Introducing Dr Denise Quinlan

Dr Denise Quinlan is acknowledged internationally as a world-class facilitator who tackles difficult subjects with her trademark humour and compassion, generating hope and practical action to inspire and develop leaders.  A global thought leader in sustainable, future-focused wellbeing and resilience, Dr Quinlan synthesises insights from her multi-disciplinary background to develop solutions to the urgent issues facing work, family, and community.

Committed to developing leaders who can build a better future, Denise equips leaders with the tools to ‘put your psychological house in order’, develop Collective Resilience in your organisation, and empower Inclusive Redesign, to enable adaptive and innovative responses to future challenges.

Co-founder of the Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, Guest Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland,  and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Denise regularly presents at global conferences,  teaches online and face to face, and authors books and articles. An internationally published academic researcher, Denise’s latest research, the Making Work Better project, shares insights from leading organisations succeeding at making work better for their people, offering five keys to progress.

Originally an equity analyst and dealer-broker on the London Stock Exchange, and a consultant with Deloitte and KPMG in Europe and NZ, with degrees in international economics and politics, Denise’s corporate background informs her work with senior executives across the globe, including as an award-winning guest lecturer at globally ranked IE Business School, Madrid. Denise is the only New Zealand trainer to have worked alongside Prof Martin Seligman and Dr Karen Reivich delivering the University of Pennsylvania’s resilience and wellbeing programmes in Australia and the UK.

Introducing Dr Lucy Hone

Regarded as a global thought leader in the field of resilience psychology, tragedy has tested Dr Lucy’s own resilience in deeply personal ways. Adjunct senior fellow at the University of Canterbury and at the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical School, Lucy is an internationally sought-after professional speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning academic. Covid-19 saw her TED talk go viral making it one of the Top 20 of 2020, and the most watched of any New Zealander. With clients ranging from Apple and Amazon, to Hospice and the UN, she helps individuals, teams and communities keep going even when times are tough. Her work is regularly featured in global media, including the Guardian, the Hidden Brain, the Washington Post, and the BBC, the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, CBS  and ABC, Channel News Asia, Swedish Television, and TVNZ. Author of best-seller, Resilient Grieving, Dr Lucy is co-founder of the hugely popular Coping With Loss programme. Find out more about Lucy here.