The Wisely-Connected Professional

KEYNOTE (with optional Workshop):
The Wisely-Connected Professional: Using Your Digital Lifestyle to Improve your Wellness & Performance
This keynote helps audiences transform your digital technology use from stress-inducing to a tool for enhanced well-being and performance.

In this keynote, you'll learn a 4-step framework plus proven strategies that convert digital lifestyles into wellness and performance enhancers. Using "The StressTech Literacy Model," you'll learn how digital devices, channels and content can reduce stress, sharpen focus, build mindfulness, and create deeper connections with colleagues and teams.

Walk away with actionable digital practices that fill critical gaps in your wellness routine—because your technology should fuel your success, not drain your energy.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Assess Your Digital Lifestyle and recognize how It impacts well-being, productivity, and professional relationships.

2. Use the StressTech Literacy Framework to design a StressTech Portfolio of specific digital practices that address unique wellness gaps and professional performance goals.

3. Prepare to implement technology-enabled wellness practices into daily routines that foster deeper connections with colleagues while enhancing performance.

I am an enthusiastic and engaging speaker, trainer, facilitator and coach with over three decades of global experience in organizational leadership, digital health, and caregiver expertise, both in the US and Singapore.

I have developed this expertise in a number of world-class organizations like Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Takeda, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Thomas Jefferson University, and Project Home. I am also graduate trained in Business Administration at the University of Westminster (UK), and Public Health at King's College, London.

I am a certified coach with a specialism in change management and leadership. I have additional certifications in Mental Health First Aid and Trauma-Informed Care.

My work is focused on improving health and supporting the development of healthy leaders.

I am a husband of 38 years, a father of 2, and a grandfather. I reside in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

I am experienced in putting on live, virtual, and hybrid learning experiences, for audiences as intimate as 3 and as large as 500+. I am skilled in the use of multiple platforms from Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet to interactive whiteboards like Miro and Mural to audience engagement tools like Slido.

I am experienced in event roles that range from keynote to panelling to workshopping to facilitating to chairing, and I love to play multiple roles across any event, allowing planners to more easily gain the return on their investment.