Stressed, Wired and Tired

You're Stressed and You Don’t Even Know It: The Biology of Burnout and How Stress Has The Greatest Impact on Your Health

High-performing individuals often don’t realise how significantly stress is affecting their health. Symptoms like disrupted sleep, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, bloating, and low mood can creep in gradually. Many rely on caffeine to stay focused, need screen time or a glass of wine to unwind, and feel constantly wired but exhausted.

This keynote explores the hidden biological effects of chronic stress and how it interferes with hormones, nervous system regulation, metabolism, gut health, and cognitive function.

Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how stress shows up in the body and walk away with practical, evidence-based strategies on how to protect their bodies from stress, improve their physiological stress response, optimise their whole health, and enhance productivity.

The Hormone Shift

Understanding Women’s Health, Hormonal Change, and Workplace Wellbeing

Despite affecting half the population, women’s hormonal health is still widely misunderstood and under-supported, particularly during perimenopause. Many women feel isolated and confused by the physical, mental, and emotional changes they experience, especially when symptoms are dismissed or labelled as “just part of getting older.” Perimenopausal symptoms can begin as early as the mid to late 30s and often include fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, sleep disruption, cycle changes, low mood, weight gain, and reduced stress tolerance.

Hormonal transitions such as perimenopause, PMS, and PCOS can significantly impact energy, sleep, mood, cognition, metabolism, immunity, and productivity. Yet in most workplaces, there is little education or support available to help women understand and manage these changes.

In this keynote, Michaela provides a clear, evidence-based overview of hormonal health across life stages, with a focus on the perimenopausal transition. She explores common symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, disrupted sleep, mood shifts, and weight changes, while explaining the root physiological drivers behind them.

Attendees will walk away with practical, science-backed strategies to improve energy, sleep, and weight balance, support their hormonal health, and enhance overall wellbeing and resilience, both in the workplace and in everyday life.

Live Long, Live Well

The Science of Longevity, Healthspan, and Ageing Well in the Modern World

We’re living longer than ever, but too many people are spending their later years managing preventable health conditions. This keynote takes a holistic look at what it means to age well, focusing not just on lifespan but on healthspan, which refers to the number of years we remain healthy, independent, and fully functioning.

Chronic conditions now account for up to 91 percent of Australia’s total disease burden, contributing to more than five million years of healthy life lost each year. Rising rates of metabolic dysfunction, anxiety, poor sleep, and cardiovascular disease are also driving absenteeism, with sick leave costing Australian employers over 44 billion dollars annually.

Michaela explores the key systems that influence how we age, including gut health, liver function, sleep, stress, blood sugar regulation, and inflammation.

She also unpacks the role of oxidative stress, insulin resistance, and immune dysfunction in accelerating biological ageing, often before obvious symptoms appear.

This session provides practical, sustainable, and realistic strategies for supporting long-term wellbeing.

Attendees will learn simple, evidence-based approaches to improve energy, sleep quality, mental clarity, weight regulation, and chronic disease prevention.

Core topics include nutrition, lifestyle habits, stress reduction, and movement that can be easily integrated into everyday routines.

By improving healthspan through whole-body health, individuals are better able to maintain productivity, focus, and physical and mental performance across all stages of life.

Trust Your Gut

Why Digestive Health Is the Foundation of Energy, Mood, Immunity, and Whole-Body Wellbeing

Gut health is not just about digestion. It plays a central role in cognitive function, immune defence, hormone balance, inflammation, skin health, and overall wellbeing.

Up to 30 percent of Australians experience gut health issues such as IBS, bloating, constipation, and food sensitivities, yet many continue to dismiss these symptoms as normal or insignificant.

In this keynote, Michaela breaks down the entire digestive system. She explains how it works, how it influences every other system in the body, and how to optimise it for better health and performance.

Michaela explores how gut function affects energy, metabolism, mood, brain performance, and immune health.

Attendees will learn how stress, poor sleep, medications, diet, and environmental exposures disrupt the gut microbiome and impair digestion, contributing to inflammation, fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, and chronic disease risk.

This session provides practical, science-based strategies to support digestion and microbiome balance using nutrition, nervous system support, and sustainable lifestyle changes.

By improving gut health, individuals can increase energy, reduce cognitive fatigue, strengthen immunity, and create a more resilient foundation for long-term wellbeing and workplace performance.