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The story · Ruud Meulenberg · Dordogne
This is MensFortia
How an entrepreneur who built and sold his company created MensFortia in the Dordogne for teams, leadership groups and entrepreneurs who want to keep learning.
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What MensFortia stands for
Learning comes first.
Strong people make strong businesses. With a practical, positive view of the future. We believe you can keep learning throughout your life: from what goes well, from mistakes and from difficult experiences. Not everything is pleasant or within our control. But we can pause, look honestly at what is there and explore the next step.
We bring that outlook to work. How you live influences how you build a business, lead and work with others. That is why we work with teams, leadership groups and entrepreneurs — in retreats in the Dordogne and as an interim director inside the company.
Who is Ruud?
An entrepreneur through and through.
My name is Ruud Meulenberg. I am the founder of MensFortia. You may know me as the founder of Meulenberg Training & Coaching and Milltain.
As a child I already had small businesses. Later, I became a commercial director in a large organisation, then started my own business supporting people affected by burnout. It grew to a team of 75 employees.
I built it, led it and sold it. I do not only talk about entrepreneurship — I have lived it. I also step in when a company needs a director for a period of time.
On LinkedInReal conversations, in your language.
Ruud leads conversations in English, French and Dutch. For international teams too: one person to talk to, with attention to what each person wants to say.
How MensFortia began
It started with a question.
What do you really want?
I lived in a beautiful place and could do many things. Yet I slipped back into meetings, obligations and keeping the company running. That is when I asked myself this question.
Three things that drive me
Entrepreneurship is in my blood, people are in my heart and movement is in my body. I enjoy things that are simple and a little rough, but also warm, generous and enthusiastic.
MensFortia
I brought these three things together in MensFortia. Strong people make strong businesses. In the Dordogne, we pause, learn from what is happening and explore how to move forward — in life and in work.
What that means
One name. Three ways forward.
(Leadership) teams
Understand what is really happening between you, agree on ways of working and choose a direction you can carry together.
Explore this approachEntrepreneurs
Explore the role that fits your company's next stage, what you can hand over and what you want to keep doing yourself.
Explore this approachInterim management
I temporarily take on leadership in your company: structure, commercial activity and leadership, with a handover your people can carry.
Explore this approachDoing what I believe in
I live what I stand for.
You will often find me cycling, running or walking in the Pyrenees. Taking distance from the everyday routine is not just a method for me: it is how I arrive at clear choices myself.
I enjoy creating, developing and thinking ahead, with calm and good health. That is what I like sharing with you.
Cycling Pyrenees Campfire
Where it happens
Outdoors, around the fire, away from the noise.
At a suitable location in the Dordogne, there is time to pause, ask questions and try different ways of doing things. Difficult experiences do not need to become a polished story. We look at what you need to move forward, with less pressure and more enjoyment.