Our mission
Our aim is to improve people's lives through growth.
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We do so by making personal growth more accessible, fun, and traceable for everyone, regardless of their background, wallet, time, and interests. We help people and teams get to know themselves more consciously, in order to craft a better life, unlock their full potential and find fulfillment in life and at work.
About Hippo Campus
Hippo Campus was founded by two growth addicts, Marine Liesenhoff and Bram van Oijen, with the idea of creating a safe and inspiring place for people and teams to discover and develop what helps them grow and thrive.
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Current times are more challenging than ever before. More and more we have the freedom to design our own life, but we have not gotten the toolkit to do so. Big themes are changing the way we work and live. To offer stability in these chaotic times, we have built a personalized approach to take control of your growth, so you can consciously craft your life and happiness throughout your development.
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We recognize that everyone has their own style of learning and their own way of going through life. Hippo Campus is your companion for growth. We make sure you build the optimal rhythm and method for your growth. We help you through our international community of growth experts and coaches, our online digital buddy, our physical places and events, and our library of knowledge and tools.
About the founders
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Marine
Liesenhoff
My aim is to support people build the future they want for themselves personally and professionally. Throughout my seven years as an innovation expert - working for entrepreneurs and international companies (e.g. ING, Luminus)- and as a life coach, I have been developing new ways to innovate the way we grow, which I am thrilled to bring along in Hippo Campus.
I believe that by developing a growth mindset, people can become more resilient to change, more open to embracing uncertainty, and more likely to unlock their full potential.
Bram
Van Oijen
I have been a personal growth addict since 2011. In 2013 I launched my first company with the aim of helping students in their personal growth. Over the years I've helped both people and companies with their growth, from corporates like Unilever, Deutsche Telekom, Maersk, and Mediq to startups and scaleups.
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In Hippo Campus I'm excited to bring together all the lessons learned over the years, from CEOs and experts, to individuals and teams from all over the world. Crafting a sustainable way of growth will bring you fulfilment and a happier life.
What is the origin of Hippo Campus?
We have built an approach where people and teams can safely experiment with growth and learn as fast as possible what works best for them, just as a campus would. We also got our inspiration from one of the most important brain functions: the hippocampus. Exactly like our personal growth, the hippocampus keeps on growing and developing in our brain and this depends on how much we nurture it. The hippocampus regulates our emotions, consolidates our memories, and helps us learn new information. Not stimulating the growth of our hippocampus as well as disregarding its signals of dysfunctions, can lead to memory loss, emotional numbness, burnout, and depression. Therefore, being aware of our needs, growth potential and rhythm is key to our fulfillment in life and at work.
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Did you know that your hippocampus plays a major role in your growth? ​​
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Regulates your emotions
The hippocampus engagement appears to be critical for emotion processing and response to positive stimuli, including autobiographical memories. Indeed it helps connect emotions to those memories to better understand what you're feeling.
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Learning new information
Learning new information is only possible thanks to its ability to link different parts of the memory together (e.g. when you learn that fish lay eggs, the hippocampus makes a connection between “fish” and “eggs”).
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Consolidates your memories
It helps the transcription of memories from short-term to long-term memory. Even though the memory itself is not in the hippocampus, without its help, you could not link the different parts of the memory together