SPEAKER | HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY IN THE AGE OF AI

YOUR SPARK FOR ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE NEUROINCLUSIVE ERA

Keynote speaker and behavioural scientist: science brought to life with soul, so your people can thrive at the speed of change, without burning out.

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YOUR SPARK FOR ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE NEUROINCLUSIVE ERA

Behavioural science brought to life with soul, so your people can thrive at the speed of change, without burning out.

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Human potential is increasingly constrained by systems that no longer reflect the complexity of the humans moving through them.

 

"Mariane intuitively reads the room. She has an innate capacity to translate often dense, clinical concepts and translate them to multi-stakeholders. In plain-speak. Everything Mariane does is values driven. Her methods enable and equip people to speak their truth. She encourages her clients, audience and peers."

Christina Gerakiteys, CEO UtopiaX. Board Member, Accelerator/GSEA/KEP Chair EO [Entrepreneurs' Organisation]

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Human potential is increasingly constrained by systems that no longer reflect the complexity of the humans moving through them. 

"Mariane intuitively reads the room. She has an innate capacity to translate often dense, clinical concepts and translate them to multi-stakeholders. In plain-speak. Everything Mariane does is values driven. Her methods enable and equip people to speak their truth. She encourages her clients, audience and peers."

Christina Gerakiteys, CEO UtopiaX. Board Member, Accelerator/GSEA/KEP Chair EO [Entrepreneurs' Organisation]

FIVE SIGNATURE KEYNOTES

Build the conditions your best people need.

FEATURED KEYNOTE

Great People Need Better Systems

Why performance is shaped as much by environment as by talent, and how to redesign roles for the age of AI.

Most workplaces are still asking capable people to push harder inside systems built for work that no longer exists. This keynote treats performance, wellbeing and inclusion as design decisions leaders can make, and shows how neuroinclusive design surfaces the competitive intelligence already sitting in your teams.

Your audience will leave able to:

  1. Spot the hidden friction quietly draining performance.
  2. Reframe burnout and stalling as design problems they can fix.
  3. Redesign roles and conditions for the age of AI.
  4. Lead the change with clarity, empathy and courage.

Best for: Senior leadership teams · People & Culture and OD leaders · AI transformation and change leaders · leadership offsites.

Book this one if: Your best people are stalling and you already suspect it's the system, not the people. Leave with the redesign, not another resilience workshop.

The Human Value Advantage

Your irreplaceable human edge, and how to grow it.

For all-staff events, conference closings and team days.

The Creativity Edge

Why different minds become your advantage as AI makes average free.

For innovation, R&D, marketing and future-of-work stages.

Burnout Is a System Signal

Why burnout is system feedback, and how to redesign the work.

For People & Culture, WHS and leadership audiences.

The Podium Play

The human system behind repeatable elite performance.

For high-performance and leadership audiences.

Every keynote's audiences, outcomes and formats, available in one forwardable PDF.

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 Scientific rigour delivered with story and soul

 

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Speaking to a school community, a founder cohort, a women-in-leadership room or a sector with its own change language? Mariane shapes a talk to your audience and outcome, drawn from the same evidence base. Submit your inquiry here and tell her who is in the room and what you need them to walk away with.

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MEET MARIANE

Do you know what your most different thinkers could do?

Mariane Power is a behavioural scientist and former clinical psychologist who has spent nearly two decades inside the machinery of human performance, in clinics, boardrooms, classrooms and elite sport, studying what happens when real human nervous systems meet ambitious goals, accelerating technology and work that was never designed for human complexity.

She also speaks from inside the experience she researches. Late-diagnosed neurodivergent, she translates rigorous science into stories, frameworks and decisions that hold up with technical audiences and still feel human, which is why the room leans in. Her message for the age of AI is a hopeful one: technology accelerates exponentially, human biology does not, and the organisations that thrive will be the ones that redesign work around that truth.

Your edge is not more pressure on great people. It is the intelligence already sitting in the minds most systems overlook.

▶ Watch Mariane's story (3 minutes)

Ready to redesign?

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MEET MARIANE

Do you know what your most different thinkers could do?

Mariane Power is a behavioural scientist and former clinical psychologist who has spent nearly two decades inside the machinery of human performance, in clinics, boardrooms, classrooms and elite sport, studying what happens when real human nervous systems meet ambitious goals, accelerating technology and work that was never designed for human complexity.

She also speaks from inside the experience she researches. Late-diagnosed neurodivergent, she translates rigorous science into stories, frameworks and decisions that hold up with technical audiences and still feel human, which is why the room leans in. Her message for the age of AI is a hopeful one: technology accelerates exponentially, human biology does not, and the organisations that thrive will be the ones that redesign work around that truth.

Your edge is not more pressure on great people. It is the intelligence already sitting in the minds most systems overlook.

▶ Watch Mariane's story (3 minutes)

Ready to redesign?

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See the keynotes

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"The future of work is not about pushing people harder. It is about designing better human systems."

— Mariane Power