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SLEEP INTELLIGENCE

Els Van der Helm

The High-Performance Blueprint for Sharper Thinking and Leadership

For savvy optimizers, health and wellness enthusiasts, and overwhelmed leaders of all kinds, who are seeking practical, science-backed strategies to boost their energy and performance.
Drawing on cutting-edge research and years of experience working with high-performing professionals, Dr. Els van der Helm unveils the profound impact of sleep on our cognitive abilities, emotional resilience, and leadership potential. Using the author's six-step frameworkQQCCRR (Quantity, Quality, Chronotype, Consistency, Routines, and Resilience)readers will become sleep ambassadors, establishing sleep positive cultures and transforming their lives. Readers will discover their chronotype and how it applies to chronotherapy. They will also learn how to align their sleep with their natural rhythms; optimize REM sleep for enhanced emotional regulation and creativity; and master the art of strategic napping to recover from demanding weeks.

Dr. Els van der Helm did her research at the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences and at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the effect of sleep on cognitive performance. As a Fulbright scholar, she also studied the impact of sleep on the brain and performance while pursuing her PhD in psychology at Berkeley, before becoming a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Van der Helm's work has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Wired. She is frequent keynote speaker for organizations like Google, Sony, Spotify, and Deloitte. Her network boasts the likes of Arianna Huffington, Nir Eyal, Kim Scott, and Matthew Walker who was her PhD advisor and featured her work in his bestselling book, Why We Sleep. While that book opened our eyes to the importance of sleep, SLEEP INTELLIGENCE is the long-awaited follow up. This groundbreaking new book brings a more nuanced view on individual sleep needs, more proactive advice, and, rather than emphasizing anxiety around the lack of sleep, it reframes sleep as an opportunity.
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Published by Dutton Books

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