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Julia Grace

New Zealand's Mental Health Keynote Speaker

Science-based  ·  Heart-led  ·  Lived experience

Keynote Speaker of the Year 2025 · VSA Int'l Breakthru Speaker 2024 · 1,000+ Presentations Worldwide
1,000+
Keynotes & Presentations
5
Continents
30+
Years Experience
About Julia

Science-based. Heart-led. Genuinely memorable.

Julia Grace is New Zealand's mental health keynote speaker for conferences, workplaces, and education. She combines neuroscience, lived experience, and original music to create 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.

Meet Julia
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Julia Grace singing on stage at a conference
Julia Grace podcast and media appearance
Julia Grace New Zealand keynote speaker on stage
Julia Grace holding Be Kind to Your Mind book

"An extraordinarily gifted speaker. Hilarious, knowledgeable, instantly relatable."

Dr Neryl East CSP · Australia Local Government Summit

What Julia Delivers
One core message. Three audience doors.
Signature Keynote
Be Kind to Your Mind

Julia's most-requested keynote and the foundation of everything she does. Neuroscience in plain language, lived experience without the lecture, and a live musical finale that stops the room every single time. Audiences leave with practical tools, a shared language, and something they genuinely felt.

✓ Standing ovations ✓ Science-backed frameworks ✓ Live musical performance ✓ Tools they use immediately

Adapted for every audience. Choose yours below.

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Conferences
For Conferences
Science, story, and song. Julia's keynote presentations move audiences to standing ovations and leave people with practical tools they can use straight away.
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Julia Grace workplace wellbeing keynote
Workplaces and Corporate
For Workplaces
Tools, language, and motivation for teams that want to thrive, not just survive. Science-based, practical, and genuinely memorable.
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Julia Grace mental health workshops for schools and educators
Schools and Education
For Educators
For teachers, principals, and support staff who pour everything into others. Practical mental health workshops for schools and education teams.
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Trusted by organisations across NZ and internationally
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Julia Grace with conference audience

"Julia tackles intimidating topics with warmth and clarity, and then she sings. And wow, what a moment."

Meredith Kennett  ·  Coca-Cola Europacific Partners NZ

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
One Degree of Change blog post by Julia Grace
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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Book Julia

Ready to bring New Zealand's mental health keynote speaker to your event?

Available across New Zealand and internationally for conferences, corporate events, education days, and leadership summits.

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