Mauritz
Degransart

Mauritz Degransart in a navy suit and tie
Hover to meet David

David's message: courage starts in the mind.
Focus. Think. Believe.

A statue that celebrates human strength.
That is what I believe in.

Qualified teacher & International
Business
Management

Scroll · Enter the studiolo

I The teacher II The journey III The builder IV The student V After hours VI Why I look up

Always stay a student

Ryan Holiday

  1. Florence, 1501

    Michelangelo was 26 when they handed him a block of marble two sculptors before him had given up on. Three years later, it was David.

    This room is where I'm working on mine. Welcome to the studiolo of Mauritz Degransart.

  2. I · The teacher

    It started in a classroom.

    Teacher of History & Geography, cum laude. Three years explaining the world to the toughest audience there is: sixteen-year-olds.

  3. II · The journey

    Then the map got bigger.

    An Erasmus semester in Oulu, Finland, opened my world — and gave me friends on every side of it.

  4. III · The builder

    So I started building.

    A history game tested by 45 students. A booking website for a brasserie with thousands of guests a month. Ideas, turned into things people use.

  5. IV · The student

    I never stopped reading.

    Strategy, money, character. Thirteen books that rearranged how I think.

  6. V · After hours

    When the work is done, I play.

    Seventy-one songs on the piano. Thirteen I could play in my sleep.

  7. VI · Why I look up

    And I always look up.

    Fighter jets, since I was a kid. Some things you never outgrow.

  8. The overview

    Six chapters. Pick one — or keep scrolling and I'll tell them in order.

Chapter I

The teacher

Before business, there was a classroom. Three years of teaching History & Geography taught me more about people than any course could.

VIVES · 2023 – 2026 · cum laude

Today's lesson

  1. Read the room before you speak.
  2. Make the complicated simple.
  3. Keep them curious.
Pick up the chalk

In the classroomIn business

  • Holding a class of teenagers for fifty minutesPitching to a client who has five
  • Adapting one lesson to every level in the roomTailoring one proposal to every stakeholder
  • Planning a full school year, lesson by lessonPlanning projects that land on time
  • Preparing faster with AI toolsWorking smarter, not only harder
  • Bachelor in Teacher EducationHistory & Geography, cum laude · VIVES, Torhout
  • Teaching internSecondary schools in West Flanders · 2024 – 2026

Chapter II

The journey

Fourteen places, told by the compass rather than the calendar: south to the sun, across the Atlantic, into the Arctic and up the Baltic, to the one that changed everything. Strap in.

Take-off

01 / 14

Izegem

Belgium

Home. Where every flight starts.

Final destination

Oulu, Finland

Spring 2026. An Erasmus+ semester at the University of Oulu, less than two hundred kilometres from the Arctic Circle.

This is where my world opened. I met people from every corner of the map: real people, with real dreams and real passion. I'm still in touch with them today.

Messages from the friends I made here: coming soon.

Chapter III

The builder

Ideas are cheap until someone uses them. These are the ones I took all the way. Pull a file from the drawer.

The Herodocus game box: a dark red box with a golden column logo and five pinned location photos
The box
The Herodocus game board: five locations and an hour-by-hour timeline over two days, ending in a final report
The board: two days, five locations
A classroom presentation of Herodocus, showing what's inside the game envelope, with the materials laid out on a table
Tested in class

2025 – 2026 · Bachelor's thesis

Herodocus

A history game that doesn't teach students what to think. It teaches them to doubt.

Role
Creator & product designer
Format
Cooperative investigation game + web platform
Players
1–5 · ages 14+ · 90–120 min
Tested
In class, with 45 students
Status
Working prototype, live online

The question

Students meet more sources in a day than ever before, but rarely ask who made one, when, and why. Source criticism is usually taught as a checklist. I wanted them to feel it.

What I built

A two-day investigation. Players move between five locations — the lab, the headquarters, the archive, the university and the field — on an hour-by-hour timeline. They chase leads, question sources, meet halfway, and end by writing one final report together. The physical game comes with a web platform I built myself using AI-assisted development.

From idea to classroom

  1. Concept
  2. Brand: name, logo, box
  3. Game design
  4. Web platform
  5. Class test
  6. Thesis

“Herodocus doesn't just teach students history… it teaches them why they should doubt.”

From my thesis defence
Open the live prototype

Interlude

The toolkit

Every tool I work with, sealed in one envelope. Break the seal, then hover a stamp to see what I do with it.

Chapter IV

The student

Always stay a student. Thirteen books that rearranged how I think, guarded by the man who started it all. Pull one off the shelf.

Niccolò Machiavelli1469 – 1527 · Diplomat of Florence 3D model “Niccolò Machiavelli” by Matheus Pedreira, CC BY 4.0. Simplified and re-shaded.

Drag to turn the book

The big idea

Chapter V

After hours

When the work is done, I play. Seventy-one songs on the piano; these thirteen I can play from start to finish. Pick a record.

On the platter

Pick a record

from the crate

My own recordings: coming soon.

Chapter VI

Why I look up

Restricted · Personnel database · File MRTZ-2004 · Clearance: open to recruiters

HUD · Live

Since I was a kid, I've looked up every time a jet flew over.

Subject profile

Callsign
MRTZ
Born
2004
Base
Izegem, BE · 50°55′N 3°13′E
Frames of interest
Aviation
Tech industry
Automotive
Education
Interest since
Childhood
Mission
Business development internship
Status
Cleared for take-off

Cross-reference · Cockpit protocol → Business

  1. REC-01Pre-flight checklistProcess discipline. Prepare like it matters, because it does.Declassified
  2. REC-02Mission planningA market-entry plan: route, fuel and an alternate, all before take-off.Declassified
  3. REC-03Situational awarenessKnow where you are, where you're going and what's moving around you.Declassified
  4. REC-04Aviate, navigate, communicatePrioritise. Keep the business flying first, then steer, then tell the story.Declassified
  5. REC-05Crew resource managementNo pilot flies alone. Use every person on the team, and listen to them.Declassified
  6. REC-06The wingmanPartnerships. Always cover the one flying next to you.Declassified
  7. REC-07Calm under pressureSteady in a negotiation, and on a Saturday-night rush in the brasserie.Declassified
  8. REC-08The debriefHonest review. What worked, what didn't, what we do next time.Declassified

Epilogue

Trained as a teacher.
Building what comes next.

International Business Management student at HOGENT, looking for an internship in business development at an international name. If that's you, I'd love to talk.

Let's talk LinkedIn Résumé (PDF)
  • Based inIzegem, Belgium
  • StudyingHOGENT, Ghent
  • SpeaksNL · EN · FR · DE
Portrait of Mauritz Degransart, arms crossed, in a dark brown half-zip sweater
M. Degransart (b. 2004) Portrait of a young strategist On loan to whoever hires him.