Meet Dr Kristy Goodwin

Using neuroscience and technology to power-up performers in the the digitally-demanding world.

A speaker used by large corporations on the topic of productivity in a digital world, Dr Kristy’s keynote insights and inspiration are used by elite corporate clients in Australia and internationally.

For executives, business leaders, human resources managers and staff who are always switched on, but rarely powered up, Dr Kristy provides the keys to lead, live and work more effectively and by government organisations.

She shares practical brain-based solutions to power up employees and leaders in the digitally-intense world they now operate in. Kristy arms audiences and clients with the latest evidence-based strategies to decode the neuroscience underpinning peak performance in the technological era.

Kristy’s on a mission to leverage and decode the neuroscience of sustainable peak-performance so that employees, leaders and entrepreneurs can go from floundering to flourishing in the digitally-demanding world they now live and work in life. She challenges the dominant paradigm that you need to pay a success tax by sacrificing your physical health, mental wellbeing and/or relationships in the pursuit of success: you don’t need to burn yourself out, experience chronic stress, live in a perpetually exhausted state to be successful. Living a life of high-performance doesn’t need to equate to being a low-res version of you.

When you work with, rather than against your neurobiology, you can experience success without sacrice. You can live a high-res life. Her tools for peak-performance in an age of AI automation and digital innovation play a critical role in the modern workplace to optimise eciency, facilitate communication and collaboration and drive both productivity and wellbeing. Dr Kristy is the author of the award-winning book Dear Digital, We need to talk and Raising your Child in a Digital World, and is a former educator in public and private schools. Dr Kristy also lectured at Macquarie University and University of Notre Dame, and she has a PhD on the impact of digital technologies on the human brain and body.

Dr Kristy has conducted numerous evaluations and research studies for the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, and is regularly called on by the media to translate the latest research about how our digitalised lives are shaping our wellbeing, productivity and performance.

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Keynote Topics & Workshop

POWERED-UP PERFORMERS

DECODING THE NEUROSCIENCE OF PEAK-PERFORMANCE IN THE AGE OF AI

This keynote arms delegates with the science to power-up their performance in the digitally demanding world we now live and work in. Power-up your top-performers with practices and protocols grounded in the latest neuroscience and cutting-edge neuro-technology. We’re living in a time of lightning-fast digital transformation. As that pace increases, so too are rates of chronic workplace stress and burnout , resulting with AI and digital advancements radically changing how we work and live in powered-down performers. What the latest scientific research tells us is that many of the widely accepted digital behaviours we’ve adopted, are actually counterproductive to optimal human performance and detrimental to our wellbeing. AI has created a world in which we’re now able to per form at levels that actually POWER UP rather than BURN OUT our workforce. The only thing that stands in our way? Learning how to leverage technology and AI in ways that support, rather than drain, our Human Operating System (hOS) – the ways our brains and bodies are neurobiologically designed to function. This keynote will empower your top-performers to ensure their digital behaviours are compatible with their hOS, so they can catapult their performance and bolster their wellbeing. Equip your people with the neuroscience that underpins sustainable success and peak-performance, so that they don’t have to pay the ‘success tax’ because…

When your people thrive, your business thrives.

In this highly interactive keynote, Dr Kristy will equip your audience with science and (simple) strategies to not only survive, but thrive in this new world of rapid digital acceleration. Dr Kristy will explore the three components in her Flourishing Framework to help delegates understand:

How to build their stress adaptability, so their stress cannot only be managed but can in fact be a catalyst for performance
How to optimise their Focus Quotient (FQ) and build a fortress around their focus, so they can stop distractions from denting their productivity and leverage their power-zone hours (delegates will learn how to optimise the contours and cadence of their workdays according to their unique Chronotype)
Why they need to reframe recovery, by exploring the science that underpins sustainable peak-performance

Dr Kristy will tailor the presentation, based on the aggregated results from her Neuro-Performance Profile Tool that delegates will either complete before or during the keynote. Delegates will leave with a personalised Power-Up Plan identifying the brain-based micro-habits that they’ll apply to bolster their performance so they leave with an actionable, customised plan to power-up their performance.

Fortify Your Focus

“FQ is the superskill of the 21st Century. It’s more important than our IQ and EQ,” Dr Kristy Goodwin.

Amplify Focus Quotient (FQ) in an at tention economy. Don’t let the “pings” and “ dings” dent your productivity. Attendees will learn how to:

identify the chief distractions in your workdays and discover the cost this is having on your productivity
maximise focus in the digitally-demanding world we now work in
optimise your FQ (Using brain-based protocols to bolster attention)
build a fortress around their focus to stop digital distractions putting a dent in productivity

Session overview

Delegates complete Dr Kristy’s What’s My FQ? Assessment and Chronotype Assessment & Individual Report tools before the presentation to provide powerful insights and enable Dr Kristy to tailor the session.

Optimise Your Workday

Brain-based protocols to optimise productivity and sustain wellbeing. Learn how the brain and body function throughout the day to leverage productivity and wellbeing. Organise workspaces, your time and focus according to neuroscience to bolster performance. This workshop will equip y our team with the skills to work and l ive in harmon y with their Human Oper ating S ystem (hOS),which is ho w their brain and body ar e biologically designed to operate so they can flourish in the digitally-demanding world they now l ive and work in. Attendees will explore a menu of micro-habits that will:

reduce the micro-stressors in their days (especially the invisible but invasive digital stressors) and bolster their stress tolerance and resilience so that they can use stress to drive performance and wellbeing;
optimise their focus quotient by understanding how they can set their days up (in terms of their time, energy and physical location) to bolster their focus and productivity;
explore the science of rest and recovery to bolster sustainable performance, mental wellbeing and physical health; and
consider their team’s digital guardrails (these are the digital norms, practices and principles that underpin ho w they work) that will make work, work for them, their clients and their organisational goals.

Session overview

Delegates will get access to Dr Kristy’s Neuro-Performance Profile Tool and Individual Chronotype Assessment & Report prior to the presentation. This will allo w Kristy to tailor each w orkshop according to the results. The workshop will be a combination of information presentation, discussion and hands-on activities. Delegates will lea ve with their own customised Powered-Up Plan which will identify the microhabits that delegates will implement after the event.

Amplify Your Digital Wellbeing

Explore how digital habits and behaviours are impacting physical health and mental wellbeing. Learn how technology tethering affects sleep, stress and exhaustion levels, as w ell as vis ion, hearing and musculoskeletal health. Attendees will learn how to:

harness the power and potential of technology, without it eroding wellbeing
protect their basic biological needs such as sleep, movement and human connection
optimise mental wellbeing and physical health in the age of AI (without proposing delegates do a digital detox or cancel their Netflix subscription)
ensure that wellbeing investments yield greater returns.

Session overview Delegates will have access to Dr Kristy’s Neuro-Performance Profile tool before the presentation to provide powerful insights and enable Dr Kristy to tailor the session.

Powered-Up Women

More women than men ar e experiencing stress and burnout . Explore how the invisible domestic and digital loads, shouldered by many women, have left them feeling overwhelmed and stressed, both at work and home.

In a 2023 Women’s Agenda data revealed 77% of women said they’d experienced burnout in the past 12 months. The State of Workplace Burnout 2024 report revealed that 42% of women, compared to 30% of men, are experiencing burnout.

Attendees will learn how to:

better manage stress and burnout us ing brain-based solutions
optimise per formance in a digit ally-intense world us ing neuroproductivity protocols
leverage the positives of technology to empower each other accelerate gender equality.

Session overview

Delegates will have access to Dr Kristy’s Neuro-Power Profile Tool during the session. Women will leave this presentation with a customised Power-Up Plan by identifying the 1-3 micro-habits they’ll implement to power up their performance.

Just Some of the Clients Kirsty has Worked with

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