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ECC Leiden
Haagse schouwweg 10
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, 2332 KG
Netherlands

Derek Bruce

Leadership Development, HR Expert

Derek Bruce, from London, and lives in Amsterdam. He rides a Triumph sports motorcycle, and even though he has over 115,000 hours of experience of riding motorcycles, he admits hes still learning how to be a motorcyclist. He is married to Floriana (from Italy), they met in Vienna, and has two daughters. As well as motorcycling, Derek supports Liverpool Football Club and is very much into mens fashion and considers himself a bit of a technology 'geek'.

Elsje Konings-Zeiss

Senior Management Assistant, Yoga teacher

Elsje Konings is an energetic and creative management assistant at Janssen Viral Vaccines and combines the hectic daily job with mindful yoga. She is married, has two adult children and lives in a small village. Besides her office job she is a yoga teacher and interested in health, Ayurveda and love to read and explore new places. As a Health Ambassador at Janssen, she want to help to stimulate a better work-life culture.

Ernst-Ariaan van der Giessen

Genuine thinking

“It was in 1996 when I finished my bachelor’s degree in Ireland. Twelve years later I noticed that during this time, I had written the basis of what is now called the Genuine Thinking(t) method. As I gained more and more experience, received real-life feedback from all kinds of people at all levels and types of businesses about business culture and intrinsic motivation - guess what everyone agreed? Curious?”. Explore your identity and be significant in your work and life! You hold the key! Go beyond the creation of a “why” and discover your personal, team and/or company’s heart. Work from the heart, instead of out of fear, towards significance. Ernst-Ariaan likes to trigger people and organizations to think and bring difficult questions back to their essence. He will share from his process, his experiences within corporate business and education backed up by feedback from companies, professionals and students. Ready to explore? Only for leaders with courage!

Frank Goedhart

Industrial Automation Consulting, GTD Training, Public Speaking

It is becoming more and more common to manage your own work, to balance your time between your personal and professional life and to make independent choices on the ever-increasing flow of stuff. I’ll share the method that helped me have a clear mind, be appropriately engaged, more productive and relaxed.

Hassan Ben Ahmida

Manufacturing Operator

Hassan always believed that his brain worked differently from everyone else's brain. This difference in thinking made him change the way new operators are trained on the job.

Hester Heemskerk

Manager Leadership & Employability

I am inspired by the impact of mental state and agility on performance. It is often the difference between doing a good job and doing a great job. I stimulate employees to embrace and optimize their talents and to work –when needed- on improvement areas. I advise employees/teams on how to make optimal use of everyone’s strengths. In cooperation with senior management I connect the business challenges with the ‘right people on the right place’, to make individuals and teams flourish and deliver results.

Kabita Mahadew

Motivational speaker and NLP practitioner

I want to contribute to a society in which people treat each other with respect and love. When I then look back on my life, I want to see a life where I have given everything to give others a positive perspective on life. A society where solidarity is central and the individual in the background. I am convinced that every person comes forward to create my life by motivation, positivity, inspiration and positive mindset with personal attention in his / her life. Personal attention is important here because when we give respect, solidarity, positivity, inspiration and motivation to each other, we all contribute to a more beautiful and loving society where unity and connectedness are central.

Marijn Kraakman

Cluster Value Team lead

Professional in pharma with experience in (international) marketing (hematology, oncology), sales management and healthcare innovation. I'm also the initiator of the young professional network within J&J (YoungJNJ) in the Netherlands and member of the Dutch Pharma Marketeers Association (NVFM).

Michelle Hammer

Creator and Founder at Schizophrenic.NYC

Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and created and founded the company Schizophrenic.NYC. She is an NYC native and was featured in the WebMD documentary Voices, which was nominated for a Tribeca X Award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018. Michelle has also been featured in Mashable, The Daily Mail, Stylist, and Buzzfeed to name a few. Michelle was diagnosed with Schizophrenia at 22, after a misdiagnosis of Bipolar at age 18. At 27, Michelle decided to use her artistic talents, and fearless personality to do something that could benefit the mental health community. In May 2015, she founded the company Schizophrenic.NYC, which is a clothing line with the mission of reducing stigma by starting conversations about mental health.

Prajna Khanna

Director, impact investor, catalyst for positve change

980 million people in the world have no access to electric light at night. The only light they have after sunset is from smoky fuels, candles, kerosene, wood or coal. Access to electric light can be transformational for communities, enabling growth and progress — socially, economically, and culturally. Through my daily work as the Philips Lighting Foundation, I am privileged to be a catalyst of positive change, enhancing the quality of people’s lives, often significantly, by simply enabling consistent access to light.

Robert van Ham

Supervisor, Credo lead

‘I would like to change how people eat the corporate sauce. Every project or announcement needs a little sauce, otherwise it is just plain pasta. However, not every culture likes the same sauce. I won’t tell you what to eat or how to eat it, but I would like to make you more conscious about it.’

Sandra Hegge

Senior Healthcare Solutions Leader

Her father used to say: ‘hurry when you have time, so you’ll have time when you need to hurry”. Keeping pace with her in a daily job was no fun at all. Some even questioned if she would see or listen to others anyway. After 17 years with the company she understands and practice to give her maximum attention to others. Her result is not based on the speed we live in but on the quality of our thinking. And now she wants to change the way we think