‘Faalkracht' (The Power of Failure) | Jacquelien de Savornin Lohman | TEDxAmsterdamED

Her story (in Dutch) is about a career with many twists and turns. In a nutshell: lawyer, university professor, youth help services (University of Amsterdam), senator (D66 party), and now cabaret performer.
Besides the successes, it of course went wrong at times where the twists and turns took over. But that’s something that happens to everyone who is striving to reach something. See these twists as a benefit and a strength in life: it gives new energy, creates space, gives power to failing.
In her inspiring and energetic talk – peppered with music and spirited humour - Jacquelien de Savornin Lohman (82) shows the truth in this power of failing, something that every HR-guru preaches these days.

Jacquelien de Savornin Lohman was a lawyer, university professor, and Dutch senator. After her retirement, she decided to continue to educate herself, and followed courses in quantum theory, cabaret, and belly dancing. She began her new career as a cabaretier in 2004, now performing all over the Netherlands and occasionally also abroad.

Born in the Dutch Indies in 1933, Jacquelien has always followed her own unique path. After studying and working as a lawyer for a number of years, she moved her career into teaching and became professor of andragogy, and later of pedagogy and educational sciences, at the University of Amsterdam. During this tenure she joined the Dutch Eerste Kamer as spokesperson for the D66 party.

Today, Jacquelien has been described as the oldest cabaret performer in the Netherlands; a title she has not given herself because for her, age is only a number. Her lust for life prevents Jacquelien from feeling old.

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