#53 | Jamila van de Voort | "Leading with heart"

#53: Leading with heart in a world built on head!An open conversation with Jamila van de Voort, founder of ChangewithJamila, whose journey moves from early survival into a grounded vision for a more human way of working. After more than a decade in change and transformation roles she saw how strategy fails when people feel unseen. Her own life taught her what fear instability and hypervigilance do to a child and how resilience becomes a way of navigating the world. All of that shaped The Love Strategy: a framework built on empathy openness resilience and collaboration.Jamila grew up between cultures and homes, often carrying responsibilities far beyond her age. That sensitivity became both her burden and her gift: the ability to walk into a room and sense exactly what is happening beneath the surface. Later she walked the long path of infertility and IVF, found her own way through it, and became a mother of two daughters she now sees as her greatest joy. Her work is not theoretical. It is lived experience translated into a way of leading that honours emotion, truth and human connection.Deep dive talking points:👉🏾 The Love Strategy: a human-centred way of working built on empathy openness resilience and collaboration;👉🏾 Survival and sensitivity: how instability shaped her ability to read people and patterns;👉🏾 Infertility and resilience: reclaiming her path after years of IVF;👉🏾 Turning wounds into leadership: transforming hypervigilance into grounded presence;👉🏾 Heart-to-heart conversations: why safe connection is the real catalyst for change;Nuggets of empowerment:🙌🏾 You can rise from survival into creation when you learn to listen to your body🙌🏾 Hardship shapes you, but your response is where your power begins🙌🏾 Empathy is not soft, it is courageous and transformativeJamila’s empowering quote:🙌🏾 “If our world had even one percent more empathy, we could create a whole new planet”Books mentioned;📚 Bob de Wit: Strategy an international perspective;📚 Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations: human-centred ways of working;Where in your work or life are you still leading from the head and what might open if the heart was allowed in?Connect with Jamila:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamila-van-de-voort-77996a2/ Company website: https://www.changewithjamila.nl A word from our sponsor:Great strategies don’t fail because of process they fail when behavior doesn’t align. Neotopia helps teams turn awareness into lasting change through behavior that moves people forward: https://neotopia.nl