We are GORT® …

GORT® Professional Quality Standard
Since 2009, we have adhered to the GORT® Professional Quality Standard. This scientifically developed model (Utrecht University) sets our quality standards.
Our professionals must meet more than 20 strict quality standards, which are continuously monitored by our quality manager. This way, we can always guarantee a stable and high-quality level of all our services.
The GORT® vision on coaching
We see coaching as a structured and goal-oriented process, where the coach interactively encourages the coachee’s effectiveness through:
- Awareness and personal growth
- Increasing self-confidence
- Exploring, developing, and optimally applying one’s own possibilities in work and private situations.

GORT® HQ team values …
- Continuous quality improvement: we continuously improve systems and ensure that we always meet the highest accreditation standards.
- Personal development as a way of life: we live and breathe personal growth in everything we do.
- Connectedness: we work together with great pleasure and support honesty in the office/with each other.
- Results: real steps lead to real results, allowing us to look back on our achievements with satisfaction and pride.

Founded in 2009
2009 | START IN UTRECHT, Netherlands
GORTcoaching starts as the coaching practice of Occupational & Organizational Psychologist Tosca Gort in the Zakkendragerssteeg in Utrecht Center. There is immediately a high demand for quality coaching. By ’13, 25 specialized coaches/psychologists are working in 15 locations in the Netherlands. A quality manager is appointed, and several interns work for GORT.
2015 | GROWING IN AMSTERDAM
GORTcoaching continues to grow rapidly and moves the head office to Ruysschstraat in Amsterdam-East. GORTcoaching also becomes a family business. In ’17, we start with coach pool management. Later, this word and this way of working become the standard in the Dutch market.
2018 | GORT CONCEPTS & COACH TRAINING
We start offering, among other things, coach training and move the head office to Amsterdam. In ’20, we reach the magical number of 1000 coaching locations. GORTcoaching is now weekly in the press, and the GORT coaches are the highest certified (senior accreditation NOBCO) in the Netherlands.
2021 | GROWING FURTHER with a QUALITY perspective
From our specializations in coaching, psychology, outplacement, customized training, confidential advisors, intervision, teambuilding, team coaching, talent development, coach training, mediators, and relationship therapists, we want to make many more people in world happier, more productive, and more successful.
Recognitions & Awards

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Real results with real people
Our mission at GORT® is to make quality coaching accessible and to help professionals flourish. We believe that coaching makes you more productive, brings you better balance, and helps you reach your full potential. Annually, we provide more than 10,000 valuable insights.


OUR VISION FOR 2030
We see daily how our quality coaching helps people achieve more balance, productivity, and effectiveness. Therefore, by 2030, we want to offer our services in all major global cities. Do you want to help build with us?
We have more than 1000 locations available
Enthusiastic, honest, analytical, and results-oriented.
Enthusiastic, honest, analytical, and results-oriented.
NO A.I. during sessions with GORT®
Real coaching, real connection
At GORT®, we believe in the power of in-person coaching for true accountability and motivation. We also recognize that unresolved privacy concerns make AI unsuitable for coaching sessions. Clients should feel completely safe and free to speak openly, without compromise.

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