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Rainier
Koers


Certified BrainCompass Navigator · Leadership & organizational development · Coaching

Rainier Koers
Accreditations

BrainCompass
Certified BrainCompass Navigator

Sports Performance Coach
Elite sport & corporate

Leadership development
Executive coaching & team effectiveness

Management & Directorship
20 years experience in senior roles

Community of Practice
Active core member 1for2 CoP

Rainier Koers is a Sports Performance Coach with international experience in elite sport and senior corporate environments. Most recently Senior Performance Coach at Manchester United under Erik ten Hag, Rainier now works at the intersection of leadership development and organizational behavior, using the BrainCompass model to help leaders and teams build genuine self-knowledge and more effective collaboration.

Rainier brings a thorough, relational approach to his work. He builds trust with clients and creates the conditions in which difficult conversations become productive.

Within the 1for2 Community of Practice he actively contributes to shared learning and further development of the BrainCompass applications. His certification covers all four layers of the model: Genetic, Social, Personal and Professional Drivers.

Rainier applies the model in an integrated way, always connecting behavioral insight to the specific context and challenge of the organization. His work covers individual coaching, team effectiveness, and leadership programs.

A career at the intersection


2000s

Management & Directorship
20 years in senior management and director roles across business environments. Develops the people-centric expertise that becomes his craft.

2018

Founds Koerscoach
Founds his own coaching practice Koerscoach in Zwolle. Life Coach and NLP Master Practitioner. Supports people stuck after disruptive life events.

2024

Manchester United
Senior Performance Coach at Manchester United under Erik ten Hag. Meets Kirsten Heukels at the club, where she is Profiler for the goalkeeping-coaching team.

2025

BrainCompass & 1for2
BrainCompass brings four layers together in one model: Genetic, Social, Personal and Professional Drivers. Rainier applies them in an integrated way, connecting behavioral insight to the specific context and challenge of an organization, and deploys it for leadership, team effectiveness and individual coaching.

Cover Manchester United · 2024
Club

Manchester United · 2024

Senior Performance Coach at Manchester United under Erik ten Hag. Performance coaching in a top-level elite sport environment. Here he meets Kirsten Heukels, at that time Profiler for the goalkeeping-coaching team.

What Rainier works on


Profilering & gedragsanalyse →
Analyse van micro-expressies, lichaamstaal en stemgebruik. Inzet bij selectie, beoordeling en onderhandelingen.

External confidential counseling →
Veilige, vertrouwelijke begeleiding bij ongewenst gedrag, integriteitsvraagstukken en klokkenluiderszaken.

Crisis & hostage negotiation →
Begeleiding in hoog-risico situaties, van corporate crises tot internationale onderhandelingen.

Leadership & executive coaching →
Individuele en team-coaching voor leiders die onder druk presteren en samenwerking willen verdiepen.

Trusted by

Leadership development and team effectiveness across education, healthcare, and professional services

Work directly with Rainier on leadership, team effectiveness or a BrainCompass track, or first spar with a colleague from the team.

Work with Rainier

← Pascal Comvalius
crisis & hostage negotiation

Wolfgang Paardekooper →
board consultant & confidential counseling