Jos Dirkx

Jos Dirkx dares to go where others don't and has lived an extraordinary life across fifteen countries. Through impactful keynotes she brings this worldly experience to life on stage, seamlessly connecting her audience to must-know, global trends around great ideas, inclusion, education, and tech.

Her keynotes - with feedback like: “Thank you. A life transforming hour…” - have inspired thousands around the world. Her experience as award-winning founder, author and World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer make her an engaging and inspirational highlight at any event. Dirkx sets the bar for the new world of work – where creativity, connection and collective intelligence drive our brightest breakthroughs when we need them most.

For the past 20 years, Dirkx helped global companies and communities unlock their potential by clearly demonstrating why teams stop innovating and how to keep ideation alive. Underpinned by an emphasis on the concept of range, Dirkx empowers her audience with what it takes to turn creative intelligence and inclusive practices into a driving force for profit and purpose. In her talks for Fortune500 leaders and non-profits alike, Dirkx includes practical take-aways to ensure the audience leaves feeling inspired for change with clear take-aways and practical use cases.

Dirkx speaks with passion and authenticity about critical global trends, bringing to the forefront the essence of consistently high-performing teams in a rapidly changing world. In her third book, "Why Great Ideas Die", Dirkx features insights from global thought-leaders, in addition to ground-breaking research and real-life experience on mastering our cognitive and somatic capacity for relentless ideation. Her work and research help leaders and teams make better, faster, and more creative decisions.

Alongside her team, she received a letter of recognition from Former First Lady Michelle Obama for her work across girls' health. Dirkx was selected as a 50 Global Heroes Ending Violence Against Children (alongside others like Hilary Clinton and Maria Eitel), a 2019 Woman To Watch, a Women Deliver and Gates Foundation Young Leader, a Nike Girl Effect Challenge winner, a Microsoft YouthSpark winner, an Ashoka Changemaker, and has spoken at global events from the TEDx Stage, to Glowork in Saudi Arabia, to World Economic Forum: Women in Leadership in Dubai. Her work and research have been awarded and featured in publications worldwide. Dirkx and her team have built solutions and products reaching over 85k users globally and have recently received a grant from the Dutch Government to design learning solutions for change in education.