Are you interested in hiring Lucy Hone to speak at your event, conference, trade show, meeting, or convention?
As a keynote speaker, she knows how to command a stage where she can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Dr. Lucy Hone is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as resilience, mental health, and health and wellness. She is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where she gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Dr. Lucy Hone is hired to speak at events and conferences where she can give expertise on important global business affairs. She is a creative expert who tells the audience how to deal with problems. She is a senior professor, has written scholarly works, and co-directs the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience. Lucy spends most of her time studying well-being and how she can get many organizations to help people be resilient and make lasting changes in their personal and professional lives.
At AUT’s Human Potential Center, Dr. Lucy Hone combines her work as a professional, her writing, and her research. Lucy was born in London and went to school at Edinburgh University, the University of Pennsylvania, and AUT in Auckland. Hard times in her life have forced her to combine her academic work in resilience science with her personal and professional life.
Lucy returned to New Zealand after a series of terrible earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch, one of which killed 185 people in February 2011. Martin Seligman’s program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she got her Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology, is well-known worldwide. I thought that the earthquakes were my calling as a professional and a tough but unplanned chance to use my academic skills to help people recover from trauma and make the city stronger.
But when her 12-year-old daughter Abi was killed in a car accident in 2014, Lucy felt compelled to use her academic knowledge to help people who were going through even harder times. After Abi died, she started the blog One Wild and Precious Life, which got a lot of attention worldwide and led to book deals with publishers in the US and NZ. What Abi Taught Us: Strategies for Resilient Grieving (Allen & Unwin, 2016) is now available in North America as Resilient Grieving (The Experiment, 2017). It used to be New Zealand’s most popular book.
Since her books came out, Lucy’s popularity as a keynote speaker and workshop leader has gone up by a lot. Lucy’s speeches are different, interesting, and memorable because she uses her academic knowledge and personal loss experience in a way that is refreshingly honest and has a light touch. She works for various groups, such as Civil Defense, the Chief Coroner’s Office, and many government agencies. She also writes a column every week for the Sunday Star Times.
Her current work as a professional focuses on how well resilience and wellbeing science can be used in the real world to promote mass-market wellness. She was stationed in Christchurch, and in the early days after the earthquake, she worked closely with some important groups to help people get back on their feet and heal mentally. Lucy is the only person from New Zealand who is a member of IPEN. Is she also on the NZAPP Executive Committee and the All Right? Advisory board (IPEN). Her research has been published in journals like the Journal of Positive Psychology, Social Indicators Research, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, International Journal of Wellbeing, and NZ Journal of Human Resources Management. She has also written for other journals.
Lucy is the wife of a busy builder in Christchurch and the mother of teenagers. She knows how hard it can be to balance family, community, and global responsibilities. Her work is better because she is humble and uses simple, clear methods. She also uses humor and tells the truth about her real-life experiences. Her work is very inspiring and unique because of the strange way her professional, intellectual, and personal experiences all come together.
Dr. Hone is well-known for combining her experiences with trauma, loss, and resilience with the methods and tools she learned in school. She has written some books and articles about resilience, such as the best-seller What Abi Taught Us (2016). She is often invited to give keynote speeches.
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Lucy Hone’s speaking fees can vary depending on the type of event you are producing and where it is located.
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