Els van der Helm, PhD
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Els van der Helm, PhD is a sleep neuroscientist and boardroom advisor who works with global organizations to improve performance through sleep. She conducted her research at the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences and at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the effect of sleep on cognitive performance. As a Fulbright scholar, she also studied the impact of sleep on the brain and performance while pursuing her Ph.D. in psychology at UC Berkeley, before becoming a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Van der Helm’s work has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Wired. She is a frequent keynote speaker for organizations such as Novartis, Booking.com, Meta, L’Oreal, and PwC.
