Jan Van Hees | SpeakerHub

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Jan Van Hees works with leaders who are done negotiating with themselves.

His work exposes the truth their nervous system has been signaling for years, while their mind kept overriding it.

Jan works directly with the body and the nervous system. He reads patterns in breathing, tension, timing and reactivity, and uses that information to reveal the survival strategies and unspoken beliefs that quietly shape leadership, decisions and relationships.

He is known for his calm intensity and for naming the thing people instinctively avoid, with a precision that disarms defenses rather than triggering them.

Clients often describe the experience as uncomfortable in the best possible way. Not dramatic. Not theoretical. Simply unmistakably true.

Jan’s message is clear:

When you stop negotiating with your own patterns, you stop performing and start leading with a clarity others can feel.

And once that level of truth lands in the body, there is no going back.

Current position (1)

Owner

RESET Rebel

Degrees (1)

Trauma-Informed Coaching, Somatics and Applied Neurobiology

Independent Professional Training

2018 to 2025

Presentations

Presentations (5)

The Nervous System Leadership Experience

The Nervous System Leadership Experience is a live, embodied session where leaders experience how their nervous system shapes trust, decision-making and impact long before words are spoken.

Through guided observation, real-time interaction and subtle nervous system shifts, participants feel how protection, control and overdrive show up in leadership. Not as theory, but as lived experience in the room.

Leaders discover how state affects communication, why teams respond before they understand, and what changes when regulation replaces force. Patterns become visible, safety returns, and clarity emerges without effort.

This experience doesn’t aim to motivate or fix. It creates the conditions where the nervous system settles, truth becomes accessible, and leadership reorganizes naturally.

What lands is not information, but a felt shift that continues to work long after the session ends.

How to Fuck Up Leadership

Where leadership really goes wrong has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with nervous system reactivity.
A confronting and often humorous keynote about micromanagement, control, distrust and the subtle ways leaders unintentionally trap their teams.
Sharp. Disarming. Impossible to unsee once you’ve heard it.

Your Nervous System Doesn’t Lie. Your Mind Does.

Before anyone says a word, an entire conversation is already happening between nervous systems.
This keynote shows why 95 percent of behaviour is driven by unconscious patterns, why good intentions collapse and why regulation and safety determine the outcome of every interaction.
Essential for leaders who want to understand what actually drives human behaviour.

Communication Without Manipulation

We communicate constantly, even in silence.
This session reveals why intention, regulation and clean internal signals have more impact than words.
Designed for teams who want communication that is honest, clear and far less reactive.
It removes the performance layer and replaces it with truth.

The Year-End RESET (seasonal keynote)

Why New Year’s resolutions fail and how organisations can create a real reset.
Not by willpower, but by aligning the nervous system with what you want to build.
Perfect for end-of-year events and new-season kick-offs that need more than motivation. They need truth, clarity and direction.