To optimize someone's (his/her) potential without being at the top intellectually, emotionally and physically is impossible!
Companies choose their employees firstly according to their intellectual capabilities or their experience. It seems obvious today that these skills are not sufficient to manage a professional career to its best. The need to perform, the stress, the management of conflicts or team working are examples of everyday's situations which now require different abilities. We want to speak about the emotional capabilities (EQ), which are now recognized as being at least as important than the intellectual capabilities (IQ). Nowadays it is accepted that these two types of skills are essential to progress and to blossom in a professional environment. To be emotionally intelligent does not mean to be cleverer than the others, but it assesses someone's capacity to react and to cope with the events of everyday's life, from both a personal and a professional point of view. It means the capacity to feel someones own emotions and those from the others.
More and more companies have understood the importance of these emotional skills and they entrust jobs involving high responsibilities to the care of persons which are emotionally intelligent.
But what is the use of being intellectually and emotionally performing if the body is not able to keep up with the job? A new requirement adds up to the two previous skills. It is the physical aptitude. Nowadays it is even referred to as the physical intelligence or the body quotient. The aim here is to understand how the body work, what to do to make it stronger, how to supply it with the best possible energy and how manage this energy in order to optimize someone's well-being and performances. A company can only be healthy if his employees are healthy. The fact of "feeding" accordingly someone's energy will allow for better resistance to all types of aggressions, whether these are physical or psychological.
Our diet influences all our skills, whether they are intellectual, emotional or physical. Velital Consult offers a wide range of training courses aimed at enhancing the potential and the performance through the management of a balanced diet. This plays a fundamental role as it feeds the daily performance. In practical terms, improving someone's diet management allows for better efficiency at work, for increased performances and for a better recovery after intensive efforts. An appropriate diet enhances efficiency and focus, reduces down feelings, reinforces the immune system, helps to better cope with stress, refrains irritability, prevents breakdowns and finally reduces absenteeism.
A few kee figures!
- In Canada, the profitability of programmes promoting health at work is estimated worth of between 1.5 to 5.75 dollar for each dollar invested.
- Nearly half of the population does not have enough iron. An iron deficiency leads to weakness, exhaustion and lack of coordination. It accounts for a performance reduction up to 30%.
- A drop of the sugar rate in the blood (hypoglycaemia) increases the reaction time, reduces the speed at which information is processed. It happens when a meal is not taken, which is often the case at work.
- A dehydration of 1% reduces the physical and intellectual performances by 10%, a dehydration of 2% causes a 20% loss of performances, and so on...
- Eating incorrectly may reduce productivity by 20%.
- 46% of the non transmittable diseases are directly linked to feeding. This figure is expected to rise up to 57% in 10 years.
- The cardiovascular disorders amount for 30% of the deaths and they can be prevented by a balanced diet.
- More than one billion people in the world are obese. In the industrialized countries, obesity accounts for up to 7% of the health costs.
- In the USA, the cost of obesity in terms of insurance, absenteeism and other expenses amounts to 12,7 billions of dollars per year.
- The obese workers are twice more likely to be absent from work.

Several studies reveal clearly:
- the link between a healthy diet and a better productivity
- that a wrong diet causes absenteeism, health problems, low spirits and an increase of accidents at work.

After 10 years as Sponsoring & Events Manager for the leading telecom group in Belgium, Véronique Liesse decided to focus on the other pole of her education and training, which is nutrition. She now uses her knowledge of nutrition for the benefit of companies, a professional environment she is fully acquainted with, helping them to increase efficiency and output thanks to the well-being of their employees. This action leads to increasing the potential, the energy and the motivation of people inside the company, which in turn contributes to reduce absenteeism and loss of productivity.

Her education course and training is the following:
- Bachelor in Marketing and Communication (EPHEC, Brussels)
- Bachelor in Dietetics at the Arthur Haulot Institute (Haute Ecole Lucia De Brouckère, ULB)
- University Degree in Sports Nutrition at the Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Paris (Pitié Salpétrière)
- Spezialisation in children's dietetics at the Hôpital des Enfants Reine Fabiola in Brussels
- Degree in nutritherapy (CERDEN, ULB).
Véronique Liesse offers four training courses in either French, Dutch or English:
o Nutrition for a performing brain
o Energy, productivity and motivation through a balanced diet, or how reduce absenteeism
o How to live well and for long?
o Nutrition and shift/night work

These training sessions may be integrated in team building programmes and other specific subjects related to nutrition may be treated upon request. Please contact us for a free discussion about the various options regarding our training courses and workshops.