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Sophie Bostock

As Keynote Speaker, Sleep Expert, and Consultant Sophie Bostock presents her latest research in sleep, well-being, and performance. She inspires and enables changes in her audiences' personal and professional lives.

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Sophie is an energising and inspiring speaker, and has delivered over 100 corporate 'Sleeposiums', webinars, training programmes and keynote speeches on topics related to sleep science and performance, leadership, innovation, digital health and wellbeing.
Sophie has delivered talks for Fortune 500 tech companies, investors, financial services firms, lawyers, vets, athletes, police, military, manufacturers, startups, universities and the NHS.

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Science Unlocked: Become Your Own Sleep Scientist

Sophie Bostock, is a Sleep Evangelist on a mission: to help millions of people to improve their lives by unlocking the science of sleep and performance. Following degrees in Medicine and Entrepreneurship, Sophie completed a PhD in Psychobiology at UCL. This led to an interest in sleep in as one of the unsung heroes of health and wellbeing.

Sophie spent 5 years as Innovation Lead at Big Health, a pioneering digital medicine company, where she was awarded an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship for her work on Sleepio, an online sleep improvement programme.

An accident caused by sleep deprivation was the trigger for Sophie to launch TheSleepScientist.com. Sophie delivers keynote talks, performance training and consultancy for clients in business, the military and elite sport. Sophie regularly features as a media sleep expert, and has delivered talks for TEDx and Talks@Google.

In 2021 Sophie rowed around Britain to raise £10k for the British Heart Foundation. In 2022 she paddled 2000km from Canada to Alaska.

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“Hi Sophie, thanks again for a wonderful webinar yesterday. It was so interactive and great content - thoroughly engaging."

Catherine Murray, Director of Audience Data Strategy Guardian News & Media

“A record number of colleagues dialled in for Sophie’s session – just over 600, and a record number of questions were sent it, just over 110! The over-riding feedback was “Sophie was fab!”"

Anne Mason, Development Executive Sainsbury’s Group

“Sophie’s webinar had a sky high attendance rate, and exceptional feedback – 94% agreed that the session was really valuable, and 94% agreed that HP was responding appropriately to the Covid-19 crisis. We ended up repeating the session twice for different timezones, as well as having a recording, since the Live Q&A was so valuable."

Julie Andrews Global Benefits, HP

Keynotes

Keynote by Sophie Bostock:

Sleeping for Peak Performance: How Sleep Works, and How to Make the Most of Yours

What difference does an hour less sleep really make to your performance? Can you adapt to short sleep? How does poor sleep impact on teamwork and decision-making?

If you understand the systems which control your sleep, you will know which levers will be most important to you to improve your sleep and recovery. When it comes to putting changes into practice, the more sleep deprived we are, the harder it becomes to change behaviour... so change has to be easy.

In this session, find out:

Which aspects of your performance are most vulnerable to sleep loss

The hidden impacts of poor sleep on workplace performance

The 3 systems which control how well you sleep, and how to influence them

How to put healthier sleep habits into practice

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Keynote by Sophie Bostock:

Sleeping with Uncertainty and Change

Do you wake up in the early hours with a racing mind? Worrying about work, what needs to be done, or just that you're short of sleep? You're not alone. But worry doesn’t have to keep you up at night. Sleep and our emotions are intimately linked. In this session, we unpick the vicious cycle of stress and sleep loss, and how to get you sleep back on track.

What we’ll cover:

How the brain responds to sleep loss and how this alters our physical health, emotional
reactivity and behaviour

The core systems which control sleep quality, and how to make them work to your advantage

How to overcome sleep procrastination

Techniques for falling asleep and getting back to sleep that you can start to practice tonight

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Keynote by Sophie Bostock:

Fighting Fatigue: How to manage your energy when you’re under pressure

How can we perform at our best, more of the time? We may have no choice but to squeeze more into our days, but this can interfere with sleep and recovery. In this session we’ll explore what the science of sleep and circadian rhythms can teach us about boosting energy when we need it. We’ll apply insights from high pressure settings in the military and elite sport and discuss how to apply them to your everyday work.

Find out:

Why there is more to fatigue than lack of sleep

How you could structure your diary to make the most of your unique patterns in

mental and physical performance

Tactics to reduce fatigue and boost motivation in the moment, without relying on caffeine or stimulants

What triggers a stress response, and strategies for switching off

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Keynote by Sophie Bostock:

What’s different about women’s sleep? Strategies for coping

Anyone can suffer from sleep problems, but statistically, women report higher rates of disturbed sleep than men, starting at puberty. Why? What impact does this have on key life stages? And what can we do about it?

In this session, we’ll explore:

How sleep changes at different life stages, and in response to hormonal changes

The most common sleep challenges affecting men and women

Why the differences in sleep between men and women may not be what they seem

The most effective strategies to help with sleep when your hormones have other ideas

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