Julie Lewis

Seasoned Adventurer, Author, C-Suite Resilience Consultant

How To Build Resilience in Business, Sport, Adventuring and Life

• The amazing lessons in resilience Julie learned mountain climbing
• How Julie decided to respond to being widowed at 33
• How adventuring can teach you what is important, and what is not
• how to build resilience in business, adventure, sport and life
• Sometimes the key to handling failure is asking “What else?”
• The importance of keeping openness and flexibility
• The incredibly vital lesson learned on a mountain about “the higher you go, the more you need to lighten your load.”

Karyn Buxman

International speaker, successful author, and pioneer in the field of applied humour.

The Rigorous Neuroscience of Using Humour to Build Resilience

• How to know if you are a vulnerable "Type E” personality
• You can't go to the bank and withdraw lots of money if you haven’t put in deposits
• Listen to all people about resilience - use a myriad of ways and have rituals that ground you
• We get so used to being stressed that we don’t even know we are stressed - sleep, tight shoulder/headaches, angry etc..
• People who use humour have an increase in their immune system - particularly natural killer cells.
• Shift your perspective. The humour is there if you realise it at not
• Look for humour. Everyday - seek humour form another person.
• Accountability buddy - send something everyday to someone. Makes you look for it, then share it.
  
  

Stacey Copas

Created a framework for resilience after overcoming the adversity of becoming quadriplegic at 12-years-old.

How To Grow From Life-Changing Events

• Why you need to build resilience BEFORE you need it.
• Resilience skills open people’s minds so they can actually take in the harder stuff - marketing, sales, contracts etc
• Being vulnerable and opening up allows people to feel safe to do the same.
• Gratitude. Thank you for the opportunity to be who I am, where I am with what i have in this moment in time.
• All we can change is what comes next.
• When someone asks how you are? Think carefully about the words you use - great, amazing, really happy - because those words truly change the way you feel
• People you surround yourself with - and have self awareness and personal responsibility to see how you’re affecting those around you.
• After a life-changing incident - life is not over, it's just different.

Diane Sieg

Expert in Nurse and Physician Burnout & Creating Resilient Cultures in Healthcare

How Unrealistic Expectations Can Cause Huge Stress

• When you are caring for others you MUST care for yourself
• Sometimes it best to ask in tough times “What could I learn about myself?"
• Sleep number is THE number one resilience skill, it makes EVERYTHING better
  Sometimes we are the last person to know how much we need help
• Often things not going as we expect is a massive trigger, and often our expectations are totally unrealistic
• With employees, resilience is a crucial key to retention

Graeme Cowan

One of Australia's leading experts in building resilience who specialises in preventing and treating work related fatigue and stress.

Why You Desperately Need To Find Your "One Thing"

• The importance of talking about "Managing Your Mood" rather than mental health
• The ROI of helping your people be more resilient, and how expensive it is when businesses get their people’s mood slip
• The vital importance of finding the “One Thing” that resets your mood, and to build in time to do it
• Graeme’s experience in experiencing in depression again, reminded him the importance of daily routines
• The importance of leaders speaking about your vulnerable times
• How living an authentic life is important to reducing your stress

Major Matina Jewell (Retd)

Life-changing perspective from the front line of leadership, resilience and change

How To Lead Under Extreme Pressure

• Why resilience is a muscle that can be strengthened
• While we all need to plan, "no plan survives contact with the enemy”
• When you stop you are more likely to become overwhelmed, so keep making small decisions and getting small wins that build the emotion and momentum.
• Why you should practice getting out of your comfort zone.
• The power of keeping perspective
• It’s so important for leaders to value people trying new ideas and failing.
• Make sure you reward all the small steps and victories.

Kristin Neff

Associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin's department of educational psychology, leading expert in Self-compassion.

How To Embrace The Transformative Power Of Self-Compassion

• How to treat yourself as you would a friend who is struggling - with care, kindness, patience and support.
• Why self-compassion is far better than self-esteem
• Why self-compassion is so powerful in business - helps us learn from our failures, grit, improves motivation,
• How shame shuts down the learning centres.
• 3 parts to self compassion: Kindness, a sense of connectedness, and mindfulness
• How to have an “Inner Ally" instead of an “Inner Bully"
• Humour and self compassion - we can see our shared humanity - we're all crazy.
• Perfection, thinking we need to be special and above average take self too seriously.
• Knowing that this pain will pay off. What can I learn from this?

Catherine DeVrye

Expert on Resilience & Change, Award Winning Business Speaker

How To Turn Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

• It’s vital to understand that everyone faces tough times sooner or later
• When we are in a dark place we think we’re the only one
  How hope helps us cope in tough times
• Understanding that sometimes it’s the little things that hit you
• Combining positive attitudes with positive actions
• Never be too proud to ask for help, or to offer it
• Sometimes you can’t get over it, but you do have to get on with it

Eileen McDargh

Change & Radical Resilience Expert, International Business Speaker

How To Create A Supportive Network Around You

• Why Leaders need to manage their own resilience and "recharge their own batteries" if they're going to help their people
• The importance of understanding that everyone does resilience differently
  Just because you're the leader, doesn't mean you have to be "The Hero"
• The importance of giving your people what THEY need, and not to treat everyone the way you would like to be treated in times of stress
• How to notice other people's symptoms of overwhelm when they are very different to your own