2024 Keynote Speaker

The global and campus mental health crisis and hypercompetitive global market is bearing down on educators, leaders, and students alike. The science of human flourishing reveals that aligning values with behavior can lead to better individual and collective outcomes. This keynote provides a toolbox of interactive, practical, evidence-based strategies to cultivate resilience and build a positive contagion of connection and positive impact.

BIO

Dr. Kristen Lee, Ed.D., LICSW, known as “Dr. Kris”, is an internationally recognized, award- winning behavioral science clinician, researcher, educator, speaker, and comedian from Boston, Massachusetts. As Behavioral Science Faculty at Northeastern University, Dr. Kris’s research and teaching interests include individual and organizational well-being and resilience, particularly for marginalized and underserved populations. Dr. Kris works with organizations and leaders around the world on how to use the science of behavioral change and human potential to build healthy mental health cultures that help prevent burnout and promote organizational and human sustainability.

She is the author of RESET: Make the Most of Your Stress, winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Motivational Book of 2015, best-selling Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking-Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World and Worth the Risk: Learn to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World, a 2022 Next Big Idea Book Club nominee and Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal Winner. She is the host of Crackin’ Up: Where Therapy Meets Comedy and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Thrive Global. Dr. Kris’s work has been featured at Harvard and on NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, and CBS radio. In 2022, she received a First Place MVP award from EdTech for her work with Pathify on addressing mental health challenges in higher education. In 2023, an honorary doctorate in humane letters for her work in mitigating the global and campus crises.