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Every company runs on relationships: between colleagues, with managers, and at home, where the workday carries on. Praktijk de Liefde has guided more than 15,000 couples and knows better than anyone how people lose and find each other. We share that knowledge from the stage.
Not a trainer with a slide deck, but a philosopher who spent ten years working for multinationals and today leads the largest relationship therapy practice in the Netherlands. The talks are given by Jochum Damstra and grounded in the data of 15,244 guided relationships and more than 28,000 conversations. For boards, management teams, conferences and wellbeing weeks.
What 15,244 relationships teach us about how people lose and find each other. With figures no one else has: why 41 percent seek help outside office hours, why the second step is harder than the first, and why people are loyal to people rather than to your logo.
In seven months I rebuilt our practice into an organisation that largely runs itself: 257,000 lines of code, 33 processes running daily. About what worked surprisingly well, where it went painfully wrong, and above all about what we deliberately did not automate.
Both are keynotes of one hour including questions. We deliberately do not offer full-day programmes: one hour that stays with people, well prepared for your situation, and then you take it from there. On stage the same boundaries apply as in our therapy rooms: no client stories and no therapy for an audience. What you get instead are honest, sometimes confronting insights from thousands of guided journeys.
Jochum Damstra is a philosopher and entrepreneur. He studied philosophy at the University of Humanistic Studies, with psychology and sociology as a second foundation, and graduated in critical organisation studies: the field that asks the uncomfortable question of why organisations do what they do, and whether it could be done differently. He was named young philosophical talent of the year.
He then built and led Make Sense Health for ten years, a healthcare communications agency serving clients such as Pfizer, Novartis, Stryker and ABN, along with numerous hospitals. He knows the boardroom from the inside, including everything that is and is not said there.
He did not stay on the advisory side. He developed Dappr, a sustainable wound care brand now sold at Dutch retailers including Etos and DA, media partner of the Royal Dutch Hockey Association and partner of Royal Dutch Child Welfare Stamps. From idea to shelf: he knows first-hand what it takes to bring something new into an established market.
Today he is director of Praktijk de Liefde, the largest specialised relationship therapy practice in the Netherlands.
That combination is rare: a speaker who knows your world, who has a philosophical framework to make sense of what happens beneath the surface, and who holds data no other speaker has. On stage the same boundaries apply as in our therapy rooms: no client stories, only aggregated insights.
Previously spoke at
Festival Lowlands
Festival Brainwash
The School of Life
Broodje Filosofie, TU Delft
He also delivered training at Pfizer, Novartis, Stryker and other international companies, and speaks regularly for healthcare organisations.
A keynote starts from €3,500 excluding VAT, depending on location and travel time. You receive a quote within two business days with one total amount; you will hear an indication during the exploratory call.
Jochum Damstra, philosopher and director of Praktijk de Liefde. He graduated in critical organisation studies, led healthcare communications agency Make Sense Health for ten years serving Pfizer, Novartis, Stryker and ABN, developed the sustainable wound care brand Dappr, and speaks with the data of 15,244 guided relationships. He has previously spoken at Festival Lowlands, Festival Brainwash, The School of Life and Broodje Filosofie at TU Delft, and delivered training at Pfizer, Novartis and Stryker.
One hour, including a Q&A. A forty-five minute version works just as well for a tighter programme. We deliberately do keynotes only, no full-day programmes.
There is no maximum. The story works for a management team of twelve and for a hall of five hundred; a smaller group leaves more room for conversation.
Yes, both keynotes are available in English and Dutch.
Briefly tell us about the occasion, the date and the group. We call within one business day and you receive a quote within two business days.