Lucy Hone

Why you should book speaker Dr. Lucy Hone

• Speaker Dr. Lucy Hone is a leading international authority on wellbeing and resilience. Her TEDx Talk has over two million views and is featured on TED as she offers audience members insightful knowledge around her compelling keynotes.
• She takes the fluff out of wellbeing and resilience. Lucy’s presentations translate the best of science to help people get more out of their lives.
• Lucy’s delivery is practical, humorous, and down-to-earth, with the ability to reach a vast amount of audience members.

Speaker Dr. Lucy Hone is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury and co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience. She is also a published academic researcher plus a best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today. Educated in wellbeing science at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy Hone then attained her Ph.D. in public health at the AUT University in Auckland. She now assists organizations such as government departments, leading law firms, and schools to design and introduce wellbeing and resilience initiatives and projects, bringing sustained and meaningful change.

As a member of the NZAPP Executive Committee, conference convenor for Wellbeing in Education New Zealand, and New Zealand’s only representative of the International Positive Education Network, Lucy Hone’s research has been published in several academic journals over the years, such as the Journal of Positive Psychology, Social Indicators Research, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the International Journal of Wellbeing and NZ Journal of Human Resources Management.

Her best-selling book, Resilient Grieving, is published in both New Zealand, Australia, the USA, and England, and her latest book to date, The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, is published by Taylor & Francis London, a global publication for the UK, Asia, US, and Australasia as well. Her TED talk called the Three Secrets of Resilient People has had over two million views and has been translated into fifteen different languages.