About
Kirsten Peterson - Your "Inner Performance" Psychologist is a motivational speaker for hire in Canberra, ACT.
"I break them, you fix them." A coach said that to Kirsten Peterson, and she spent years doing exactly that before deciding there was a better way. She's a sport psychologist working across high performance settings, from sport and defence to medicine and the C-suite, and her talks push back on the break-them-down-to-build-them-up dogma with what neuroscience and evidence-based psychology now say: people perform best when they feel safe, not threatened, and when they're not at war with themselves. She weaves the science together with story to inspire, educate and challenge. Canberra based. Standard microphones and lighting are all she needs.
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The show
Kirsten Peterson doesn't hand your audience a comfortable hour. She's a sport psychologist who spent years being told by coaches, in so many words, that they broke people and she fixed them, and the talk is her account of realising there's a better way. It goes after the idea that you have to break someone first before they get stronger, which plenty of high performance workplaces still run on, and the case she makes is that people do their best work when they feel safe rather than threatened. Expect story and science together. It's the sort of talk people argue about afterwards, which is usually a good sign.
On the day
A standard audio and visual setup covers it. Microphones, lighting, the kind of thing most conference rooms and function venues already have racked up. She isn't bringing gear or asking you to hire any in. Worth confirming with your venue that the mic works for a speaker who moves around rather than one who stands behind a lectern all hour.