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. After completing her studies in Neurosciences and Psychology, she conducted research at Harvard Medical School and earned her PhD at UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in, among others, the Harvard Business Review and McKinsey Quarterly.
Dr. Els van der Helm is a sleep neuroscientist, ex-McKinsey consultant and focused on improving the performance of organizations by improving the sleep of leaders and teams with through sleep training. Clients include top firms in consulting, tech and banking such as McKinsey, BCG, PwC, Facebook and AWS. She has shown to improve sleep quality by up to 50%, improve performance by 21% and lower stress by 30%.
Dr. van der Helm started her career in wellbeing 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:
