Irene Anggreeni
TEDx Speaker & Mental Fitness Coach helping tech leaders build mentally-fit, high-performing teams that deliver great results without burnout
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Irene Anggreeni is a TEDx speaker, mental fitness coach and strategic consultant, known for her dedication in empowering leaders and their teams towards sustainable success.
A lifelong learner, she graduated PhD in Industrial Design Engineering and clinical Master in Dance Movement Therapy before becoming a coach.
She brings a unique blend of analytical and creative approaches to leadership development. Originally from Indonesia, Irene now calls Rotterdam home, where she lives with her husband and their cat.
In her free time, she enjoys Argentinian tango and swimming. She's also a passionate Toastmaster where she keeps honing her storytelling skills.
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"Catch The Saboteur" - A Team Game for Tough Conversations
Our everyday communication is often what makes or breaks the team. When communication breakdowns happen and are left unresolved, the lingering tension can fester into interpersonal conflicts, which erode trust, harm collaboration and damage team performance.
This workshop invites participants to reflect, explore and practice a healthier response by playing "Catch The Saboteur". Through a role-play game, they practice spotting the inner voices sabotaging their conversations and responding calmly, clearly, and without blame.
Participants build real-life leadership skills, while being energised through interactions in the game. They will gain:
- Deeper self- and other-awareness, by recognising the saboteur patterns undermining communication effectiveness
- Practical intervention tools, through learning a structured, repeatable practice to manage stress and emotions in real-time high-pressure conversations
- Experience a tested framework of trust, vulnerability and mutual accountability to help them build cohesion in their own team
Great fit for teambuilding days, leadership programs, and conference workshops.
Ideal for leaders of any level of experience who want to establish psychological safety, mutual accountability, and positive team culture. It can be founders, engineering managers, scale-up teams, or even sales and management teams.
Speaker at Level Up Event 2026 Upcoming
TBD - Building Burnout-Proof, High-Performing Startup Teams
While the usual story about growth is about getting funding, growing the team, and scaling the business, this session makes the case that the founders’ mental fitness is the most defining factor. The audience gets actionable insight, practical tools and a roadmap for sustainable performance.
LEVEL UP is built for founders who want to move faster. Expect sharp keynotes, hands on sessions and real conversations that push your startup forward. Everything is designed to sharpen your pitch, strengthen your product and accelerate your growth.
Keynote at Rotterdam International Welcome Event Upcoming
Mental Fitness, Belonging, and Building a Life in Rotterdam
Helping internationals feel at home in Rotterdam
The Welcome to Rotterdam event is organized by Rotterdam International Center to provide newly arrived internationals the tools, knowledge, and connections they need to feel at home in the city. Each edition covers a different theme relevant to life in the Netherlands – from housing and taxes to culture, healthcare, and more.
Toastmasters Leadership Institute - District 59 Division B
“Catch The Saboteur” and Help Your Team Thrive!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12qMMVJQcf8nYnfQ3FqXlwQAW2FJidJMT/view?usp=sharing
An interactive, engaging 60-minute workshop that helps boost real leadership skills through gamified problem-solving in realistic scenarios. It's reflective and actionable, with participants actively contributing and building relationships with one another.
Team Building Workshop at Toastmasters District 59 Officers Training (Online)
Building Team Cohesion towards Healthy Success
(Experience mental fitness, not just the theory)
https://youtu.be/8hDt4Iteq3Q
This workshop empowers the leaders in District 59 (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France) with experiential and practical tools to build their self- and other-leadership. What the session delivers: strengthening self- and other-awareness, enabling safety, trust and stronger collaboration in a cohesive team.
Workshop Leader at Toastmasters District 59 Conference 2026
Difficult Conversations Made Easier with "Catch The Saboteur" Game
Even skilled communicators break down under pressure. Left unresolved, these moments erode trust, create resentment, and damage collaboration. "Catch The Saboteur" creates a safe space to practice empathetic, blameless communication. Through guided role-plays, you'll identify the unconscious voices — the Critic, Controller, Hyper-Rational — that hijack your words in heated moments. You'll leave with awareness and practical tools to intercept conflict before it escalates.
Ready to "Catch The Saboteur"?
To get the best experience in this workshop, a suggested pre-work is to discover your own top saboteur in this 5-min quiz:
https://positiveintelligence.com/out/assessment
Speaker at LeadDev Amsterdam Meetup
3-Step Mental Fitness for The Engineering Minds: Boost Performance and Happiness
With the cognitive load inherent in their work, engineers are typically smart and analytical. When they’re not mentally fit, they are prone to mental stress – anxiety, frustration, or unhappiness – as they handle work and life challenges, which impacts their performance and happiness. Yet, when it comes to well-being, the “keep pushing” mentality may put self-care in the back seat.
Speaking from her software engineering background, certified therapist and mental fitness coach Irene Anggreeni makes this conversation more accessible by engaging in a tailored language that connects to an engineer’s daily experience. Mental fitness, based on breakthrough research in positive intelligence, is our capacity to face any challenges with resilience and positivity.
By blending her story of mental health struggles with professional insights in neuroscience-backed mental fitness, Irene will share actionable strategies and techniques covering:
Why your smart, analytical mind can work against you
How mental fitness can upgrade your mind’s operating system
Knowing when to intercept thought patterns that sabotage your performance
Practical techniques to boost productivity (and happiness) while your codes compile
The audience will walk away with a systematic approach to performance, happiness … and a spark to treat their mental fitness at least as important as their physical one.
Mental Health Panelist at EU Startups Summit
On May 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing together around 2,400 founders, investors, and startup ecosystem leaders for two days of networking, inspiration, and knowledge-sharing.
Building a startup can be exciting, but it also comes with intense pressure. Long hours, uncertainty, constant decision-making, and the demands of leading a team can take a real toll on founders and employees alike. As conversations around wellbeing become more central to sustainable company building, mental health is no longer something startups can afford to ignore. In our panel “Mental Health Tips for Entrepreneurs and Startup Teams Under Pressure”, we will explore how founders and teams can better recognise stress, build healthier habits, and create more supportive working environments.
The discussion will look at the realities of mental health in fast-paced startup environments, the challenges entrepreneurs and teams face under pressure, and practical ways to support resilience, balance, and long-term well-being while building and scaling a company.
Special Leadership Workshop at Toastmasters Breda
“Catch The Saboteur” – A Game to Train Your Brain for Tough Conversations
In-person 60-minute workshop incl. breakout discussions and Q&A
Special Leadership Workshop at UPS Toastmasters (Online)
“Catch The Saboteur” – A Game to Train Your Brain for Tough Conversations
An online 45-minute workshop incl. breakout discussions and Q&A
Pitch Winner & Speaker at TEDx Eindhoven 2025
From Coding to Coping: My Mental Fitness Journey | Irene Anggreeni | TEDxEindhoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RklU9K9RLl0
In this TEDx talk, I share how mental fitness can transform high‑pressure tech careers from burnout to sustainable performance and happiness.
What if your mind had an update button? Former software engineer turned therapist, then coach, Irene Anggreeni shares how to debug depression, anxiety, and self-doubt using a framework anyone can learn: Monitor. Debug. Update. With her engineering background, Irene will guide us into a new perspective on mental well being.
Table Talk Host at LeadDev Berlin
Effective mentoring
Balancing resilience and innovation velocity
Workshop Leader at Toastmasters District 59 Conference 2023
What's the deal with Mental Health and Leadership?
Why should you care about mental health?
1 in 5 people experience depression in their lifetime, nearly 2 in 3 business leaders struggle with mental health conditions.
Looking at these stats, you likely know someone dealing with mental health issues.
In this workshop, you will learn what it takes and experience what it's like to create a safe space together. I'll bring my unique expertise from the neuroscience of body-mind-emotion, mindfulness, and creative therapy.
To support you as a leader, you need to hone skills such as self- and other-awareness. This workshop will help you discover how to apply these skills to build trust with others. So we can engage in honest conversations about mental health.
Each one of us can contribute positively. Let's start in this safe space to explore how.
Panel: Reinvent Yourself at Upstream Festival 2021
As part of the Talent Day, I was invited to be one of the speakers on "Reinvent Yourself".
Are you on the right track in life? A big yet important question. Together, we looked for YOUR answer to this question during this session. We aimed to support you in finding your “why” and offer a moment to look inwards, a moment to reinvent yourself. Professionals who successfully pivoted their careers shared their personal stories. These stories touched upon their drivers for change, deepest dreams, and a dose of resilience.
Breakout Session at Venture Café Rotterdam
Virtual Taste of Dance Therapy to Feel at Home
Moving and living in a new country could create adaptation stress. Even more during a pandemic. How can we release our stress and feel our power again? Let's explore that in a playful embodied way of dance therapy. Join us from wherever you are!
Irene Anggreeni is a licensed dance therapist, soft skills trainer & wellbeing consultant. She has reinvented herself multiple times creatively, after coming to Europe as an engineer/academic expat. All while navigating cross-culture barriers, thriving after depression, and building her community. Join her in creating wellbeing using a playful embodied way!
Breakout Session at Venture Café Rotterdam
Expats Connect on Mental Health - Breaking The Stigma
As an expat Irene had overcome culture shock, existential crisis and depression. What have helped her survive? How did she finally manage to build a sense of home? She shares her story, life lessons & insights on mental health to empower you.
About Irene Anggreeni
Irene is a licensed creative arts therapist, mental health practitioner, and wellbeing consultant. With an entrepreneurial and R&D background, she is highly versatile on the strategic, hands-on, as well as therapeutic level. She helps individuals and organisations solve their challenge by focusing on their wellbeing. Result-oriented and people-focused. Authentic human connection is what drives her. She's an outgoing introvert and a public speaker in mental health awareness.
Irene Anggreeni
TEDx Speaker & Mental Fitness Coach helping tech leaders build mentally-fit, high-performing teams that deliver great results without burnout
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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