KEYNOTE SPEAKING TOPICS
FOR BUSINESSES & SCHOOLS
Dr. Mark Williams delivers compelling keynotes that transform workplace culture by addressing mental health, communication, brain health, and interpersonal connection. He provides actionable strategies for fostering mental well-being, enhancing communication skills, and building resilience. His insights into brain health focus on optimising cognitive function and productivity. By promoting open dialogue and empathy, Dr. Williams helps organisations create supportive, connected environments where employees thrive and collaborate effectively.
OUR SUPERPOWER IS HUMAN CONNECTION
There is a lot of talk about 21st Century skills we will need to thrive in the future. These skills usually include “soft” skills like collaboration, cooperation, teamwork, communication, curiosity, creativity and leadership. One essential component of these and many other 21st Century skills is connection. Our ability to socialise and connect has catapulted our species to phenomenal heights of innovation, through collaboration and specialisation. This ability is also our best defence against mental and physical health issues.
This presentation will explore how our brains evolved to facilitate connection and why working with others is our most valuable asset. Dr Mark will offer practical advice on building strong relationships and explain why these connections are vital for our health and well-being. By deepening our understanding of human connection, we can harness its power to work together toward a brighter future.
HOW TO HACK YOUR HABITS
Looking for ways to hack your habits and become more productive? Our modern lifestyle and constantly evolving technology plays havoc with our habits and routines. Many modern devices are designed to capture your attention and drive you to distraction. They are hacking your normal habitual behaviour. This is affecting productivity, resilience, curiosity, creativity, innovation, and mental health.
Habitual behaviour is an adaptive mechanism that evolved to allow us to concentrate on other things. Think about all the things you do every day without concentrating on them – making coffee/tea, driving to work, showering, brushing teeth. checking your email etc. How and why our brains are able to do this is fascinating, and understanding this provides simple ways you can change habits to become more productive both at home and at work.
In an informative and challenging course, Dr Mark covers:
- The neuroscience of habits
- Why good habits and patterns are important
- How bad habits can impact your productivity and health
- Why bad habits form when change happens
- How modern technology affects our habits
- How to get your time and productivity back
Dr Mark will discuss many helpful tips and strategies that we can all easily implement to establish good habits in our lives and get bad habits under control.
DOING DIGITAL DIFFERENTLY
This program can help address the many problems that smartphones and other devices are creating. Productivity, learning, resilience, curiosity, tolerance, and emotional intelligence are all declining whilst stress, anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Participants will learn about the evolution of modern technology and the applications that influence so much of our lives. They will also learn how our brains learn and adapt, and why modern technology can be addictive and potentially harmful. They will hear about why it is important to disconnect from their devices to improve their well-being. Most importantly, they will learn simple strategies to get back the time and motivation to connect, socialize, innovate, contribute, and live in the real world.
In an informative and challenging presentation, Dr Mark covers:
- The rise of the devices.
- The neuroscience of learning and memory, and why some devices are damaging.
- The neuroscience of addiction, why some devices are addictive and how to avoid it.
- The neuroscience of empathy and why some devices are having an impact.
- The relationship between screen use, depression and suicide.
- Ways to minimise the potential effects.
Dr Mark will end with a series of helpful tips and strategies that we can all easily implement to get device use under control.
NEUROSCIENCE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE
The most important asset in any organisation is…the brains of your people!
In the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in our understanding of the human brain, how it functions and learns. Many of the older ideas and strategies around learning and memory have been shown to be incorrect and recent findings paint a very different picture of the human brain and its capacity for productivity, innovation and creativity. We have the opportunity to learn and adapt our practices to incorporate many of these findings into new strategies.
In an informative and challenging presentation, participants will learn about the recent findings in neuroscience and how they can be adapted in your organisation:
- How the brain works
- How memories are formed and their role in innovation
- Attention and its vital role in communication, collaboration and productivity
- The importance of connection and creating an in-group
- How modern lifestyle and technology affect our productivity
- How to get your time and productivity back
The focus of this presentation is on how we can use neuroscience to implement strategies that improve learning, memory, productivity, innovation and, most importantly, health and wellbeing
NEUROSCIENCE OF LEARNING
In the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in our understanding of the human brain, how it develops and learns and how best to teach students. Many of the older ideas and strategies around learning and memory are incorrect, and recent findings paint a very different picture of the human brain and its capacity to learn. Teachers have the opportunity to learn and adapt their teaching practices to incorporate many of these findings into their own teaching strategies. This presentation will cover many of the recent findings and discuss the new concepts and ideas around the neuroscience of learning.
Participants will first learn about the recent findings in the neuroscience of learning including:
- The importance of understanding neuroplasticity and how the brain works.
- The role of connection and how it can be nurtured.
- How memories are formed.
- Hebbian learning and how it can be facilitated.
- Attention and its vital role in learning and memory
The focus will be on how teachers can implement strategies to improve learning, memory and most importantly, deep understanding. The presentation will involve practical examples as well as demonstrations to facilitate understanding and implementation.
Keynotes Speaking for business and schools
TRANSFORM YOUR WORKPLACE AND SCHOOL WITH DR. MARK WILLIAMS
With a proven, practical, and science-based approach, I help businesses and schools bring out the best in their people. I’ve worked with thousands of professionals, leaders, students, and teachers eager to understand how the brain works, optimise performance, and maintain brain health in workplaces and classrooms.