Keynotes

DISTRACTED BY DESIGN — From Doing to Being

We are living inside systems that profit from our attention — systems designed to keep us busy, reactive, and disconnected from ourselves and each other.

Most people feel this.
Few have words for it.

Distracted by Design is not a lecture.
It’s an experience.

In this keynote, Elizabeth creates a rare pause — a space where nervous systems settle, awareness widens, and people can actually feel what it’s like to be present again.

Drawing from decades of research in public health, neuroscience, and wellbeing — and from lived experience inside high-pressure environments — Elizabeth reveals a simple truth:

Stress, burnout, and chronic illness are not personal failures.
They are predictable outcomes of systems that never let us stop.

Rather than asking audiences to “do better” or “try harder,” this keynote introduces the Power of Pause — brief, intentional moments of stillness that restore clarity, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect thinking with the senses.

Systems Awareness: A BEING Revolution.

We must create space for conversations about the systems that impact every human being. How did we get where we are today? What kind of world do we want to create for ourselves moving forward?

Wellbeing is no longer a program. Boards and CEOs across the world are recognizing that wellbeing is only possible when we bring BEING into all we are doing.

Humans are designed for thinking, sensory awareness, and curiosity; it’s what differentiates us from machines. The systems of hyper-doing allow no time for being. Our metrics don’t include human impact. We treat turn-over and the cost of sick-leave as line items in our budget, disconnected from the human experience.

Humans and intellectual capital represent roughly 80% of the value of your business.

It is time to shine a light on the systems and practices distracting us from our true capabilities and worth.