Lieve Hendren
About

Lieve Hendren

pronounced lee-va

Founder of the Joyful Flow Method, an embodied approach to high performance that replaces hustle with inspired productivity.

Lieve works at the intersection of performance psychology and applied neuroscience, helping high-performing women take career leaps without burning out to get there.

Princeton University B.A. ICF Certified Coach Human Potential Institute King's College London Neuroscience Masters Candidate
My story

The more capable you are,
the easier it is to override yourself.

I couldn't believe what I heard on the phone. After years of building a start-up from scratch as the #1 employee, I was cut from the team. Spreading myself too thin across too many projects, I over optimized myself right out of my dream job.

That's when I started applying performance psychology techniques to prioritize time in deep work, and expand my capacity to create. As a consultant inside high-pressure productivity cultures, I recognized a pattern: the more disciplined and capable you are, the easier it is for a busy calendar to override your own energy, intuition, and creative intelligence.

After tucking a heart rate variability monitor behind my ear to test my performance psychology techniques, clients immediately noticed. My career took a leap with nationally recognized clients like AdventHealth, Chicago Public Schools, Coca-Cola, Greater Houston Community Foundation, and Save the Sound. Best of all, I transitioned from 60- to 30-hour work weeks, carving out time on weeknights for passion projects like marathon training, watercolors, and quality time with family and friends.

Lieve Hendren
Expert Topics
  • Productivity & Deep Work
  • Burnout Prevention & Recovery
  • Time + Energy Management for Leaders
  • Philanthropy & Major Gifts
  • Mission-Driven Strategic Planning
  • Creative Consistency
Milestones

A few things
I'm most proud of.

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Writing the book in 9 months, and loving every day of it. I wrote The Joyful Flow Formula in nine months while living the method it describes. Every morning was proof that it worked.
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Building the Planner while managing chronic illness. What began as a one-minute mindfulness practice became the Joyful Flow Planner when my cognitive load lowered so significantly I healed from years of afternoon headaches.
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Performing classical music on global stages. Before using performance psychology at work, I used it to train for opera, which I performed with the Chicago Symphony.
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Interviewing 420+ philanthropists. I use Flow as a leadership skill as a trusted nonprofit consultant and have worked on successful campaigns from $8 to $350 million making incredible impacts on improving lives.
A little more Lieve

Beyond the bio,
here's what actually makes me tick.

Trail running, philosophy, mindful living, poetry, gamifying project management, and (always) my homemade gelato recipes.
If you're into this sort of thing

The assessments,
for the curious.

INFJ
Myers–Briggs

The Advocate. Quietly intense, deeply principled, always seeing the bigger picture underneath the smaller one.

5w4
Enneagram

The Iconoclast. Driven by a need to understand, and to express what's been understood in a way no one else quite has.

Problem-solving · Connecting · Empathy · Learning · Intellectualizing
Clifton StrengthsFinder

Five strengths that explain why I'm equally at home in a research paper and a one-to-one coaching conversation.

Work with Lieve

Two sessions to find
exactly what's blocking your flow.

The Peak Week Intensive is a contained experience: two coaching conversations that give you a personalized performance plan. If you're overwhelmed or know what to do, but aren't doing it, you might be working with a productivity system that wasn't designed for your current goals. Let's adjust that.

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