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Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe

Expert on Resiliency and Workplace Wellness

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An educational behaviorist (one of very few in the world) and a globally recognized speaker and scholar, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is also your friendly neighborhood scientist who makes life make sense! With a treasure trove of awards and a worldwide following, she’s on a mission to empower audiences everywhere with practical strategies for fostering resiliency and making stress your ally, not your enemy.

Hanley-Dafoe embodies her teachings by seamlessly blending real-world realities, rigorous research, and profound wisdom with her own personal journey. A mother of three teenagers, a high school dropout turned respected professor, author, entrepreneur and survivor of a life-altering accident, her life story exemplifies her unwavering dedication of spreading resilience. Hanley-Dafoe proves that it is not just a theory, but a transformative skill set.

Known for her engaging delivery, Hanley-Dafoe crafts experiences that integrate scientific research with inspirational narratives into actionable insights across diverse platforms. Her approachability and relatability shine through, inspiring individuals and organizations to face challenges with confidence.

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

  • Everyday Resiliency: How to Master Working and Living Well

    In a world of rapid change and constant challenges, resilience is vital. Join Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe for a transformative exploration of the five pillars of everyday resilience. This session will equip you with practical tools and strategies to boost both your professional and personal well-being and effectiveness.

    Learn how to leverage resilience as your greatest asset in navigating today’s dynamic environment. Attendees will gain actionable insights that empower them to face challenges with renewed confidence and fully realize their potential to thrive in their work.

    Key learning outcomes include, how to:

    • Recognize, address, and optimize everyday stress.
    • Acquire critical insights for why “knowing” better, doesn’t equal “doing” better.
    • Discover what helps and hinders resilient practices.
    • Learn how to activate the five pillars of everyday resiliency.

  • Stress Wisely: The Essential Tools for Living and Working Well

    The stress wisely approach is a kind-hearted reckoning against everything we have learned about stress delivered as a knockout punch.

    Using her signature honesty, humour, relatability, and gift of translating scientific research, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe invites you to lean into the parts of you that intuitively knows there must be a better way to achieve greatness in both livelihood and lifestyle. Using the eight realms of wellness, she presents deep, yet clear and concise, insights and strategies that are instantly actionable.

    It’s time to stress wisely and live well. Learn how to harness stress as an ally, not an adversary, and elevate your capacity for peak performance and resilience. Audiences will learn how to transform their relationship with stress, gaining actionable strategies to harness it as a powerful ally for achieving peak performance and enhanced resilience.

  • Hope is the Strategy: Actioning Hope for Resilient Organizations

    In times of profound uncertainty, hope becomes more than just an emotion — it emerges as a strategic imperative. Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s pioneering work demonstrates how hope is essential for organizations striving for greatness. It not only transforms challenges and adversity into resilience but also cultivates environments conducive to innovation, high performance, and sustained productivity.

    This keynote delves into practical frameworks and evidence-based strategies that empower individuals and organizations to navigate uncertainty with confidence and strategic clarity. Participants will learn actionable habits and mindsets that make teams unstoppable, leveraging hope as a foundational strategy.

  • How Organizations Can Be Truly Well

    In a world that demands more from us every day, achieving sustainable high performance while maintaining our health and wellness can seem like an insurmountable challenge. Enter “How Organizations Can Be Truly Well”, a transformative learning event by renowned educational behaviourist Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe and performance physiologist Dr. Greg Wells. This ground-breaking session is designed for leaders, change-makers, and anyone looking to make a meaningful impact in the world.

    Key learning outcomes include:

    • Leadership wellness: Gain insights into how wellness practices can make you a more effective and empathetic leader.
    • Sustainable high performance: Learn actionable strategies to achieve and maintain peak performance without sacrificing your health.
    • Mind-body connection: Understand the intricate relationship between your mental and physical well-being and how they influence your performance.
    • From languishing to thriving: Discover tools to shift from a state of fatigue and languishing to one of vitality and productivity.

    Why you should hire Hanley-Dafoe and Wells:

    • Research-informed resources: Hanley-Dafoe and Wells bring a wealth of research-informed tools and insights to help you level up every aspect of your life.
    • Holistic approach: The learning experience integrates practices like mindful breathing, movement, and sleep tactics, aligning with Hanley-Dafoe’s and Wells’ holistic approach to health and wellness.
    • Realize your potential: This is more than a keynote; it’s a catalyst for change, moving individuals and organizations from “potential unfulfilled” to “potential realized”.

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Books

  • Stress Wisely by Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe
    Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World

    Life is not only hard as hell but also joy-filled, complicated, and messy. Its pace has...

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  • Calm Within the Storm by Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe
    Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency

    In Calm Within the Storm, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe maps out a kinder approach to taking on the...

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Client reviews

  • GTACC Chair

    We recently had Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe speak at our annual GTACC Leadership Summit and she was outstanding! Despite some technical difficulties on our end, Robyne remained totally calm and in fact calmed me down!

    She remained so flexible to pivot as required. Her talk is so genuinely heart plus science. It is so practical that anyone listening can have clear, actionable take-aways.

    Robyne has the art of sharing a lesson through very relevant stories. She is so easy to work with and just a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend booking Robyne for your next conference as your attendees will thank you!

  • The College of Family Physicians of Canada

    A note of thanks for today’s webinar — it was by far the best session I have attended in recent years! Your content, delivery, personal style and approach. It was all absolutely perfect.

  • Deloitte

    The session was absolutely amazing and everything she said resonated, made sense and was easy to follow! Very impressed. Did not expect a virtual session, with the distraction of being on a work laptop, to be so commanding and excellent!

  • Mackenzie Health

    She was so inspirational — not only too me but to pretty much all my colleagues. Our session took place in a movie theater and I felt like I was watching a movie, never took my eyes off her, she made me cry (more than once) she made me laugh (more than once) and most of all she inspired me (more than once). I have had such positive feedback that I am racking my brains on how I can justify having her come again. She has been the talk of the town in both our offices and people cannot stop saying amazing things about her. I thank you and your team for making the booking seamless.

  • Manulife

    Robyne’s presentation went extremely well. She was fantastic. It was very relevant to our group and was well received by everyone. The feedback has really been amazing. There were so many nuggets of information that we all walked away with. I would highly recommend Robyne as a speaker.

  • Partners in Prevention

    Robyne was a dynamic and engaging presenter who captivated the audience with a blend of compelling research and personal experiences. Robyne projected confidence, passion and humour in her keynote address the Partners in Prevention conference in Kitchener to over 400 people. She provided attendees with practical tools that would immediately make them more empathetic, more knowledgeable and more understanding of what unites all people.

  • Cornerstone Hydro Electric Concepts

    Robyne’s talk on resiliency is motivating and informative with humour and personal experiences shared throughout to keep the audience engaged. Robyne has a way of taking complex information and delivering it in a way that makes sense and has both work and life applications. Often times 1.5 hour talks can be too long for participants to sit through- but come the end of 1.5 hours with Robyne, the audience (front line, mostly outside working staff), could have sacrificed their break to hear more. I have heard remarks like “best presentation I have ever seen” and “best session ever” in the weeks following Robyne’s talk.  I recommend Robyne for any level of your organization- her dynamic, engaging and heartfelt presentation will leave participants feeling motivated to be better versions of themselves with practical tips and clear solutions all the while having laughed many, many times during her talk. I would have Robyne deliver all of our training if I could!

  • Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services

    Robyne was able to speak to fortitude and resilience from the head and heart. Her style and presentation were adapted well to the audience. My 12-year-old granddaughter was fascinated and proclaimed it the best part, while co-workers are still discussing what they learned.

  • Trillium Lakelands District School Board

    Dr. Robyne was a huge hit! Her ability to shape her presentation to fit the audience was amazing and she had people laughing, crying and reflecting on things they are faced with, in their everyday lives. I had feedback that described her presentation as “moving”, “inspirational”, “thought-provoking” and people shared that they felt her ideas were refreshing and gave them something to try immediately.

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