✪ Koos Meijer

Trainer: Brain performance, focus, and vitality | 24/h work | sleep, fatigue, and sustainable employability

Netherlands

About

Are you looking for ways to bring performance, health, and wellbeing the next level? Do you want to optimize brain potential, focus, and vitality? As a human factors psychologist, I train consultants, lawyers, healthcare professionals, athletes, and offshore operators to enhance all the above-mentioned. Our workshops ‘Brain training – Work Smart and Recover Effectively' and ‘Work Hard, Sleep Hard’ will help you and your colleagues to stay fit, focused, and healthy. Specialized in: Human Factors, focus optimization, brain health, shift work, sleep enhancement, fatigue, and light treatment. www.km-humanfactors.com In the following 2-minute video I explain the method I apply: https://vimeo.com/288753500

Experience

  • Founder at KM Human Factors Engineering
    Feb 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 6 mos

    I help high-performing teams optimize their brain potential through science-backed training on focus, sleep, and cognitive resilience. What I offer Brain training workshops: 'Work smart and recover effectively' Understand how your brain focuses, processes information, and recovers. This interactive workshop identifies your cognitive strengths and vulnerabilities, providing practical techniques to deepen focus, master deep work, and unlock your full cognitive potential. - Clients include: Rabobank, ING, Van Lanschot, Allseas, Houthoff. Sleep & energy optimization: 'Work Hard, Sleep Hard' Sleep quality directly impacts mental performance, physical health, and safety. I introduce evidence-based enhancement techniques and tools to help you sleep more efficiently, ensuring you wake up sharper, more alert, and ready for peak performance. - Clients include: LUMC, MUMC+, AZ Alkmaar, EY, Transocean. Who I work with I work together with consultants, offshore operators, lawyers, engineers, military personnel, healthcare professionals, and elite athletes, organizations and teams where cognitive performance and safety are non-negotiable. Learn more: www.km-humanfactors.com Watch the method in action: https://vimeo.com/939008657

  • Founder at Somnoblue
    Jun 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

    Somnoblue's mission is to improve sleep, performance, and health by focussing on the power of darkness. Our biological clock and brain function optimally when the evening is free from artificial light, mornings are rich in daylight, and the body can follow its natural rhythm. Creating a pre-bedtime period without blue light is a powerful stategy for improved circadian health and wellbeing. The Somnoblue glasses make this effortless. Wear them 1–2 hours before sleep. Equipped with the most powerful blue-light filter available, they protect your retina from every direction, including ambient room light. Most competing glasses only filter light from the front, leaving your eyes exposed to the light surrounding you. Somnoblue blocks it all, ensuring your brain and biological clock are optimally prepared for deep, restorative sleep. The result? Healthier sleep/wake rhythms, optimal melatonin secretion (the hormone of darkness and a powerful antioxidant), and a perfect 'wind down signal' for the brain. Trusted by the best. Somnoblue glasses are used in many of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands, including LUMC, Radboudumc, MUMC+, Isala, and UMC Utrecht. In elite sports, our glasses are trusted by AZ Alkmaar, KNVB, Feyenoord, Tour de France teams, and Olympic rowing teams. Leading international consultancy and law firms also rely on Somnoblue to help their people wind down more effectively in the evening, because better sleep means sharper focus, improved cognitive performance, and greater vitality.

  • Teacher, Leiden University at Leiden University
    Aug 2011 - Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Lectured seven courses at the department of Psychology. 1: Experimental and Correlational Research (2014) 2: Inferential Statistics (2014) 3: Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics (2013) 4: History of Psychology (2013- 2014) 5: Psychology and Science (2013- 2014) 6: Cognitive Psychology (2013) 7: Introduction to Psychology (2011- 2012) * The Art of Applying Psychology (2020). Assisting Professor Jop Groeneweg during the Master's course 'The Art of Applying Psychology'. During this course, I provided students with feedback and advice on how to write research and business proposals.

  • Researcher HCI Graduate Intern at TNO Human Factors
    Jun 2012 - Jan 2013 · 8 mos

    Traineeship at TNO Human Factors, where I conducted my master’s thesis research. I designed and statistically analyzed an experimental study investigating the effects of multi-sensory feedback on task performance and user experience, with a specific focus on how different types of feedback influence cognitive performance. Thesis research published : http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20804-6_20#page-1

  • Coastal Engineering Internship at Witteveen+Bos
    Jan 2008 - Jul 2008 · 7 mos

    The design of a caisson dam for the Federation Island in the Black Sea near Sochi, Russia.