Michael Kortekaas inspires organizations with powerful keynotes on leadership, work happiness, and mental resilience, offering practical tools to enhance personal and team performance.
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With full energy, Michael gets you thinking and into action mode!
Robin de Jongh, Managing Director
Detective Financial Crimes (DFC)
Energize your organization with keynote speaker Michael Kortekaas. With over 150 appearances annually, he delivers high-impact sessions packed with practical tools on leadership, work happiness, and mental resilience. His engaging keynotes empower individuals and teams to embrace change, manage stress, improve focus, and perform at their best in today’s demanding business environment.
Keynote Speaker Michael Kortekaas is a leading voice in work happiness, mental resilience, and high-performance leadership. With over 150 keynote appearances each year, he is known for his high-energy delivery, practical tools, and transformative impact on individuals and organizations alike.
Michael’s expertise lies in helping leaders and teams understand how the brain works under stress, how to manage attention, and how to develop mental strength to perform at their best. His background in performance psychology and habit change equips audiences with real-world strategies they can immediately apply, boosting resilience, focus, and motivation.
Whether speaking to executives or entire organizations, Michael’s sessions are designed to activate, engage, and inspire. He teaches how to turn pressure into performance and how to cultivate a culture where people thrive. His powerful storytelling combined with interactive techniques leaves a lasting impression that translates into measurable results.
Michael is also the author of Discover Your Mental Strength, a practical guide to managing stress, tension, and pressure in today’s fast-paced work environments.
If you are looking to create lasting behavioral change and energize your people with actionable insights, Book Michael Kortekaas for your event. His keynotes will help your organization grow stronger from within, building resilience, enhancing leadership, and fostering a culture of sustainable success.
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With full energy, Michael gets you thinking and into action mode!
Robin de Jongh, Managing Director Detective Financial Crimes (DFC)
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Wow, I’m bursting with energy! Michael has been an inspiration for me today, as well as for many others. I could listen to you all day! Thank you.
Yagmur Kol - KYC / DFC Analist ABN AMRO
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I have known Michael for years - besides being an outstanding presenter and trainer, I have plenty of examples from our collaboration that he is also a great example of applying mental resilience in real life.
Mikkel Hofstee - CEO Lifeguard
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Michael provides so many hands-on tools and insights that you’’ll find yourself thinking about them every day!
Quirine Pleyte - Owner Peak4, Enabling performance
Keynote by Michael Kortekaas:
As a speaker, Michael is evaluated as energetic, authentic, refreshing but above all as someone who can activate people. In his sessions, he gives the audience tools to change their habits and behavior and to see that fitness underlies it. He does this by telling a powerful story with few slides but surprisingly simple insights, reflections and tools that anyone can use.
One of his oft-used sayings; 'that what you do, you become good at' encompasses the core of an inspiration session. If you whine and complain a lot, that's what you get good at! But if you learn to deal with fear, disappointment and setbacks, you will develop willpower and perseverance. It's paradoxical but “just doing” is one of the big keys to real change. The trick is just to start (small).
The three major themes Michael can influence with Mental Power are:
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