Niek’s purpose as keynote speaker
Back to the essentials of a happy life

As keynote speaker Niek appears on stage with the topics of resilience, leadership and healthcare. What this has to do with the aforementioned? Everything. In his new ‘role’ he sees things differently and visits places where he did not come before. Healthcare for example. He found out service-mindedness (being one of the most common things in hospitality) wasn’t common in other sectors at all. Weird parking attendants, angry doctors, nobody saying hi to one another. And “thank you for your visit” seems to be gone completely. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about service-mindedness in hospitality, public healthcare or the government: being nice to one another should be the most common thing to do, right?

Often this is not the fault of the employees themselves. They are just too busy, they are stressed, the pressure to work is too high and there is too little time. Causing workplace happiness far to fetch. But they can’t change the (social) system in which they work themselves. You can only change yourself. Because only by taking care of your own well-being first – making sure to lower your daily stress level, lowering your workload and by taking enough breaks (research from emergency wards shows 75% of the nurses almost never take a break), you can take care of somebody else. It is human to influence our environment with our own behaviour. Niek thinks we are able to make every day succeed. “I know that we have to make decisions ourselves, nobody else does that for you. And that is my mission!”