Carina Benninga
Carina Marguerite Benninga (born 18 August 1962 in Leiden) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Other highlights of her career include gold medals at the EuroHockey Nations Championship and Champions Trophy in 1987, as well as a gold at the 1983 Women's Hockey World Cup and the 1990 Women's Hockey World Cup. Next to her sports career, Carina Benninga studied law; in 1987 she got her Masters’degree.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's field hockey | ||
| Representing the Netherlands | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| 1984 Los Angeles | Team | |
| 1988 Seoul | Team | |
| World Cup | ||
| 1983 Kuala Lumpur | Team | |
| 1990 Sydney | Team | |
| Champions Trophy | ||
| 1991 Berlin | Team | |
| European Nations Cup | ||
| 1984 Lille | Team | |
| 1987 London | Team | |
As a captain of the Dutch women's hockey team, Carina Benninga got acquainted with issues of leadership, cooperation, communication, motivation and acceptance. After her active sports career, Carina Benninga completed a series of training courses in the field of psychology and coaching. In 1994 she started her own agency for coaching and consulting.
Carina Benninga coaches and advises on the level of both personal development, team development, and organizational development. In the period 1998 - 2015, she was a director at Van Ede & Partners, a leading career and outplacement agency in the Netherlands. Since 2001, Carina Benninga focuses on The Work of Byron Katie; she is Facilitator and Presenter of The Work in Business.