My mission is to help drive meaningful, lasting change in the lives of children.

Violence—especially against children—is one of the most urgent challenges our societies face. I have dedicated my life to preventing it because violence is not inevitable; it can be prevented. It is our shared responsibility. If humanity can reach the Moon, we can also solve the issues that shape our future.

My purpose is to support committed decision-makers and practitioners in becoming more effective in protecting children and preventing violence. I provide clear, practical, and impact-driven strategic guidance to help create real change where it is needed most.

Values

6 pillars that sustain my work

Empathy

We are all so much more similar than different. We dream, we connect, we suffer, we die. Too many suffer way too much unnecessarily. Prevention based on deep empathy is a powerful engine to take care of humanity.

Kindness

Kindness is our most precious ability as human beings. It is our most effective antidote to so many diseases. As violence is not a given and can be unlearnt, kindness can be learnt and relearnt so that it becomes our most precious and effective habit.

Rigor

Modern violence prevention is based on science, on rigorous evidence that shows which interventions work and which ones do not. We build on 30+ years of research when it comes to mitigating risk factors for violence and its actual perpetration.

Impact

Working on preventing violence is not a job, nor a hobby, nor an option. It is a mission, a results-based mission. When we have lived on a daily basis with girls, boys, women and men who suffer from violence, we can’t let it go. It is a strong drive to make positive and lasting impact happen despite all the obstacles on the way.

Courage

Preventing violence is all about courage as it requires denouncing the status quo and fighting to change unequal societal structures -like patriarchy- that sustain and endorse the use of violence as a way to sustain abusive power.

Humility

Preventing all forms of violence is complex and can easily become overwhelming.

We don’t have all the solutions, yet we know enough to act now. Our responsibility is to take all the measures we know work, co-create solutions with those first concerned, and always act with humility.