Sebastian Piest

“Sebastian had the role of Clustermanager Transport and Logistics at the 11 Cities Swimming Tour 2018. I have come to appreciate Sebastian as a person who easily interacts with and motivates other people. He has a constructive manner of working, good basic management skills and an eye for details. During the 11 Cities Swimming Tour 2018 he turned out to be an excellent people manager. He can switch between the strategic side of an issue and the practical implementation when managing and coaching volunteers. Sebastian always takes that extra step when needed. ”

“As Senior Lecturer of Saxion University in Enschede, I have had the pleasure of knowing Sebastian Piest during his studies Business Engineering (Technische Bedrijfskunde) and the master program International Supply Chain Management. He has been an ambitious and exceptional student: a real asset to our university. In class, he has proven to be a creative problem solver and enthousiastic student, who likes to strive for innovations and new opprtunities! I know Sebastian not only as thrustworthy student, but also as somebody, who thinks about human relations. He is always willing to help other students and lecturers. For example: for a couple of years he was able to deliver modules to our classes about ICT related the supply chain management, which he carried out without the supervision of any lecturer. Additionally I asked him several times to organise workshops for a group of students of the minor "Supply Chain Management", which was a great success! One of his greatest talent is to apply theory into practice, which is absolutely necessary for developing innovations using emerging new technologies. He always takes an active part in scientific discussions, demonstrating maturity, strong ability to defend his ideas while paying careful attention to opponent’s remarks. I would also like to mention here, that he is accurate and thorough in his research, pays attention to details and has no dread of routine work. He participated as a project leader in several projects and was able to achieve significant results in improving business processes using ICT at customers of the Cape groep. During his projects he strongly engaged workers and encouraged their adoption of a new way of doing their jobs. From our collaboration I can conclude that Sebasitan has a strong motivation for practical scientific work. ”