Connecting with people’s stories, building creative storytelling principles and bringing an energetic presence on any stage is what makes me excited. Having worked in the startup field for years, and being an avid fan of Toastmasters, I now bring my energy, experience and knowledge to others, so that they too can become more confident and efficient speakers.

Josefine-Hermine Levers is a holistic nutritional scientist and the founder of “Endlich unbeschwert.” Shaped by her own journey with histamine intolerance, she guides clients through personalised coaching towards more ease in body and everyday life. At the festival, she leads a meditation to help you arrive in the present moment and joins the panel “Uncomfortable Rooms grow better businesses”, sharing how stepping into discomfort can spark clarity, resilience and growth.

Giorgia Giannini is an Italian writer, poet, and visual storyteller based in Amsterdam. She’s the author of Rubik, a poetry and photography book exploring vulnerability, identity, and the different, sometimes contradictory versions of ourselves. Through writing, workshops and film, she explores what it means to be human, especially the feelings and experiences we don’t always know how to put into words. At the heart of her work is the belief that we don’t have to experience the world in the same way to find something of ourselves in one another.

Emily bridges the worlds of leadership development, systemic coaching, and holistic practices. Drawing on her corporate background, she creates spaces for reflection, connection, and transformation, combining systemic insights with embodied practices. Rooted in the belief that leadership starts from within, she invites people to look beyond familiar patterns, reconnect with their essence, and turn self-awareness into conscious action. At Econnect Festival, she explores what it means to choose a new direction without betraying the person you’ve been.

Karin is an Italian Yoga and Pilates teacher based in Amsterdam and a former professional contemporary dancer. Her teaching combines attention to alignment and movement with curiosity, body awareness and kindness towards ourselves. She encourages students to take time to explore each posture and find what works for their own bodies. At ECOnnect, she’ll share a Slow Flow Vinyasa practice centered on mindful movement, breath and finding your own rhythm.

Anne Gélébart is a leadership and team coach, coach supervisor and facilitator who is passionate about helping people connect more deeply with themselves and others. Her approach blends coaching with systemic and somatic practices, movement and play. A passionate improv student, Anne loves how improvisation invites us to be present, listen, let go of control and discover each other differently. Based in Amsterdam, she is also a Pilates teacher, Aikido practitioner, mum of two, foodie and concert geek — and firmly believes that connection doesn’t always have to be serious!

Laurie Foulon – Creator of Healing Waves: energy healing experiences infused with Yoga bodywork and Body Poetry guidance.

She holds friends on the self development path through private and group sessions, combining energy transmission through her hands with deep somatic sensations. Her love for words and creation of safe spaces allow for deep release through the body, mind and spirit. Her Yin Yoga classes transmit nervous system reset and recovery.

Born in Prague, shaped by the world: Zuzana is a certified fitness performance trainer and nutrition coach. Her health and fitness journey started at university and took her from competitive swimming all the way to Singapore, where she completed her personal training education, before returning to the Netherlands. She now lives and coaches people who are on their fitness journey in Amsterdam. Zuz wants to help people feel strong, confident, and at home in the gym. Strength training for her is a tool for feeling good both physically and mentally.

Being passionate about reconnecting people with their body, emotions and higher self in a grounding way, Margo’s work includes different forms of meditation, sound & energy healing and movement practices as well as coaching. All inviting us back into an embodied, authentic wholeness within ourselves and in our connection with others and nature.

Eli discovered yoga as a transformative path to recovery after injury, training across Europe and Asia to blend functional movement and traditional practice. Her classes help you reconnect to your body and cultivate inner power through movement, breath, and play.