About Julia
Science-based. Heart-led. Genuinely memorable.
Julia Grace is a keynote speaker, author, and Mental Health First Aid facilitator who combines neuroscience, lived experience, and original music to create mental health and wellbeing sessions that land differently.
With 30 years on stages across five continents and a career built on making complex ideas accessible, she delivers science-backed content that audiences can apply before they leave the car park.
Named PSA NZ Keynote Speaker of the Year 2025 and author of Be Kind to Your Mind, Julia is known for leaving rooms changed, not just entertained.
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What Julia Delivers
Where shall we start?
Most Requested Keynote
Be Kind to Your Mind
Science, story, and song. Julia's signature keynote moves audiences to standing ovations and leaves people with practical tools they can use straight away.
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Workplace & Corporate
Working Well
Tools, language, and motivation for teams that want to thrive, not just survive. Science-based, practical, and genuinely memorable.
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Schools & Education
Working Well for the People Who Care
For teachers, principals, and support staff who pour everything into others. Practical wellbeing tools for the people who help everyone else.
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See Julia in action
Trusted by organisations across NZ and internationally
What People Say
Heard from the room
"One of the most inspiring presentations I've heard this year."
Elias Kanaris · Past President, Global Speakers Federation
"Julia's ability to deliver a message in a courageous and vulnerable way left us informed and entertained."
Growth Culture Leadership Conference, Fiji
"Julia's words continue to echo through our staff long after the event."
Darren Milligan, Principal · Wyong College NSW
"Practical, real, and fun. Staff are still quoting Julia's tools weeks later."
PLD Working Well Session
Latest Thinking
From the blog
2 March 2026
One Degree of C.H.A.N.G.E.
What if the secret to lasting change isn't a dramatic overhaul, but a single degree of difference? Julia explores why small shifts, applied consistently, create the biggest transformations.
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Ready to bring Julia to your event?
Julia is available across New Zealand and internationally for conferences, corporate events, education days, and leadership summits.
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