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Linda Tonkes (1977) is an entrepreneur, author, and recognized expert in contract management, relationship management, and supplier relationship management. She is one of the driving forces behind the CATS CM®, CATS RVM®, and CATS SRM® methodologies. Linda has authored several books, many of which have ranked multiple times among the top ten management books in the Netherlands.

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Drawing on her background as a Certified Public Accountant and her extensive experience in audit and consulting, Linda combines a sharp focus on audit, governance, risk, control, change management, documentation, and value creation with a strong emphasis on what truly works in organizations. Her philosophy is simple: do not do things twice; do them right the first time.
 

After a successful career at Deloitte, Linda deliberately chose the path of entrepreneurship. There, she saw firsthand how contracts make a difference in practice, not merely as documents, but as strategic instruments for value creation, performance improvement, collaboration, and control. Through this perspective, she helps organizations shift from simply buying or selling something to achieving something together. This combination of clearly defined agreements, disciplined execution, and implementation excellence remains at the heart of her approach and proven methodology.

Since 2019, Linda has been one of the owners of CM Partners. In this role, she develops and continually refines methodologies that help organizations improve collaboration in a sustainable and structured way. Linda’s passion is not structure for the sake of structure, but structure that enables organizations to realize results.

Her focus is on making execution work: establishing clear priorities, defining roles and responsibilities, creating a rhythm of steering, measuring, and continuous improvement, and applying an approach that can be used across a wide range of industries. As a result, agreements are not only established but consistently delivered upon. Linda is hands-on and results-oriented, and she is known for her ability to translate complex challenges into practical, integrated solutions that provide both clarity and a clear path to execution.

As a result, Linda is not only an entrepreneur, author, and expert, but also a leading ambassador for a proven international methodology that helps organizations not only manage contracts, relationships, and suppliers more effectively, but, above all, achieve better performance.

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