Meet the Speakers
Vassia Sarantopoulou
Psychologist
Summit Organiser
& Host
Vassia is an international speaker specialising in perfectionism and burnout recovery, supporting ambitious professionals and entrepreneurs to quiet the inner critic, replace trauma-driven patterns, and build sustainable success without sacrificing well-being.
Her work combines science-based, trauma-informed strategies with a compassionate, practical approach to help people thrive in both work and life.
She is the founder of AntiLoneliness, an international mental health collective, and The Therapy Business Circle, a community for mental health professionals growing their practices in a sustainable, values-aligned way.
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AntiLoneliness | The Therapy Business Circle
Alexandra-Maria Iurian
Clinical Psychologist & Therapist
Hosting the workshop
Rewiring the Mind for Self-Compassion: A Clinical Hypnosis Experience
Alexandra Iurian is a therapist specialising in stress, anxiety, burnout, and life transitions. Her work is rooted in the belief that meaningful change begins with feeling truly seen and heard, and with the courage to make choices aligned with one’s values.
Drawing from both professional training and personal experience, Alexandra understands the complexity of navigating difficult periods marked by overwhelm, uncertainty, and self-doubt. Her approach integrates evidence-based methods including CBT, Schema Therapy, ACT, DBT, clinical hypnosis, and nervous system regulation.
With experience working across international and multicultural settings, she supports individuals and groups in building resilience, improving emotional wellbeing, and creating lives that feel both meaningful and sustainable.
Alina Porumboiu
Psychotherapist
Hosting the workshop
Slow Burnout: Healing After Separation & Emotional Loss
Alina Porumboiu is an experiential psychotherapist with a background in systemic and schema therapy, working with individuals, couples, and families navigating separation, co-parenting, and complex relationship dynamics.
Her work explores how burnout often stems from long-term emotional over-functioning and disconnection from personal needs. She focuses on slow burnout in the context of separation and divorce, supporting people to develop self-compassion, restore balance, and build more sustainable relationships - with themselves and others.
Camilla Gamba
Psychotherapist
Speaking in the panel
From Overdrive to Regulation: How Nature and the Body Heal Burnout
Camilla is an Italian-American psychotherapist living in Milan, Italy, working at the intersection of transcultural practice, clinical psychology, and eco-psychology.
Her work is rooted in the understanding that we are not separate from nature but shaped by it — as thinking, feeling, and sensing bodies embedded in wider relational and ecological systems. I am particularly interested in how reconnection to self, others, and the living world can open more sustainable and compassionate ways of
being.
Concetta Cucchiarelli
Focus & Attention
Strategist
Speaking in the panel
The Hidden Burnout Cycle in Neurodiversity: ADHD, Focus & the Cost of Coping
Concetta Cucchiarelli is the founder of Sustainable Focus and Focus Gym, and author of My Focus Gym Workbook (2025). With 15 years of transdisciplinary research into perception, sound, and attention as a complex system, she discovered what mainstream productivity culture misses: the very standards we hold about how we should focus are themselves a driver of stress and burnout.
Her Sustainable Focus Framework offers a 360-degree approach that draws on psychology, behavioral economics, philosophy, neuroscience, sociology, and human-computer interaction, teaching focus through connection rather than isolation, and helps individuals, teams, and organizations build high-level and sustainable performance.
Based in Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Dagmar Hopf
Psychologist &
Systemic Counsellor
Speaking in the panels
Beyond Burnout: What Needs to Change in Mental Health, Work & the Way We Live
and
The Hidden Burnout Cycle in Neurodiversity: ADHD, Focus & the Cost of Coping
With over 20 years of experience as a psychologist, certified systemic counsellor, and coach, Dagmar supports adults navigating burnout, anxiety, and life transitions. Her integrative approach combines systemic therapy, mindfulness, embodiment, and trauma-aware support, helping clients find clarity and sustainable ways forward.
Her work focuses on burnout, emotional regulation, life transitions, and neurodivergence, particularly with international professionals through her practice Sevenbirds. With a background in organisational change and experience as an expat and mother, she brings a nuanced understanding of identity, ambition, and belonging.
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Ioana Vieru
Coach &
Speaker
Presentation on
When Success Stops Feeling Good: Reconnecting with Your Inner Compass
Ioana Vieru is a Coach & Speaker working with people in high-performance environments who are successful, but inside, they're crumbling.
Drawing on 12 years in B2B sales, she speaks about the operating system underneath burnout: the patterns and needs that keep the nervous system running long after the goal is hit.
These are not people who are unkind to themselves. They're people who built an identity around not needing to stop.
You can't be compassionate with something you can't yet see.
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Irina Ciureanu
Psychologist & Psychotherapist
Speaking in the panel
Burnout, Decoded: Why It Happens, Who It Affects, and What We Keep Missing
and
Beyond Burnout: What Needs to Change in Mental Health, Work & the Way We Live
Irina Ciureanu is a psychologist and psychotherapist specialising in emotional healing, burnout, and personal transformation. With a background in organisational psychology and human resources, she brings a deep understanding of both inner dynamics and the pressures of modern professional life.
Her work is grounded in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a neuroscience- and attachment-based approach, which she integrates with a holistic view of mind-body connection. As one of the few AEDP-trained therapists in Romania, she is dedicated to supporting clients in understanding their needs, processing emotions, and building meaningful, balanced lives.
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Joana Esteves
Clinical hypnotist and RTT® practitioner
Hosting the workshop
Healing Self-Worth at the Root: The Subconscious Path Out of Burnout
Speaking in the panel
Beyond Burnout: What Needs to Change in Mental Health, Work & the Way We Live
Joana Esteves works with high achievers to overcome burnout driven by internalized performance-based self-worth.
Founder of Holistic Transformation Center, she developed a neuroscience-informed, hypnotherapy-based approach to help clients reset subconscious patterns, regain clarity, and sustain high performance without self-sacrifice.
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Dr. Julia Grosse
Founder & Speaker, The Cyclical CEO™
Speaking in the panel
The Burnout Women Don’t Talk About:
Hormones, Identity & Invisible Pressure
Dr. Julia Grosse is a former Arctic researcher and founder of The Cyclical CEO™, where she works on sustainable performance and capacity in high-demand environments.
Her work challenges the assumption of constant output and shows how aligning with natural rhythms can reduce burnout and improve focus, decision-making and long-term performance.
She brings a science-based perspective to the question of how we can work without burning out..
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Katie Walker
Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Speaking in the panel
The Burnout Women Don’t Talk About: Hormones, Identity & Invisible Pressure
Katie Walker is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Founder of Bergeseen Group, an international therapy practice supporting women navigating burnout, midlife transitions, and life abroad.
She focuses on how caregiving demands, hormonal shifts, and long-standing patterns of overfunctioning contribute to burnout in midlife.
Her approach integrates psychological flexibility, values-based actions, and practical strategies to support sustainable resilience.
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Kim Taylor
Nature
Coach
Speaking in the panel
From Overdrive to Regulation: How Nature and the Body Heal Burnout
Kim Taylor spent 19 years leading in high-pressure sustainability and leadership roles — until burnout stopped her in her tracks.
That experience became her turning point: she founded Little Dutch Farm, a regenerative farm in the Netherlands where she now works as a nature coach and garden therapist, offering nature prescriptions and garden-based programmes that support burnout recovery and mental wellbeing.
Her work is rooted in the belief that reconnecting with nature isn't a luxury — it's medicine, for people and for the planet..
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Megan Cornelissen
Psychologist
Hosting the workshop
Why Rest Isn’t Fixing Your Burnout
(And What Actually Will)
Megan explores the intersection of burnout, anxiety, and self-compassion, with a focus on how chronic stress impacts the nervous system.
Her work helps people understand why rest alone often doesn’t resolve burnout, how to relate to anxiety rather than escape it, and how to build a more supportive relationship with themselves.
She is passionate about translating psychological insights into practical, compassionate tools for everyday life.
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Dr. Naomi Gibson
Clinical Psychologist
Speaking in the panel
The Burnout Women Don’t Talk About: Hormones, Identity & Invisible Pressure
and
Beyond Burnout: What Needs to Change in Mental Health, Work & the Way We Live
As a Clinical Psychologist specialising in perinatal mental health, Dr Naomi’s perspective focuses on a period of life where burnout risk is particularly high, becoming a parent.
Early parenthood involves a profound identity shift, sleep deprivation, and relentless caregiving demands, yet many parents feel pressure to cope silently or to meet unrealistic standards. This talk will bring psychological insight to this transition, helping parents, and professionals that support parents, to understand how perfectionism, self-criticism, and lack of support can drive burnout.
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Nazli Medeni
Holistic Wellness Coach
Speaking in the panel
From Overdrive to Regulation: How Nature and the Body Heal Burnout
Nazlı Medeni is an ICF-approved Functional Medicine Health Coach and Life Coach working at the intersection of burnout recovery, hormonal health and holistic wellbeing.
She helps high-performing professionals — especially women in perimenopause and midlife — reconnect with their bodies and rebuild resilience from the inside out, through somatic awareness, nervous system science and sustainable lifestyle change.
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Neil Schambra Stevens
Leadership Development Coach
Speaking in the panel
Burnout, Decoded: Why It Happens, Who It Affects, and What We Keep Missing
Neil Schambra Stevens is a former CMO turned leadership coach, supporting mid-career creatives, marketers, and strategists to balance wellbeing with high performance. With nearly 30 years of C-level experience at global brands including Levi’s, Heineken, ASICS, and Polaroid, he has led international teams and built high-performing cultures across Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Today, through his work at Mercury Jam Coaching, Neil helps individuals and teams feel seen, heard, and valued in their careers. He is the author of A Bad Hand Played Well and a strong advocate for “Actionable Kindness” as a foundation for sustainable success.
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Nicolette Lazarus
Womanship Founder & Chief Connection Officer
Speaking in the fireside chat
Behind the Smile: The Untold Stories of Burnout in High-Functioning Women
Womanship is a platform connecting women with trusted health and wellbeing professionals across the many areas that shape their lives.
Rooted in a Connected Holistic Health approach, it recognises that women’s experiences don’t exist in silos, from emotional and physical health to career, relationships, and major life transitions.
Nicolette’s work explores the real, often unspoken pressures women carry, and how these can quietly lead to stress and burnout. Through this, she creates safe, supportive spaces where women can Share more and Worry less.
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Paola Elena Brignoli
Leadership Coach & Workplace Wellbeing Expert
Hosting the workshop
The Human Performance Equation: Building Sustainable Ambition Without Burnout
Paola Elena Brignoli is a certified coach and Workplace Culture & Leadership Expert who founded the Human Performance Equation, a framework that bridges the science of performance with the realities of modern organizations.
Her work integrates neuroscience, positive psychology, and organizational research to help individuals build sustainable ambition, teams collaborate with clarity and trust, and organizations create cultures where people can thrive without burning out.
She has partnered with 35+ global organizations to cultivate workplaces where people can belong, perform, and lead at their best.
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Pri Wiegandt
Connector & Community Builder
Speaking in the panel
Burnout, Decoded: Why It Happens, Who It Affects, and What We Keep Missing
After 11 years working in corporate across four countries and two burnout cycles, Pri learned that stress can be managed with something we all have access to.
Website | Instagram | Substack
Samantha Verouden
Holosomatic & Trauma-Integrative Therapist
Hosting the workshop
Holosomatic Breathwork for Burnout Release
Samantha Verouden is a trauma-integrative therapist and Somatic therapist specializing in burnout, stress, and trauma healing. She combines trauma-informed therapy with advanced somatic practices to support the release of stored tension and the rewiring of deeply held patterns, leading to greater aliveness and a profound reconnection with the body.
Her work guides clients out of survival mode into deep, root-level healing and back to their truth and inner power, to create lasting change in themselves, their careers, and their relationships.
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Theresa Baeumel
Mindful Leadership Coach & Psychedelic Guide
Speaking in the panel
From Overdrive to Regulation: How Nature and the Body Heal Burnout
Theresa Baeumel brings together global HR leadership and somatic, holistic practices to explore a new way of relating to burnout.
Her work centers on reconnecting to the body and recognizing the patterns that
keep us stuck. At the intersection of structure and intuition, she creates space for a more sustainable way of being and working.
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Yann Ghisalberti
ADHD Coach & Neurodivergence Specialist
Speaking in the panel
The Hidden Burnout Cycle in Neurodiversity: ADHD, Focus & the Cost of Coping
Yann Ghisalberti is a certified ADHD coach specializing in the unique, often invisible burnout cycles experienced by neurodivergent minds.
Having navigated the corporate world as an undiagnosed AuDHD professional, resulting in five severe burnouts, he knows firsthand why traditional coping strategies only deepen exhaustion.
Yann now empowers his clients to stop fighting their own brains, using radical self-compassion as the foundation for sustainable recovery and purpose.
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Zoi Mylona
Psychologist
Therapist
Hosting the workshop
Rebuilding Yourself After Relocation: Identity, Loss & Preventing Burnout
and speaking in the panel
Beyond Burnout: What Needs to Change in Mental Health, Work & the Way We Live
As a Psychologist and Certified Therapist, Zoi is adept in the integrative model of systemic therapy.
Her approach is characterised by a profound sense of empathy, unwavering professionalism, and a strict adherence to ethical standards.
Zoi embraces diversity and her practice is reflective and friendly to groups of people vulnerable to exclusion (e.g. migrants, LGBTQI+, disability…).
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