The power of SLEEP by Dr. Els van der Helm
3 September 2019 – Workshop
Sleep is one of the main drivers of our performance and happiness – both at work and at home. But we often take sleep for granted, without acknowledging the impact it has on us.
Join us for a workshop on sleep to learn about what happens in your brain when you’re not sleeping enough and discover ways to hack your sleep!
Do not wait and register today as the spots are limited.
The session is hosted by Dr. Els van der Helm, the founder and CEO of Shleep.
By implementing the information you learn in the workshop, you will soon be on your way to better performance, health and happiness.
Evening Programme:
18.30 – 19.00 Registration of PPW Members and Guests
19:00 – 19:10 Welcome & Club Business
19.00 – 21:00 “The power of Sleep” workshop by Dr. Els van der Helm
21:00 – 22.00 Networking
Location: Eye Film Museum, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam
The meeting will be held in English and is open for guests/non-members of the organizer, The Polish Professional Women in the Netherlands Society.
We are looking forward to hosting you at this event!
About Dr. Els van der Helm and the Shleep
Dr. Els van der Helm is a sleep expert, ex-McKinsey consultant and founder of Shleep, a company focused on improving the performance of organizations by improving the sleep of leaders and teams with a digital sleep coaching platform. Clients include top firms in consulting, tech and banking. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley and is an adjunct professor at IE Business School in Madrid.
Els extensively researched sleep during her Master’s in Neurosciences, during which she studied the effect of sleep on memory (Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences) and emotional processing (Harvard Medical School). She also studied the effects of sleep on the brain during her PhD in Psychology (University of California Berkeley), resulting in peer-reviewed articles in Current Biology, PLoS One, Psychological Bulletin, SLEEP, PNAS and several book chapters.
