$20,001 - $30,000
Keynote fee falls within this range. For exact fee, please contact us.
Canada
Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is an award-winning psychology and education behaviorist, recognized as one of the most trusted voices on resiliency, stress and hope. She helps people and organizations achieve meaningful success and productivity, without sacrificing well-being. Known for her unique ability to bridge research and real-life application, Dr. Robyne delivers science with heart. Her work makes complex ideas simple, relatable and immediately usable, offering practical frameworks for staying steady, capable and kind in a world that often feels anything but.
A former high school dropout turned university professor, bestselling author and mother of three, Dr. Robyne’s story is as compelling as her science. She has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes globally and reached millions through her writing, teaching and digital platforms.
Her award-winning books Calm Within the Storm and Stress Wisely have established her as a global authority on resiliency, sustainable performance and psychological safety. Her upcoming release, I Hope So: How to Choose Hope, Even When It Is Hard (February 2026), offers a groundbreaking perspective on hope as a practical skill, a strategic advantage that fuels leadership, protects mental health and strengthens communities.
Dr. Robyne has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Shondaland and Live Happy. She is a weekly contributor to Psychology Today, was recognized by BookLife as a Grand Prize Non-Fiction Winner and is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems and educators around the world. She is the expert organizations call when they want their people to perform at their best and stay well doing it.
Everyday Resiliency: How to Master Working & Living Well
In a world of rapid change and constant challenges, resilience is vital. Join Dr. Robyne 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 gain actionable insights that empower them to face challenges with renewed confidence and fully realize their potential to thrive in their work.
Key Ideas and Takeaways:
- 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.
Dr. Robyne, with her signature honesty, humor, relatability, and gift of translating scientific research, invites you to lean into the parts of you that intuitively know there must be a better way to achieve greatness in both livelihood and lifestyle. Using the eight realms of wellness, Dr. Robyne presents deep-yet clear and concise-insights and strategies that are instantly actionable.
Learn to harness stress as an ally, not an adversary, and elevate your capacity for peak performance and resilience. It’s time to stress wisely and live well. Audience members learn to transform their relationship with stress, gaining actionable strategies to harness it as a powerful ally for achieving peak performance and enhanced resilience.
The Hope Forward Advantage: A Framework for Stability, Agility, and Possibility
Stress. Challenge. Change. Uncertainty. These forces shape our lives, and too often we believe they force a choice: performance or wellness, success or integrity, results or relationships, achievements or purpose. The truth is, they are not mutually exclusive. When we know what to do, when to do it, and why it matters, they become interconnected; the foundation for living well and working well.
In this keynote, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, award-winning researcher and author of I Hope So: How to Choose Hope, Even When It’s Hard, introduces a practical, research-driven framework for moving through disruption with clarity, courage, and confidence. With more than twenty years of research in psychology, education, and human development, Dr. Robyne equips audiences with evidence-based strategies they can apply immediately with:
- Resiliency as the foundation: steady ground in uncertain times
- Stress as the fuel: energy for clarity, focus, and growth when harnessed wisely
- Hope as the navigation: the compass for bold direction and meaningful possibility
This is not hype or empty motivation, it is the science and practice of showing up well. Known for delivering science with heart, Dr. Robyne is both relatable and deeply knowledgeable, someone who gets it and knows how to make it work in real life. Participants leave ready to steady themselves, harness stress into momentum, and move forward with hope; the force that defines and shapes the future we choose. It’s time to gets our hopes up!
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 behaviorist Dr. Robyne 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.
What you’ll learn:
- 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 Dr. Robyne and Dr. Greg:
- Research-informed resources: Robyne & Greg 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 Dr. Robyne’s and Dr. Greg’s 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’.
DR. ROBYNE HANLEY-DAFOE
Canada
$20,001 - $30,000
Keynote fee falls within this range. For exact fee, please contact us.
Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is an award-winning psychology and education behaviorist, recognized as one of the most trusted voices on resiliency, stress and hope. She helps people and organizations achieve meaningful success and productivity, without sacrificing well-being. Known for her unique ability to bridge research and real-life application, Dr. Robyne delivers science with heart. Her work makes complex ideas simple, relatable and immediately usable, offering practical frameworks for staying steady, capable and kind in a world that often feels anything but.
A former high school dropout turned university professor, bestselling author and mother of three, Dr. Robyne’s story is as compelling as her science. She has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes globally and reached millions through her writing, teaching and digital platforms.
Her award-winning books Calm Within the Storm and Stress Wisely have established her as a global authority on resiliency, sustainable performance and psychological safety. Her upcoming release, I Hope So: How to Choose Hope, Even When It Is Hard (February 2026), offers a groundbreaking perspective on hope as a practical skill, a strategic advantage that fuels leadership, protects mental health and strengthens communities.
Dr. Robyne has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Shondaland and Live Happy. She is a weekly contributor to Psychology Today, was recognized by BookLife as a Grand Prize Non-Fiction Winner and is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems and educators around the world. She is the expert organizations call when they want their people to perform at their best and stay well doing it.