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Dr. Els van der Helm is a sleep neuroscientist, former McKinsey consultant, and corporate advisor who helps leaders and organizations understand how sleep shapes performance, resilience, and wellbeing. Over the past ten years, she has worked with organizations around the world, including Siemens, PwC, Meta, AWS, Sony, Spotify, and Deloitte.
She began her career in neuroscience, studying how sleep affects cognitive performance (Netherlands Institute of Neurosciences) and emotional processing (Harvard Medical School). She earned her PhD in Psychology at UC Berkeley, then worked at McKinsey and served as Adjunct Professor at IE Business School in Madrid.
Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the McKinsey Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Atlantic, Forbes, BBC, and Wired.
Els’s upcoming book, Sleep Intelligence: The High-Performance Blueprint for Sharper Thinking, will be published by Penguin Random House, on January 12, 2027.
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