Key Notes
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.
AI for Better Hybrid Mental Health
AI can make mental health care more accessible: earlier intervention, support that doesn't stop at five o'clock, help that grows with the need. But it's no miracle cure. Without the right approach, it risks overreliance on technology, a loss of human contact and uncertainty about what happens to sensitive data. This keynote shows employees and leaders alike how to use AI meaningfully and responsibly for their own mental resilience, with an eye for both its possibilities and its limits.
What clients say
"The combination of academic rigor, hands-on experience, strategic insight, and a forward-looking vision makes Nele a highly inspiring and credible speaker who not only engages her audience but also motivates them to take meaningful action."
Frank Fripon, Director Health Care, Claims & Specialties, Vanbreda Risk & Benefits
"Nele brings the spark of spontaneous intelligence. She is of course an expert in the psychological field, but combines that with entrepreneurial insight, an open mind, and a mutual curiosity. Her contribution to our podcast on responsible applications of AI in self-care was highly appreciated by fellow panelists and listeners alike."
Roeland Buckinx, PhD, Manager Health Campus, Strategic Expert Life Sciences
"What particularly resonated with me during Nele's keynote was the unique combination of a socially relevant topic such as mental well-being with the technological innovation behind it. Nele presented complex subject matter in an accessible, clear and inspiring way. Despite the sometimes challenging nature of the topic, her message remained positive, hopeful and deeply human. Her passion for the subject was evident throughout the entire presentation. She captivated our audience, offered new insights, and at the same time provided a nuanced perspective on both the opportunities and the responsibilities of technology in mental health."
Horejah Hertsen, People Operations Manager, Cegeka