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My Red Couch Talk with Miriam van Kempen

Posted on February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 by Angie Weinberger

Miriam van Kempen is a mother of her son, Stein, an enjoyer of the good life of yoga, reading, learning, and exercising, and the sales director of Heart Relocation.

In this role, she has built Heart into a brand of caring professionals, helping global mobility teams build and improve their global mobility program and assisting their assignees and their families with their moves around the globe. To give back to the community and bring some of her other passions into the equation (connecting, helping people, and making the world a better place), she has founded LinkedIn communities such as Finders Keepers, Relocate the Profit, Struggle Latte with a Wink and Spill the Beans.

She started her career as a primary school teacher and has now been working for global relocation management companies such as Crown, Santa Fe, and Heart for almost a decade.