Chatting with Dr. Lies Wouters

A few days ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Lies Wouters. She is fascinating. Dr. Lies and I spoke about everything, and I later showed her a pair of wooden shoes my parents brought back from the Netherlands in 1964. She was amazed I still had them! Dr. Wouters’ bio is below: Dr. Lies Wouters is an international positive psychology expert, work and organizational psychologist, advisor, trainer and team coach, based in the Netherlands. In addition to the comprehensive research, she has conducted about happiness and resilience, she assists organizations in the areas of: mental health; optimal functioning; motivation; and positive communication. Her mission is to contribute to reducing the number of burnouts in the Netherlands by helping to make people within organizations healthier and happier; and ensuring that they thrive in psychologically safe team environments. In 2018, Dr. Wouters published her first book in Dutch, Hoe Dan (So Then How) together with a businesswoman who wrote about how she overcame life’s struggles. In the book, Dr. Wouters responds to her explaining the psychological theories of what helped and why. Dr. Wouters is the founder of her own international business, OMG! which stands for tailor-made leadership and specializes in providing leadership training and coaching. For more than ten years, Dr. Wouters and her team of fellow experts have been facilitating online and onsite leaders and professionals with business related workshops. Their work is underpinned by their professional knowledge that each individual is unique and each organization is unique. Thus, they only deliver custom work. Dr. Wouters is a PhD student at the Open University in the Netherlands where she is researching the topic of psychological safety. The title “Drs” stands for doctorandus which is Latin for he/she/they who should become a doctor. Her first article about psychological safety will be published in the spring of 2022. When Dr. Wouters is not pursuing her professional career and helping other people to thrive at work, she loves to spend time with her husband and two children. She enjoys being outside in nature at all times of the year. She also loves dancing and enjoying good, healthy food with family and friends. Dr. Lies Wouters can be reached at the following social media sites: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouterslies/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUuVPYu3LUqeeajG7g5N0Jw Website: https://www.omgadvies.nl/en/