Dr. Els van der Helm is a sleep neuroscientist, adjunct professor at IE Business School in Madrid, and former McKinsey Consultant. She currently advises companies across the globe on sleep, performance, and well-being. She has successfully proven to be able to lower sleep debt, decrease stress levels, and increase performance at scale.
Dr. van der Helm started her career in well-being and performance with her Master’s in Neurosciences, where she investigated the effect of sleep on cognitive performance (the Netherlands Institute of Neurosciences) and emotional processing (Harvard Medical School).
She went on to study the effect of sleep on the brain and performance during her PhD in Psychology (UC Berkeley) before working at McKinsey as a management consultant and becoming Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid.
Her publications have been featured by Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, McKinsey Quarterly and many others.
