Dr Adrian Medhurst is a speaker, author, educator, and thought leader specialising in workplace wellbeing, stress, burnout, performance psychology, wellbeing science, mindfulness and innovation. He’s the co-founder of Benny Button, an inspiring business helping organisations drive performance through understanding and enhancing employee wellbeing.

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With over 15 years spanning corporate consulting, university lecturing, and dedicated ongoing scientific research, study and practise. Adrian's mission by day is to help people and forward-thinking leaders focus on what it takes to optimise wellbeing and performance. He has worked across the globe and across industry sectors with organisations including REA Group, CBA, Victoria Police, NSW Govt, Bluescope Steel, Nike, BHP, Kimberly-Clark, Abbvie, Australia Post, NAB, AMP, Lululemon, Asahi-Schweppes, Red Cross, Swisse, Fairfax, Coles, Medibank, SBS, Qantas, Novartis, BP, Sugar Australia, Heinz, Fosters, and more.

Adrian has authored the book "Meditate on This: The Science of Mindfulness”, which explores the science of the proven impact of an effective meditation practice, in terms everyone can understand and appreciate.

Also by day (as well as by night), Adrian is a devoted husband and father to his pride and joy little girl and boy. It is this kind of juggling act - what he calls 'work-life agility' - that Adrian is passionate about when it comes to supporting his clients to be at their best.

Situated in the heart of Byron Bay, Australia, Dr. Adrian Medhurst is more than a seasoned keynote speaker—he's a beacon of insight into pivotal topics essential for contemporary workplaces, particularly in the wake of the Covid era. Delve into his expertise and glean valuable insights on vital subjects like Leading Wellbeing and Stress Mastery for your upcoming event. Explore more wellbeing and performance keynote topics below.

Keynote and Workshop Guidebook 2023

High-impact experiences to inspire learning, facilitate dialogue, develop skills, & promote action!

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The real cost of stress in our workplaces.

In this short video, Dr Adrian Medhurst breaks down the statistics of how much stress is costing our workplaces and why it is so important to draw our attention to it.

This keynote was filmed at the 2018 ThinkTank Corporate PA Summit.

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  • Stress Mastery

    Embrace stress for resilience and growth. Discover the transformative power of stress - a potential catalyst for resilience and enhanced performance. Learn to harness stress positively through practice, building resilience and driving personal growth.

  • Leading through burnout

    Provide leaders with an evidence-based blueprint for quickly forming a strategic and immediate response to these mission-critical priorities in 2023 and into the future.

  • Leading Wellbeing

    Show leaders where wellbeing fits into the flow of leadership and work, and how to strengthen team and organisational wellbeing culture and performance outcomes.

  • Wellbeing Fundamentals

    Designed to inject energy, positivity, and hope into your people’s life and work. People identify why wellbeing is important to them and reflect on their unique strengths and challenges. People get connected and inspired to integrate self care practices into work and life and take action for their wellbeing.

  • Mindful Action

    Identify modern-day traps, habits, and biases that weaken mindful awareness and attention, and how mindful practice strengthens mindful action, wellbeing, and performance in work and life.

  • Optimising Collaboration

    Explore how to optimise collaboration in teams and relationships, and the challenges to building and sustaining a high-performing team culture in the modern age.

  • Grow for good

    One of the biggest challenges people face when investing in wellbeing is establishing and sticking with routines. This session shows people what it takes to grow for good using the latest behavioural science tools and techniques, and how to navigate relapse along the growth path.

  • Psychology Safety

    Learn how everyone in the workplace has a role to play in establishing, strengthening and sustaining psychological safety through trust, communication and collaboration.

  • Workplace civility and bullying

    Develop a culture of psychological safety where people surface and address inappropriate behaviours in the workplace.

  • Innovation

    A science-based innovation process designed for groups to identify challenges and opportunities and generate innovative ideas that can be pitched, shortlisted, and planned for implementation and impact.

  • Recharge well

    Investing in routines that conserve and boost resources for sustainable high performance and wellbeing.

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What People Are Saying

 

“I cannot recommend Dr Adrian Medhurst highly enough, either in the capacity of a keynote speaker or as a facilitator. Adrian really takes the time to get to know the audience and tailors his messages and content accordingly, and he is a delight to work with from an event organisers perspective. Even better still, the feedback from delegates is always exceptional.”

— Cass Brownlow Davies, THINKTANK MEDIA

“This was one of the most actionable training sessions I have ever participated in. Clear take outs, a helpful tool kit and directly applicable to our business.”

— Tara Melky, Principle Consultant, FORETHOUGHT