Dr Kristy Goodwin

Recent Microsoft research suggests that 62% of employees and 66% of managers in Australia are experiencing burnout. Within the education sector, the prevalence of stress and burnout has been steadily increasing. Burnout, specifically ‘digital burnout’, is the chief threat to modern work. One of the chief contributing factors to burnout is unsustainable and unhealthy digital habits that many of us have adopted. Digital burnout not only compromises teachers’ and school leaders’ physical and mental health and performance, but poses significant financial costs and retention risks to schools too.

This keynote arms teachers and school leaders with science-backed solutions to counteract the always-on, distracted, digital culture that has led to many teachers and school leaders experiencing ‘digital burnout’. Delegates will understand how their digital habits, both professionally and personally are fuelling their stress, why rest is vital for their performance and the simple, science-backed micro-habits that educators can easily embed into their workdays to counteract digital burnout.

Participants will explore:

- How the increased digital intensity of our days is leaving many of us stressed, distracted and burnt out.

- The subtle but significant ways that our digital behaviours have introduced micro-stressors to our days and are shaping our biological blueprint.

- How our neurobiological needs dictate that your brain and body needs peak-performance pit-stops (the science underpinning rest).

- Science-backed protocols that will prevent digital burnout.

- A menu of micro-habits to ensure that we structure our workdays to suit our neurobiological needs.

Are you on the verge of declaring email bankruptcy? Suffering from constant Zoom-gloom, Teams-tiredness??? Are your tech habits leaving you feeling stressed, distracted and exhausted? You’re not alone.

Rates of burnout are steadily on the rise. Why? Our tech habits are completely incongruent with how our brains and bodies are designed… our Human Operating System (hOS).

This keynote will help you to dominate your digital distractions and stop screens from adding to your stress. Learn brain-based strategies to tame your toxic tech-habits and thrive in the digital world.

In this keynote, participants will explore:

How our digital habits, both professionally and personally, are leaving many of us feeling OUSTED- overwhelmed, under the pump, stressed, time poor, exhausted and distracted;

How common digital behaviours have added micro-stressors to our days;

The ways our tech habits have eroded some of the biological buffers that once helped us manage our stress
and attention spans;

Brain-based protocols that enable us to work with rather than against our biological blueprint to thrive in the digital world;

A menu of micro-habits that are realistic, yet research-based so we can tame our tech habits.

Session Overview
Participants will complete the What’s Your FQ Assessment? during the session to enable Dr Kristy to tailor the keynote and/or masterclass to your organisation’s specific needs and to give your delegates powerful insights into how their digital behaviours may be sabotaging their performance and wellbeing.

Delivery
This keynote can be delivered on-stage or online.

There’s no denying that school leaders and educators’ digital demands have increased exponentially over the last few years. The tentacles of technology extend in to all parts of our lives today being integral to both our professional and personal lives. However, our digital habits are having a profound impact on our physical health and mental wellbeing. This presentation equips schools leaders and educators with science-backed solutions they can embed to optimise their wellbeing in the digital landscape, without suggesting that you revert to a #digitaldetox, cancel your Netflix subscription, or aim for ‘inbox zero’ (all of which are outdated and unrealistic strategies).

In this keynote, participants will explore:

- Their current DIGITAL WELLBEING habits and consider the impact they’re having on their wellbeing, health and performance.

- How their DIGITAL BEHAVIOURS are leaving them feeling stressed and exhausted.

- Why it’s challenging to FOCUS in the digital world, that’s constantly vying for their attention (and the impact of constant digital distractions on stress and focus).

- The impact of our constantly-connected lives on our MENTAL WELLBEING (how our tech habits are affecting our sleep, stress and exhaustion levels) and a menu of micro habits we can embed to protect our mental wellbeing.

- The consequences of being tethered to technology on our PHYSICAL HEALTH (especially our vision, hearing and musculoskeletal health) and a menu of micro-habits to protect our basic biological needs.

Decoding the neuroscience of peak-performance in a hybrid world

Hybrid working is here to stay. This keynote will provide you with a brain-based blueprint to make hybrid work, work.

Dr Kristy will outline the neuroscience and psychology about how to optimise our workdays for peak-performance in a hybrid world. Kristy shares brain-based insights and strategies to help you and your team build productive work arrangements. Learn how to create ways of working that work with our brains and bodies (our neurobiology) , to yield the benefits for both employees and organisations.

In this keynote Dr Kristy helps employees and leaders better manage their digital workload with brain-based, yet realistic strategies to ensure their productivity is optimised and wellbeing prioritised in a hybrid setting.

In this keynote, participants will explore:
Brain-based tactics to optimise your workday (whether you’re in the office or at home);
Science-backed solutions to optimise your physical workspace to boost your productivity and wellbeing;

How to build a fortress around your focus to stop digital distractions from putting a dent in your productivity;

Three critical biological markers that help you boost your productivity ; and

Why your hybrid team must establish your digital guardrails to optimise performance.

Session Overview
Delegates will get access to my Chronotype Assessment & Report and Digital Burnout Barometer prior to the presentation to provide powerful insights and enable Dr Kristy to tailor the session to your organisation’s needs.

Delivery
This presentation can be delivered as a stand-alone keynote, or as a part of a series of virtual masterclasses, or as a half or full-day workshop.

Many educators and professionals working with students have reported a decline in students’ attention spans. In this practical keynote or professional learning workshop Dr Kristy outlines why attention management is THE most critical 21st Century learning skill.

Kristy will explore:
- How students’ attention spans are being hijacked by technology and the impact on their LEARNING, PHYSICAL HEALTH and MENTAL WELLBEING.

- The concept of ATTENTION SPANS and why this will be the superskill of the 21st Century.

- The MYTH OF MULTITASKING and why the brain requires MONOTASKING instead (sharing simple experiments to conduct with students to highlight this point).

- The three board reasons why students are vulnerable to DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS.

- Practical strategies to implement in the classroom to help students manage their attention (and subsequently improve learning outcomes and mental health benefits).

As knowledge workers, the technologies that are integral for our work, have also been designed to hijack and hold our attention. We’re now living in an attention economy. To achieve peak-performance in the digital landscape, the most critical skill we can cultivate is focus. In fact, our FQ (focus quotient) is THE superskill of the 21st Century- a skill that’s more important than our IQ and EQ.

However, our focus is under threat, amongst the alerts and notifications and constant pings and dings that now permeate our days and put a dent in our productivity.

This keynote has been designed to help employees and executives better understand the impact of digital distractions on their productivity and wellbeing. Attendees will develop a repertoire of strategies and micro-habits they can easily apply to their workday and personal lives to ensure their digital behaviours support peak-performance.

In this keynote I’ve distilled the latest neuroscience, psychology and technology research into bite-sized, science-backed strategies.

In this keynote, participants will explore:

Why our FQ focus is the superskill of the 21st Century;

The ‘digital superstorm’- the three colliding factors that explain why technology hijacks our attention;

The significant ways that digital distractions dent their productivity & wellbeing;

How to map the cadence and contours of their workday to their neurobiological needs t to maximise their
focus;

A menu of (realistic) micro-habits to optimise their focus;

Session Overview
Delegates will have access to Dr Kristy’s What’s Your FQ? Assessment and Chronotype Assessment tools before the presentation to enable her to customise the presentation. Participants will be armed with a menu of micro-habits which they can apply to their professional and personal lives to tame their tech habits.

Delivery
This presentation can be delivered as a stand-alone keynote, or as a part of a series of virtual masterclasses, or as a half o full-day workshop.