Lucy Hone Speaking Topics

• Three Secrets of Resilient People

  Based on Lucy’s TED Talk with over 9 million views, this keynote unpacks the three evidence-based strategies used by the world’s most resilient people

  • those who manage to face the worst and somehow keep going. It’s warm, moving, and deeply practical.

  Takeaways from this keynote:

  • Reframe resilience with confidence and hope

    • a new understanding that humans are biologically wired to adapt to change, that struggle and difficult emotions are a normal part of coping, and that resilience does not require things to feel easy.

  • Build mental agility via three proven strategies they can apply immediately

    • helping them respond more flexibly to disruption, manage emotional load, and keep moving forward during periods of sustained pressure, change or uncertainty.

  • Feel better equipped to support resilience in others

    • whether leading teams, working with students or clients, or caring for people navigating ongoing challenge or loss.

  Themes:

  • Resilience
  • Coping with loss
  • Inspirational leadership
  • Navigating change

  Perfect for:

  • Teams faced with disruption
  • Educators
  • Health and emergency responders
  • Community leaders
  • Membership Groups & Associations

• The Hard Truths That Make Better Leaders

  Loss and personal struggle are often avoided at work, but leaders who own their hard truths, don’t lose credibility, they build it. This talk challenges outdated leadership ideals and reframes adversity as a source of strength, trust and connection.

  Takeaways from this keynote:

  • Build leadership credibility through authenticity – showing why today’s new workforce values real, human leaders who can acknowledge challenges and lived experience without losing authority or professionalism.
  • Handle hard conversations without over-stepping or over-sharing

    • giving leaders clear guidance and greater confidence in how to address loss, struggle, and uncertainty at work in ways that strengthen trust and psychological safety.

  • Use adversity to strengthen trust and performance

    • reframing challenge and disruption as opportunities for post-traumatic growth, leadership lessons, and the cultivation of more resilient teams.

  Themes:

  • Emotional intelligence
  • Team trust
  • Post-traumatic growth
  • Thought leadership

  Perfect for:

  • Senior leaders
  • People managers
  • HR professionals
  • Exec teams & boards

• Modern Loss: Tools for a New Era of Care (Grief 101)

  Grief is universal, but our approaches to it are often outdated or missing altogether. This keynote introduces Resilient Grieving™

  • a science-backed, practical framework helping health and care professionals feel more confident supporting people through loss.

  Takeaways from this keynote:

  • Reframe grief with clarity and confidence

    • replacing outdated and potentially harmful myths with new insights from modern bereavement science that show us what really supports healthy adaptation to loss and what gets in the way.

  • Gain immediately useful tools from the Resilient Grieving™ framework

    • increasing confidence in how to respond, what to say (and not say), and how to support people through loss without feeling awkward, overwhelmed, or out of their depth.

  • Improve the quality of care, connection, and support they offer – whether working with patients, clients, colleagues, or communities experiencing loss, trauma, or disruption.

  Themes:

  • Resilient Grieving™
  • Post-traumatic growth
  • Grief Literacy
  • Human connection

  Perfect for:

  • Health care & coaches
  • Palliative care
  • Counsellors
  • Funeral industry
  • Mental Health Awareness Week/Month
  • HR/P&C

• Resilient Mindsets: Thriving Through Uncertainty & Change

  In a world of constant disruption, this keynote equips teams with practical, science-backed strategies to navigate uncertainty and challenge by adopting a Resilient Mindset.

  Dr Lucy Hone draws on three decades of robust research to rethink what it means to cope well

  • and shows how mental agility equips teams to approach change constructively, and support each other through the unknown with confidence and strength.

  Themes:

  • Collective resilience
  • Psychological safety
  • Hope & optimism
  • Attention management
  • Psych Flex & mental agility

  Perfect for:

  • Workplace teams
  • Educators
  • First responders
  • Corporate groups
  • Exec teams & boards

• Post-Traumatic Growth: The Surprising Science of Human Recovery

  We’ve all heard of Post-traumatic Stress. But far fewer people know about its more hopeful counterpart, Post-Traumatic Growth. In this keynote, Dr Lucy Hone introduces a research-backed approach to understanding how hardship can become a catalyst for insight, strength and renewed purpose.

  Perfect for audiences navigating disruption, or those who support others through it, this talk extends one-sided trauma narratives with science, story, and the possibility of growth.

  Themes:

  • Recovery science
  • Human potential
  • Growth after trauma
  • Hopeful leadership

  Perfect for:

  • Health professionals
  • Coaches
  • Educators
  • Community leaders
  • Change agents
  • Disaster recovery & First responders

• What’s Your Why? A Panel on Meaning, Purpose and Belonging

  What makes work meaningful

  • and how can we help others find it? This dynamic session opens with insights from the new science of meaning

  • unpacking coherence, significance and purpose—followed by a panel conversation exploring how people from diverse backgrounds find meaning in their work.

  Designed especially for Associations and Membership organisations, it invites you to reframe work as something deeper than a job title or pay cheque.

  Themes:

  • Meaning at work
  • Personal values
  • Intergenerational understanding
  • Belonging in the workplace

  Perfect for:

  • Membership associations
  • Industry conferences
  • Values-led organisations
  • Gen Z

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