Leadership For a Better World
Creating Perspectives For Change
Thursday 3 October 2024
Speakers
Michelle van Tongerloo
Street Doctor
Michelle van Tongerloo is a general practitioner and street doctor in Rotterdam. As a street doctor provides care to the most vulnerable people – often homeless, addicted or undocumented. She writes about her experiences during her consultations on the back of prescription sheets and later develops them into articles for De Correspondent, linking major social issues to the raw reality of her consulting room. She believes that treatment starts with listening: not the disease, but the patient’s story should be the focus.
Van Tongerloo sees how vulnerable children become vulnerable parents who in turn produce vulnerable children – the consequences of living together under one unsafe roof. Many diseases are caused by poverty, stress and an unhealthy lifestyle. Early and effective intervention, circumventing long waiting lists, can make a world of difference.
“What I do is always from the interests of my patients. What they ask for is often simple: a decent income, a good education and a clean house. But support in acquiring this repeatedly proves to be too complicated for healthcare and welfare organizations. Because they are supply-oriented, they are unable to come up with a solution for something as simple as children who are forced to stay at home and not go to school due to a transport problem.”
See a tv-interview with Michelle (in Dutch) for Buitenhof.
Saskia Mureau
Director Customer Digital
Is Director Customer Digital at the Port of Rotterdam. She is passionate about using digital as an enabler to tackle the climate challenge. In her previous role as Chief Digital Officer at Shell, she drove the digital transformation for Shell’s Global 828 business spanning 150 countries and 8000 employees. Saskia is a board member at several start-ups and has a passion for advancing (gender) diversity. She currently lives in the Netherlands with her husband and daughter.
See Saskia speek about the transition of the port of Rotterdam.
Twan van de Kerkhof
Founder European Leadership Platform , author, editor
Twan van de Kerkhof founded the European Leadership Platform in 2003. He is passionate about leadership, loves asking penetrating questions and is an experienced moderator and facilitator.Before founding ELP, Twan was a journalist for 15 years, working for the Dutch Press Agency, as an independent journalist and as editor-in-chief of the magazine Management Scope. Twan has written seven books, the latest being ‘The YOU of Leadership’ (2013). He is also the editor of the books that were published in the ELP Leadership Series. Twan is an avid cook and a wine enthusiast. He is living in Landsmeer, near Amsterdam, with his wife Alexandra.
