Julia Grace presenting
Science-based. Heart-led. Lived experience.

Sessions and Keynotes

Inspiration. Education. Activation.


Book Julia
Keynote Speaker of the Year 2025 · Educator of the Year 2023 · VSA Int'l Speaker of the Year 2024
One keynote. Three audiences.

Julia's core keynote is Be Kind to Your Mind, a science-backed, story-driven mental health and wellbeing session. While the foundation is the same, each version is meaningfully tailored for its audience. For corporate and workplace audiences it becomes Working Well, with language, examples, and tools specific to workplace culture, leadership, and team dynamics. For school staff and education professionals it becomes Be Kind to Your Mind for Educators, grounded in the realities of caring professions, classroom pressure, and supporting young people.

Each session also includes the option to add One Degree of Change, a practical follow-on module that helps audiences turn insight into lasting habit. Julia also delivers VOICE for Leaders, a standalone high-performance leadership session, and Early Responders, a mental health first response training for anyone who shows up for others.

Julia Grace presenting
One Degree of Change
Available as an add-on to any core session

Insight without action fades fast. One Degree of Change is the practical follow-on module that helps audiences take what they learned and embed it into everyday life. Through strategic habit-building, goal-setting, and the science of small shifts, people leave with a clear, achievable plan they can start immediately.

Powerful as a standalone session or paired with any Julia Grace keynote for a fuller half-day or full-day programme.

Find out more
One Degree of Change
Standalone sessions
High-Performance Leadership
Your V.O.I.C.E. for Impact

Great leadership is not just about good ideas. It is about how those ideas land. Julia helps leaders and high-performing teams communicate with clarity, confidence, and genuine impact using her memorable VOICE framework. Perfect for leadership offsites, senior teams, and governance groups.

Find out more
Mental Health First Response
Early Responders

Spot the signs. Start the conversation. Respond with confidence. ER equips anyone who shows up for others with practical tools to recognise distress early and respond well, before things reach a crisis point. Ideal for leaders, teachers, parents, and community workers.

Find out more
Accredited Training
Mental Health First Aid

Julia is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor, delivering internationally recognised two-day MHFA training to workplaces, schools, and organisations. Participants leave with a certificate, practical skills, and the confidence to act when it matters.

Find out more

"Practical, real, and fun. Staff are still quoting Julia's tools weeks later."

PLD Working Well Session
Heard from the room

"Julia Grace was fantastic. Warm, relatable, honest, vulnerable, and hilarious. Julia had us in fits of laughter and then tears, and gave incredibly helpful tools and language for navigating mental health challenges."

Sharon Ratnaraja, Wellington

"When I saw the speaker was on for 90 mins I thought, oh no. But when she finished I thought she could have gone for way longer. I loved every minute."

Sara J, Working Well Event

"Julia's session was proof that with work and attention to yourself, you can emerge stronger and happier."

Working Well Staff Session, Auckland

"A powerful mix of humour and strategy. One of the best wellbeing sessions we've had."

Ravi Naidoo, Principal, TOD
Looking for accredited training?

Julia is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor. MHFA equips your people with the skills to recognise early signs of mental distress, have supportive conversations, and connect colleagues with the right help.

Find out more

Ready to bring Julia to your event?

Julia is available across New Zealand and internationally for conferences, corporate events, education days, and leadership summits.

Get in Touch Event Planner Info