Piet is co-founder and managing director of the MyMachine Global Foundation. With its unique and multi-award winning methodology, MyMachine units students in primary, secondary and higher eduction to collaborate as peers to bring to life ‘dream machine’-ideas invented by the children in primary class.  All these students learn that their ideas matter, that their ideas can make a difference, and how they can bring their ideas to life.  

Piet's work has been Recognised by Fast Company for the World Changing Ideas 2021 List. He is acclaimed Innovator Of The Year by the HundrED Academy. Forbes ran an article on the impact of MyMachine in the global education space. MyMachine is endorsed by a.o. the United Nations WSA, The New York Academy of Sciences, HundrED, The Qatar Foundation, Harvard University, Designmanagement Europe, Katerva, Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Unite), Tom Vander Ark (CEO Getting Smart), and business leaders and education thinkers alike. 

Piet is author of the book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide, with foreword written by Sir Ken Robinson.