Overview
Sofie Priem is co-founder and CEO of myCareerCompanion, a role she has held since June 2025. She is based in Diest. Since October 2024 she has also been a guest lecturer at UC Leuven-Limburg.
Her career to date has been spent at Crossbridge, which she joined in September 2015 as a junior research consultant. She became a junior HR consultant in January 2016 and an HR consultant in July 2018, before taking up the position of digital product and innovation manager for Crossbridge and myCareerCompanion in October 2020, which she held until May 2025.
Priem studied political science at KU Leuven, graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science and sociology in 2014, and completed a master's degree in management there in 2016. She subsequently took executive programmes at EHSAL Management School in project management, from 2018 to 2019, and in IT strategy and organisation, from 2020 to 2021.
Career history
Media & appearances
- Intentif TeamYouTubeSofie Priem (myCareerCompanion) over productiviteit zonder in te boeten op werkgelukSofie Priem discusses how myCareerCompanion, an HR tech company she co-founded, combines technology with human-centered HR practices to address career orientation and talent management issues. She explains that their platform creates efficiency and structure by distributing responsibility for career development among multiple stakeholders (employees, managers, HR) rather than placing it solely on managers, while maintaining scientific rigor and ensuring employees feel valued throughout the process.
In the news
- An employee who doesn’t want to become a manager isn’t necessarily less ambitious. They might want to deepen their expertise, lead complex projects or help others grow. And some people might want to manage a team, but hesitate because of the workload or lack of support they see in that role. In her column in De Tijd, Katleen De Stobbeleir writes about people who consciously turn down leadership positions. She raises an interesting point: how attractive have we made those roles? If managers mostly talk about how busy they are and how
- A major step for myCareerCompanion, but even a bigger one for organisations missing the necessary people insights to build their future workforce. Congrats Sofie Priem!!
- They’re live! 🚀 Meet Intelligence & Clara, our two new features at myCareerCompanion. And yes, I’m proud of this one. We help people understand their strengths, what matters to them at work and where they want to grow. With Intelligence & Clara, we’re bringing those individual insights together to help HR see the bigger picture. Where do teams need support? Which strengths are we overlooking? Are we investing in development that people actually need and want? 📊 Intelligence brings those patterns into clear dashboards. Clara
- The only future we can make is one we are able to imagine.” I heard this sentence at the HRtech Unfolded conference (HRmagazine) last week, and it stuck with me. Especially when I think about everything we’re currently asking of employees: adapt to AI, learn new skills, be open to internal mobility, take ownership of your career, reinvent yourself when your role changes,... But how can someone imagine a different future if they don't even know what their options are? If you've spent ten years in the same type of role, you
- Je medewerkers blijven. Maar misschien vooral omdat vertrekken hen te veel kost. En intussen betaal jij als werkgever ook een prijs voor mensen die blijven in werk waarop ze leeglopen en waarbij een op drie Belgen een burn-out riskeert. Vandaag lees ik in De Tijd over de gouden kooi: opgebouwde voordelen en zekerheid maken het moeilijk om van job te veranderen. Ook wanneer die job al lang niet meer past. Als werkgever kun je dus weinig verloop hebben en toch een probleem. Mensen blijven, maar hun talenten komen nauwelijks aan bod,
- Workplace wellbeing is about more than yoga workshops, mindfulness or healthy perks. What happens when people return to their desks matters much more: workload, autonomy, psychological safety, job fit and opportunities to grow. In our latest blog, Sofie Priem looks below the waterline and explores how the work itself shapes wellbeing. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/e9-RBs6m
- Oktober staat in het teken van mentale gezondheid. Heel goed dat ook bedrijven daar bewust tijd en ruimte voor maken. Waar ik wel wat mee worstel, is dat wellbeing daardoor soms heel snel vertaald wordt naar losse initiatieven: een workshop rond stress, yoga tijdens de middag, een sessie rond veerkracht... Daar is op zich niets mis mee. Maar als iemand daarna terugkeert naar een job met een structureel te hoge workload, weinig autonomie, geen perspectief op groei of gewoon een rol die niet bij hem of haar past, dan gaat die
- Why hire new talent when the right talent may already be inside your organisation? Reorganisations may eliminate roles, but they do not automatically eliminate the value and potential of the people behind them. At myCareerCompanion, we believe internal mobility and outplacement should be part of the same conversation: first understand the talent you already have, then explore where it can create value next. Our CEO Sofie Priem shares her perspective.
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