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Founder & Author The Legal SHIFT® | Legal strategist and Board-Level strategic advisor for law firms & PSF | Legal Transformation Executive | Lecturer
PERSONAL MILESTONE
My most important milestones are often not professional. Becoming a mother is the milestone that stands above all others — it shifts your focus from yourself to the question of what you want to model for others.
Professionally, graduating with highest distinction as a working student while also being a caregiver was an important achievement. My time at Stanford, where I received the Impact Award and later became a Course Facilitator, confirmed that you can stay true to your own compass even when others do not yet see the path.
The launch of The Legal SHIFT — both the book and the ecosystem around it — marked the beginning of bringing a long-held vision to life through a collective, academy, and advisory work.
Eve Vlemincx
BOOK
I read a lot, so I don’t really have one favorite book. Some books belong to a particular phase of life, and afterwards I can let them go again.
As a teenager, I read the book “I’d Be Crazy Not to Buy New Shoes”, which left a lasting impression on me. I no longer remember all the details, but it was about a woman with cancer who sharply highlighted the relativity of life.
Later, other books shaped me. Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, and classics such as Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, have permanently influenced the way I think about decision-making.
DAILY INSPIRATIONS
For me, the small things in life are truly the big things. My children are my greatest source of inspiration — they remind me every day who I want to be and what I want to model for them.
I also draw a lot of energy from nature, the sea, a good book, and inspiring conversations with people who challenge existing frameworks. I believe that a day without learning is a day not lived, whether that learning comes from conversations, observations, or new perspectives.
Places like Stanford inspire me not because of the name, but because of the ideas, energy, and conversations they create.
ART
He shows that what we see is not necessarily what it is. He questions what seems self-evident and plays with perception and reality. That intellectual game fascinates me. I love art that challenges us to look differently and question our assumptions.
Earlier this week I was at the Court of Appeal in Antwerp, in the renovated old courthouse. The artwork by Denmark in the entrance hall represents the stability of the law in stark contrast with a fragile reality. I find that tension fascinating: the idea of order and certainty versus the complexity and fragility of real life.
Perhaps that is what inspires me most about art: it makes visible what lies beneath the surface.
BAG PICKED
I love the combination of functionality and elegance. As a busy woman and mother, everything needs to work — practical, organized, and elegant. For me, those things are not contradictory. Style and pragmatism can perfectly go together.
Just like in my work: clear, functional, but with attention to detail and aesthetics.
