Dr Kristy Goodwin

Simple solutions to survive working at home with kids & teens.

The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have ushered in permanent and significant changes to how we work, whilst simultaneously trying to manage kids’ and teens’ remote learning and fretting about their increased screen time.

This masterclass provides guilt-free advice for working parents struggling with the demands of working remotely and home schooling kids. Dr Kristy helps working parents ditch the guilt, grief and guesswork associated with kids, teens & screens and arms them with simple solutions to manage kids’ screen time during lockdowns... without reverting to banning the iPad, or unplugging the gaming console.

DR KRISTY WILL EXPLORE:
- Why we need to stop FOCUSING on how much SCREEN TIME our ‘screenagers’ are acquiring each day during lockdowns and the most critical BOUNDARIES we can establish instead;
- Realistic, brain-based strategies to support REMOTE LEARNING;
- Simple strategies and tools to help keep kids and teens SAFE whilst ONLINE;
- How to MAXIMISE your (fractured) work schedule, with NEURO-TACTICS and tips to boost FOCUS;
- Healthy DIGITAL HABITS to protect kids’, teens’ and adults’ physical health and mental wellbeing whilst learning and working online.

Attendees will be armed with a comprehensive range of simple solutions so they can work at home with their kids, teens, pets and partners and keep their sanity and stress intact.

Science-backed solutions to help your team thrive online

Research suggests that 60% of knowledge workers have experienced burnout during the pandemic. This is a threat to not only employees’ physical and mental health and performance, but poses significant financial costs and retention risks to organisations too. One of the chief contributing factors to burnout is unsustainable and unhealthy digital habits.

There’s no denying that our digital load has increased exponentially as we’ve shifted to remote and hybrid work. Our digital practices are leading to digital burnout.

This keynote arms delegates with science-backed solutions to counteract the always-on, distracted digital culture that has led to many knowledge workers experiencing digital burnout. Delegates will understand how our digital habits are fuelling our stress, why rest is vital for our performance and the micro-habits that employees can embed into their workdays and the digital cultures that can counteract digital burnout.

Dr Kristy will explore:

• How an INCREASED DIGITAL LOAD is adding to the micro-stressors in their life (and leading to digital burnout)
• How some of our common tech habits are eroding the BIOLOGICAL BUFFERS that once protected us from stress;
• Why your brain and body needs PEAK-PERFORMANCE PIT-STOPS and the 3M framework to beat burnout;
• Science-backed solutions to ensure their ‘NEW WAYS OF WORKING’ are congruent with how their brains and bodies work best online;
• MICRO HABITS to ensure that we structure our workdays to suit our neurobiological needs; and
• Our NEUROBIOLOGICAL NEEDS DICTATE why rest and recovery is essential in a digital world for ideation, performance and wellbeing

Session Overview
As the inaugural members of the world’s first truly digital workforce, we’re creating the future of work together. We are defining norms, habits, and best practices in the digital context. This presents an enormous opportunity for knowledge workers: rather than defaulting to assumptions grounded in conventional wisdom and outdated, industrialised work practices, let’s use this moment to let science guide us

DELIVERY
This keynote can be delivered on-stage or online

The science behind rest and re-charging in an always-on digital world.

This presentation explains the biological constraints of the human brain and body, operating in a constantly connected, busy digital world. Organisations, teams and individuals looking to achieve peak-performance in a digital environment must work and recover in ways that are congruent with your biological needs. We simply cannot outperform our biology.

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

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

Through this highly practical presentation attendees will learn:

• Why UNPLUGGED, DISCONNECTED TIME is vital for our physical health, mental wellbeing and creativity;
• Why leaders and organisations need to stop using ‘BUSY’ AS A PROXY FOR PRODUCTIVITY and what to focus on instead;
• What science tells us are the 6 ELEMENTS of effective REST and RECOVERY; and
• The 3 TYPES OF BREAKS that every high-performer needs to schedule in their calendar (before Zoom meetings).

Session Overview
Participants will be armed with a menu of strategies and micro-habits they can use to turbocharge their productivity and wellbeing.

DELIVERY
This is typically delivered as a virtual masterclass. I’ll share simple solutions to some of the common tech troubles facing high-performers in the digitalised workplace.

Borders & behaviours that support peak-performance in a digital age.

There’s no denying that we’re tethered to technology, for our professional and personal lives. This is having a profound impact on our physical health and mental wellbeing.

This presentation equips participants with science-backed solutions they can embed to optimise their performance in the digital landscape, without having to revert to a #digitaldetox, or ignoring your inbox.

Kristy will explore:

• Why we feel digitally overwhelmed and suffering from ‘infobesity’ from pings, alerts and
notifications (our brains and bodies aren’t biologically wired for information onslaught);
• Why it’s challenging to FOCUS in the digital world, that’s constantly vying for our attention;
• The impact of our constantly- connected lives on our MENTAL WELLBEING and micro-
habits we can embed to protect it; and
• The consequences of being tethered to technology on our PHYSICAL HEALTH (sleep,
vision, hearing and musculoskeletal health); and
• A menu of (brain-based) micro-habits that can be embedded into our professional and
personal lives to support our MENTAL WELLBEING and PHYSICAL HEALTH.

Session Overview
Delegates will be armed with a range of simple, brain-based solutions and a menu of micro-habits so they can work online without sacrificing their mental wellbeing or physical health.

DELIVERY
This presentation can be delivered as stand-alone virtual masterclass, as part of a series of masterclasses, or as in-person workshop in your workplace, offsite or conference.

Thanks to advances in neuroscience and psychology we know more than ever about the brain and how we can achieve peak-performance. However, we need to map this knowledge to our workdays, especially in a digital context, with distributed teams.

In the Flourishing Remotely presentation I help employees manage their workload with research-based, yet realistic strategies to ensure their productivity is optimised and wellbeing prioritised.

Through this highly practical presentation Dr Kristy provides brain-based solutions so attendees can:
• Apply a four-step system to PLAN their WORKDAY as they work from home, or in a hybrid approach;
• Use key BIOLOGICAL MARKERS to maximise their FOCUS and OUTPUT at prime times of the day;
• BUILD A FORTRESS AROUND their FOCUS to minimise unnecessary DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS; and
• Recognise the importance of DIGITAL DISCONNECTION for peak performance.

Delegates will be armed with a range of pragmatic solutions and a menu of micro-habits so they can work remotely without sacrificing their productivity, mental wellbeing or physical health. This can be a stand alone keynote, or part of a half or full day program.

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. Focus, amongst the alerts and notifications and pings and dings that put a dent in our productivity.

This presentation 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.

I’ve distilled the latest neuroscience, psychology and technology research into bite-sized, science-backed strategies. Through this highly practical presentation attendees will learn:

-Why ATTENTION MANAGEMENT is the super skill of the 21st Century;
-The three reasons why TECHNOLOGY HIJACKS their attention;
-The significant ways that DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS dent their PRODUCTIVITY & WELLBEING;
-How to map their WORKDAY to their CHRONOTYPE to maximise their PRODUCTIVITY; and A range of strategies and micro-habits to OPTIMISE their FOCUS.

Participants will be armed with a menu of strategies and micro-habits they can use to turbocharge their productivity and wellbeing.

This can be a stand alone keynote, or part of a half or full day program. I’ll share simple solutions to some of the common tech troubles facing high-performers in the digitalised workplace.

Decoding the neuroscience of peak-performance in a hybrid world.

The era of toiling from 9-5, five days a week in the office is now a relic. Hybrid working arrangements are here to stay. In fact, it’s a paradigm-shifting moment in time. An opportunity to create ways of working that work with our brains and bodies (our neurobiology), to yield the benefits for both employees and organisations. Yet most organisations are missing the opportunity. They are too focused on ‘flexible work’. They are more interested in who is online and who isn’t. What they really need to focus on is ‘productive work arrangements’.

This keynote will provide you with the blueprint to make hybrid work, work. As your organisation redesigns every facet of how work gets done, this session will offer the guiding principles and practices that will unlock the potential of your people. It will show you how to create ways of working that work with our brains and bodies (our neurobiology), to yield the benefits for both employees and organisations.

Through this highly practical presentation attendees will learn:

• BRAIN-BASED TACTICS to optimise your WORKDAY (whether you’re in the office or at home) based on their BIOLOGICAL BLUEPRINT;
• How to build a FORTRESS AROUND YOUR FOCUS to stop DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS from putting a DENT IN YOUR PRODUCTIVITY;
• Why PEAK-PERFORMANCE PIT-STOPS are vital for PRODUCTIVITY and WELLBEING; and
• Why your hybrid team must establish your DIGITAL GUARDRAILS to optimise performance.

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

DELIVERY
This can be a stand alone keynote, or part of a half or full day program, or delivered as a virtual masterclass.

Raising ‘screenagers’ who throw techno-tantrums when you digitally-disconnect them, or remove their digital appendage is no mean feat. Parents and carers today are feeling confused and concerned about raising their child or teen in the digital landscape.

There’s so much conflicting advice.
This presentation provides parents and caregivers with research-based yet realistic strategies to protect their children and teens’ digital wellbeing and learning as they spend more time online. As a mum, I understand the myroad of digital dilemmas you facehow much screentime is safe? When do I dunk them in the digital stream and give them a phone or console? How do I keep them
safe? Why are they so distracted online?

Through this webinar parents and caregivers will learn:
• A simple formula to determine healthy SCREEN TIME limits for ‘screenagers’ (& permission to lower the bar during home isolation);
• The FIVE essential BOUNDARIES that parents must set with their children and teens to ensure that their time online supports their PHYSICAL HEALTH and MENTAL WELLBEING;
• Why children are infatuated with digital technologies and why they throw TECHNO-TANTRUMS when asked to switch off;
• How the brain LEARNS ONLINE and simple strategies to promote FOCUS and avoid DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS as they learn remotely; and
• Why DIGITAL DISCONNECTION is critical for your child’s PHYSICAL HEALTH & MENTAL WELLBEING.

Parents will be armed with a range of simple, science-backed solutions that doesn’t involve ‘digital amputation’.

This can be a stand alone keynote, or part of a half or full day program. I look forward to helping your organisation or workplace help parents to better understand and manage their screenagers’ digital world

We’re spending more time than tethered to technology- for both work and leisure. It’s imperative that we foster healthy and sustainable digital behaviours to ensure that our physical health and mental wellbeing are supported in a digital world that’s constantly vying for our attention.

In this presentation, Kristy equips attendees with science-backed solutions so they can thrive online.

Through this presentation Dr Kristy provides science-backed solutions so attendees can:
• Assess their DIGITAL WELLBEING according to the FOUR PILLARS OF DIGITAL WELLBEING to identify areas for improvement;
• Apply the FOUR PILLARS of DIGITAL WELLBEING to their work and personal lives;
• Explore a range of MICRO-HABITS they can implement to protect their PHYSICAL HEALTH and MENTAL WELLBEING - their sleep, vision, hearing and musculoskeletal health and ;
• Consider a variety of MICRO-HABITS they can utilise to ensure their ProDUCTIVITY is supported, not stifled through their DIGITAL BEHAVIOURS.

I’ll share some of the common digital dilemmas facing high-performers in the digitalised workplace and arm delegates with a range of micro-habits so they can support their mental wellbeing, physical health and productivity in a digital landscape. This presentation can be a stand alone keynote, or part of a half or full day program.