, and has a track record of being enormously successful developing positive work environments with new and merged cultures. She has a customer focused mindset and has a well acknowledged knack for developing human resources functions to be strategic business partners and she takes great pride as she has helped catapult many organizations to become award winning Top Employers. Winnie's greatest ability is her strategic thinking and action, to be able to identify opportunities which make workplaces more productive, and in being able to get organizational development and change projects and initiatives supported, and successfully completed.