Dr Kristy Goodwin

Dr Kristy Goodwin's Biography

Dr Kristy Goodwin - Australia’s leading expert on peak performance in a digital 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 senior 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.

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 live a luminous life. She challenges the dominant paradigm that you need to pay an entrance fee to experience 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 sacrifice. You can live a high-res life.

Her tools for peak-performance in a digital age play a critical role in the modern workplace to to optimise efficiency, 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.

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 screens into practical and relevant information.

Her roster of clients includes Apple, ANZ, AMP, Deutsche Bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Cisco, HSBC, Bank of Queensland, Challenger, Westpac, DLA Piper, Westpac, McDonald’s, Randstad & Sparke Helmore.

To enquire about Dr Kristy Goodwin for your next event contact Helene Greenham directly – helene@platinumspeakers.com.au

Speaking Topics Include

Powered-Up Performers: The Neuroscience of Performance in a Digital Age

This keynote arms delegates with the science to power-up their performance in the digital landscape. When your people thrive, your business thrives. Power-up your top performers with practices and protocols grounded in the latest neuroscience.

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.

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. What the latest scientific research tells us is that many of the widely accepted digital behaviours we’ve adopted, are actually counter-productive to next level performance.

The digital age has created a world in which we’re now able to perform at levels that actually POWER UP rather than BURN OUT our workforce. The only thing that stands in our way? Learning how to use technology in a way that supports, rather than drains our human operating system (hOS) – the ways our brains and bodies are primarily designed to function.

In this highly interactive keynote, Dr Kristy will equip your audience to not only survive, but thrive in this new world of rapid digital acceleration.

Taking audiences on an immersive virtual tour inside their own brains in order to better understand:
How to identify and operate in their unique ‘power zone’, in order to bolster performance and naturally support their wellbeing;
The secret of the latest science underpinning the brain-based micro-habits, that are proven to optimise productivity, manage stress and maximise energy;
Why common workplace behaviours (such as multitasking, virtual meetings and working for long stretches) may be preventing employees and leaders from powering-up their performance and learn simple, science-backed strategies that are congruent with their hOS;
How to build a fortress around their focus, so they can stop distractions from removing the power zones from their day; and
How to create their own Power-Up Plan for sustainable peak-performance in a digital age.

Fortify Your Focus Workshop

Amplify Focus Quotient (FQ) is an attention economy. Don't let the "pings" and "dings" dent your 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.

Audience members will learn how to:

Identify chief distractions

Maximise focus in the digitally-demanding world we now work in

Optimise FQ (brain-based protocols to bolster attention)

Build a fortress around their focus to stop digital distractions putting a dent in productivity.

Optimise Your Workday Workshop

Brain-based protocols to optimise productivity when working in the office or remotely.

Learn how the brain and body function throughout the day to leverage productivity and well-being. Organise workspaces according to neuroscience to bolster performance.

Audience members will learn how to:

Manage focus, enhance productivity and make hybrid work, WORK.

Prioritise tasks to maximise peak cognitive abilities

Use the science of rest and recovery to bolster performance and wellbeing

Identify the three critical biological markers that help boost productivity.

Session Overview

Delegates will get access to Dr Kristy's Chronotype Assessment & Report prior to the presentation.

Amplify Your Digital Wellbeing Workshop

Explore how digital habits and behaviours are impacting physical health and mental wellbeing.

Learn how technology tethering affects sleep, stress and exhaustion levels, as well as vision, hearing and musculoskeletal health.

Audience members will learn how to:

Harness the power and potential of technology, without it eroding wellbeing

Protect basic biological needs

Optimise mental wellbeing and physical health

Ensure that wellbeing investments yield greater returns.

Session Overview

Delegates will have access to Dr Kristy's Neuro-Power Profile Tool before the presentation to provide powerful insights and enable Dr Kristy to tailor the session.

Beat Digital Burnout Workshop

Burnout hurts employees wellbeing and productivity and poses significant financial costs and retention risks to organisations.
One of the chief contributing factors to increasing rates of burnout is unsustainable and unhealthy digital habits. Recent Microsoft research suggests that 62% of employees and 66% of managers in Australia are experiencing burnout while global burnout rates are similar.
Attendees will learn how to:
Identify and prevent digital burnout
Achieve sustainable high-performance using neuroscience protocols
Use peak-performance pit-stops that are backed by the science underpinning rest
Improve the structure of work days.
Session overview
Participants will complete an anonymous Digital Burnout Assessment before the session to provide powerful insights and enable Dr Kristy to tailor the session to your audience’s specific needs.

Powered-Up Women

More women than men are 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.
Audience members will learn how to:
Better manage stress and burnout using brain-based solutions
Optimise performance in a digitally-intense world using neuroproductivity protocols
Leverage the positives of technology to empower each other and 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.