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Coaching for High Performance
Practical neuroscience-backed coaching techniques to elevate leadership impact.
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Strengthening leadership impact through neuroscience-based EQ and interpersonal skills.
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Applying neuroscience to develop self-awareness, decision-making, and influence, enabling leaders to drive engagement, performance, and impact.
Read lessLeading Neurodiversity
Equipping leaders with the tools to support, engage, and empower neurodivergent talent in the workplace.
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Enhancing understanding and workplace inclusion for neurodivergent individuals.
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Creating a trust-based workplace where innovation and collaboration thrive.
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Science-backed techniques to build mental agility, stress tolerance, and sustained high performance.
Read lessThriving with and Leading Change
Equip leaders with brain-based strategies to manage uncertainty, foster adaptability, and sustain engagement.
Read lessWomen in Leadership
Empowering women through brain-based strategies to enhance leadership confidence and impact.
Read lessKristen Hansen
Neuroscience-Based Leadership Expert Transforming Managers into High-Performance Leaders
Kristen Hansen equips managers and leaders with the strategies they need to lead with impact, building resilience, adaptability, creativity, coaching capability, self-management and engagement in fast-changing environments.
A highly sought-after keynote speaker, Kristen has spoken at more than 250 leadership and performance conferences globally, training over 50,000 managers and executives across Australia and internationally. Her work has reached audiences through organisations such as Westpac, Macquarie Bank, Deloitte, Google, Allianz, NAB, McDonald’s, Energex, Ambulance NSW, the Australian Federal Police, and multiple state and federal government departments. Remarkably, much of her speaking career has been built through word-of-mouth reputation alone.
Kristen is an international speaker, trainer and executive coach, regularly presenting across Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and the United States. She is also a respected media voice – a regular columnist for CEO World, expert radio commentator, interviewee on the Today Show, and contributor to “Leadership Matters”. Additionally, Kristen is the author of ‘TRACTION – The Neuroscience of Leadership and Performance’, translating complex brain science into practical leadership tools.
Drawing on a Master’s degree in the Neuroscience of Leadership and over 20 years of experience in senior management and sales leadership roles with major Australian organisations including Pacific Dunlop, Bonds, Fairfax and News Limited, Kristen blends commercial realism with cutting-edge neuroscience. Her work focuses on helping managers become influential leaders, technical experts become confident communicators, and teams thrive through change.
Kristen is also an accredited Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation, certified NeuroLeadership Group coach, Master Trainer in Emotional Intelligence, and accredited in PRISM Brain Mapping – the world’s first online neuroscience-based profiling tool – as well as DiSC and emotional intelligence assessments. She can also be seen facilitating for the Australian Institute of Management.
Through tailored keynotes, workshops and coaching programs, Kristen helps organisations build leadership effectiveness, resilience, adaptability, persuasion, sales performance and change capability, delivering practical, brain-based tools that audiences can immediately apply at work and beyond.