Barbara van Lodensteijn is a business psychologist and the founder of Vision Aligns.

Her passion is working with leaders across the world who are making a positive difference. With a background in social studies and business psychology Barbara has worked in diverse settings including with vulnerable kids in crisis, inmates in maximum security prisons, with social enterprises, corporations and more.

"What struck me most in what I had witnessed over the previous 20 years was the enormous waste of amazing human gifts, time, information, and money. It was as if the heating was on full blast with the window wide open. I fully understood why founders and people felt drained." As she set out to do something to change that, the first thing she met with was -- failure. She tells the story of her beginnings here.