Kirsten Peterson - Your "Inner Performance" Psychologist

"I break them, you fix them." A coach said that to Kirsten Peterson, and she spent years doing exactly that before deciding there was a better way. She's a sport psychologist working across high performance settings, from sport and defence to medicine and the C-suite, and her talks push back on the break-them-down-to-build-them-up dogma with what neuroscience and evidence-based psychology now say: people perform best when they feel safe, not threatened, and when they're not at war with themselves. She weaves the science together with story to inspire, educate and challenge. Canberra based. Standard microphones and lighting are all she needs.