About Esther
As an international advisor and speaker, Esther Mollema travels the world to gain knowledge and share her insights on High Performance Organisations (HPO), successful entrepreneurship, inclusion & diversity, and unconscious bias.
Her (inter)national audience is offered a wake-up call, with a unique combination of knowledge, insights, passion, and humour. Esther’s performances are well attended and highly appreciated by people from all organisational levels worldwide.
Esther strongly believes the strength of an organisation lies in the individual differences of employees. She knows better than anyone how to put diversity and inclusion to work for better strategic and financial results.
Esther publishes blogs, wrote four books, shares her expertise on LinkedIn (she is topvoice), and is a regular contributor at TedX, radio, and several newspapers.
TheNextWomen has Esther as one of the most successful and influential female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands.
Manager HT Magazine placed Esther on the 2021 Top 10 list of most searched Diversity & Inclusion experts in Europe.
Many well-known organisations and leading universities have entered into partnerships with Esther on the themes of high performance, diversity & inclusion. She also enjoys working for small to medium-sized organisations that want to make a difference. All clients are served with her inspiration and knowledge to enable achieving long-term innovation, better results, and success.
Esther Mollema (1965) is an alumna of Nyenrode Business University (BBA) and Thunderbird School of Global management (MBA, cum laude). After a rapid career in Germany and the US, she returned to the Netherlands and founded three successful companies:
- Direction, Briefings for Business Leaders Europe (management-development.com) with Marco Schreurs en Muriel Schrikkema
- HPO Center (HPOCenter.com) with Marco Schreurs and André de Waal
- Professional Boards Forum The Netherlands (boardsforum.co.uk) with Elin Hurvenes
Media attention
Interviews with Esther can regularly be heard or read on radio, in newspapers and magazines.
In the case of a report of crossing boundaries behavior, HR must dare to hold up a mirror.” – Interview with PW.
You can read the interview with PW via this link, where Esther and Femke Laagland (Commission Van Rijn) share their sharp insights following the publication of the report on crossing boundaries behavior at public broadcasters. Esther's words resonate powerfully in the...
Interview for cepezeds
Ronald Schleurholts asked Esther for an interview to reflect on the 50th anniversary of cepezed and to discuss the future of both their 'kit of parts' architecture and the company culture, specifically considering whether they are resilient enough in light of...
Some of Esther’s clients
Contact
Please use the form below to contact Esther or call Robert Smit at (+31) 06 54 253 643. He gladly answers any question you may have.