It's time to introduce our judges to you, our experience expert Cora Postema kicks off.

I am Cora Postema. Working as an organizational consultant at a large consultancy when my husband was in 2009 had an infarction in the brainstem and became very handicapped as a result.
That moment gave a big turn to our lives. I resigned, started writing and gave presentations about our experiences in healthcare. A few years later I started the 'Speaking caregivers’ because we felt that there was too much talk about informal carers instead of with carers. The emancipation of carers became my theme. From there arose in 2016 the Informal Care Awards, where informal carers present an award to the person (for example healthcare professional) who they feel most supported by.

In 2017 I founded the together with Annette Stekelenburg Ministry of Life on, focused on a life-wide view of people with problems based on the experience that the compartmentalised system of government only removes people further from themselves. My mission: A society in which everyone is able to take good care of themselves and others!

When assessing the cases, I will pay attention to the (potential) its effect on the society of my mission.

We also asked Cora if she herself would like to share a brilliant failure with us, the following came out:

I see my whole life as a brilliant failure. Through trial and error I struggle my way through the world. I try to learn a lesson from every stone I bump into, or adjust my path to it. Sometimes things happen to me, totally unforeseen. Like my first pregnancy, my divorce, a resignation, my partner's stroke. So I don't believe in manufacturability, I am guided by learning. I feel happy about that and that's why call me now: Miss Luck.