Greet De Baets is a business communication teacher and researcher. She is working on PhD research that combines two domains: intercultural business communication training and applied aikido, a Japanese martial art. Until 2018, she worked as a translator, a language teacher, a training coordinator and a communication trainer for private companies and public institutions. The geographical area she worked in comprised Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany. At the same time, the trainees and coachees often came from any country in the European Union. Since 2012, she has even coached many Japanese and some South Korean ex-pats working in Belgium.