Dr Denise Quinlan, Director NZ Institute Wellbeing & Resilience

Denise is a recovering pessimist who shares with audiences the resilience skills she has gathered over a lifetime of keeping her own head above water. She has earned a Masters and PhD in resilience and wellbeing, and worked with the field’s thought leaders all around the world. For Denise, resilience skills are big flippers that counteract the heavy weight belt of pessimism and help her kick to the surface. These skills, her Irish sense of humour, disarming honesty and deep love of people are what make her work special. Impatient for change and wanting better lives for us all, Denise will share the strategies she sees making the biggest difference for people, challenge how you’re thinking about the future, and sharpen your focus on how to protect what matters most in your life.

Background.

Co-founder of the Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience and Coping With Loss, Denise lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, has been an award-winning lecturer at leading European business school, IE University, Madrid, and leads the only accredited Diploma in Wellbeing Science in Australia and NZ where participants describe her as ‘a rockstar at facilitating’ and her work as ‘life-changing’. Her work focuses on human sustainability and how organisations can make work better for the people who work there