About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Meet The Founders
Co-Founder and Education & Athletics Counselor at PIE. She also serves as CEO and Counselor at UStudy, a prominent international education consultancy that she founded in 2005. She served as College Counselor at the International School of The Hague and worked for EducationUSA in the US and Tunisia. She was a senior policy adviser at the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs for over 13 years, including promoting a digital society.
Marina was born and raised in the Netherlands and is of Dutch and Chinese descent. She completed Law School in the Netherlands and studied Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies in the US. She worked in the Netherlands, US, South Korea, Tunisia, Malta, and Canada. She believes that international education should be accessible and affordable for all.
Co-Founder and Academic Counselor at PIE. Of Syrian and Lebanese descent, Sue was born in Kuwait, where she lived for 15 years before moving to the US to pursue higher education. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from California State University Sacramento in Computer Science, with a specialty in Software Engineering and Project Management, and a Minor in Mathematics. She then spent 25 years in corporate careers and created brick-and-mortar American schools in Europe.
Sue believes that the world's resources have become accessible and must be tapped to help the youth leverage international education wherever they reside. Sue leverages her international background and experience to provide an unparalleled guidance experience to her students.
Meet the PIE Experts
PIA CRUL
Performance anxiety trainer and Motivation Coach
Pia Crul has worked as a teacher, mentor, team leader, and performance anxiety trainer for 30 years in secondary education. She has developed her own method which is described in two books: Lefgasten for young people and Lefgasten for students, both of which have been translated into English under the name Daredevils method. She prefers to replace the term "fear of failure" with "blocking stress".
For the last 9 years, she has worked independently and has given individual and group training to pupils, students, and adults who block in their studies, work or social life. As a registered trainer, she also gives study days and training to professionals who want to work with this method. Her method is evidence-based and is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy and neuroplasticity. The effectiveness of the method is increased because parents are asked to read along so that active insight and recovery can arise for all parties.
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