Petra Velzeboer

In a world of constant digital distraction, managing technology and AI effectively is crucial to avoiding burnout and maintaining focus. Petra offers science-backed insights on how to manage digital overwhelm, boost focus and offer practical strategies to improve culture.

This keynote empowers teams to navigate the digital landscape, recharge their focus, and enhance productivity while maintaining overall wellbeing.

This program is perfect for:

• Teams struggling with digital overload and workplace distractions
• Leaders looking to boost productivity without sacrificing mental health

Great leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about creating a culture where people feel safe, motivated, and supported. Petra shares strategies to help leaders boost potential, model healthy behaviors, and inspire their teams to perform at their best.

This program is perfect for:

• Senior executives and managers navigating hybrid work challenges
• Organisations committed to building psychologically safe workplaces

How to create a mentally healthy culture

Mental health isn’t a luxury—it’s a business imperative. This keynote challenges traditional wellness programs and provides actionable solutions to integrate wellbeing into business strategy for long-term success.

This program is perfect for:

• CEOs and decision-makers committed to employee retention and wellbeing
• Companies seeking a competitive edge through people-first leadership

Investing in your mindset and building resilience can be challenging during times of uncertainty, this keynote will help you tackle:

• The mental attitude necessary for evolving our approach to a new world of work
• Investing in your mindset to sustain success
• Creating psychologically safe culture to help people thrive
• Retaining talent
• Effective change management

Only focussing on mental health on awareness days is now seen as a tickbox and no longer sufficient for a post-pandemic world. Covid-19 has increased rates of poor mental health globally which means in order to evolve your workforce, this must be a key objective at all levels of the business including Senior Leadership, HR and your Mental Health Champion Networks. This talk will:

• Provide mental health awareness to all levels of the business
• Highlight the benefits of a mental health plan and simplify the steps to creating one
• Offer insight on supporting others who may be struggling with their mental health
• Bring this strategy to life for employees, wellbeing leads and management

Stress and building resilience are big buzz words in organisations. We want our people to be able to handle what life throws at them and thank us for the opportunity! This talk provides practical tools for managing stress, avoiding burnout and developing a mindset that sustains long term success. It includes:

• Practical tools for building resilience and developing self awareness
• Reframing our leadership approach to one of courage and vulnerability
• Understanding burnout and the physiological impact of long term stress
• Intentional investment in our wellbeing

Transform adversity into strength and build a fulfilling life!

Born into a notorious cult, Petra’s early life was far from ordinary. Growingup with the belief that the world was ending, she didn’t attend school and lived in diverse places like India, Brazil, and Kenya.

This unusual upbringing taught her to wear masks and lead a double life. Eventually, she left the cult, pregnant and uneducated, only to find herself spiralling into addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts.

Petra’s story is a powerful testament to rising through adversity. She connects her personal experiences to the universal challenge of wearing masks to fit in and belong. With a tough-love approach, Petra challenges conventional notions of wellbeing, advocating for honesty, hard work, and resilience even when it’s uncomfortable.

Key Takeaways for Your Audience:

• Turn Adversity into Strength: Practical tips for transforming personal challenges into powerful strengths.
• Authenticity and Resilience: Strategies to remove masks and embrace genuine living.
• Revitalised Wellbeing: A refreshing approach to wellbeing that goes beyond superficial fixes, inspiring real and lasting change.

The modern workplace is full of pressures that can leave teams overwhelmed and burnt out.

Petra provides actionable strategies to help leaders prevent burnout, set healthy boundaries, and foster growth. With practical tools to enhance resilience and unlock the full potential of individuals and teams, this keynote empowers organisations to navigate change while staying energised, engaged, and productive.

This program is perfect for:

• Organisations experiencing high turnover and employee disengagement
• Teams in high-stress industries facing mounting workloads and overwhelm

In a hybrid world, building remote culture and managing remote teams is a crucial skill to ensure talent retention and high productivity. This talk includes:

• Leadership skills for a hybrid world
• Building culture, trust and psychological safety
• Practical check in exercises and questions
• Top Tips for effective team meetings
• Noticing poor mental health virtually – and what to do about it!

Many leaders and managers are tired, burnt out and feeling compassion fatigue! It seems the role has expanded to include emotional support, listening and making sure everyone else is ok. Well what about you?? This talk highlights the pressure leaders experience, how their mental health is more important than ever and how leading by example creates lasting culture change. Petra includes:

• Practicing empathy is not being a pushover
• Understand limits and boundaries – and communicate them to your team
• Empowering employees to take personal responsibility for their wellbeing
• Leadership skills for a new world of work
• Expert advice on the line between performance and mental health

Petra is a dynamic host and moderator of podcasts and live events  highlighting the expertise of others on the topics of personal development, leadership and mental health.