Key Notes

As a keynote speaker, Nele Jacobs translates scientific insight into practice for boards, leadership teams and HR professionals. Below is an overview of her six keynotes — each adaptable in length and available in Dutch or English. 

The Phoenix in you

On mental resilience and rising after setbacks: recognizing your (perceived) obstacles, and rebuilding yourself through emotional intelligence and values-driven action.

Mental Health for the HR Professional

Helps HR business partners and directors navigate mental health issues beyond burnout and stress: recognizing warning signs, building a support ecosystem, and facilitating reintegration.

The Essentials of a Strong Reintegration Policy

Gives leaders and executives a human-centered framework for moving from ad-hoc actions to a strong, structural reintegration and prevention policy, including impact measurement and ROI.

Authentically Ambitious

On pursuing ambition in a healthy way: ambition as both a blessing and a curse, grit management, and staying flexible on your ambitious path. Together with The Phoenix in You, also the throughline of her upcoming book, Authentically Ambitious: Discover the Phoenix in You

Female Leadership as an Advantage

Shows how "soft skills" are the strongest driver of modern leadership, and how female leaders combine empathic connection and psychological safety with decisiveness and results-orientation — grounded in fifty years of leadership research and neuroscience.

From Wellbeing Valhalla to Impact

An academically grounded compass for business leaders: moving from a proliferation of wellbeing initiatives to evidence-based prevention and reintegration policy (the "match model"), with AI as a proportionate accelerator for early detection — linked to SDG 3 and SDG 8.