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Want to book Brendan Kelly for your next event?
Email brendan.kelly@getapeptalk.com, and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Please note: we can only assist with speaking requests. For anything else, we recommend reaching out to Brendan Kelly directly.
What topics does Brendan Kelly specialise in?
Brendan Kelly specialises in talking about mental health, resilience, happiness and more.
What is Brendan Kelly's speaking style like?
Brendan delivers engaging presentations that simplify complex mental health concepts, blending warmth and humour. Audiences gain practical strategies for resilience and wellbeing, leaving inspired and informed. AI summary based on real event feedback.
Does Brendan Kelly offer virtual speaking engagements?
Yes, Brendan Kelly offers virtual speaker bookings for webinars, online conferences, and remote or distributed team engagements.
Professor Brendan Kelly explores what modern science reveals about the pursuit of happiness, drawing from his bestselling book The Science of Happiness. Examining global trends and surprising insights, such as why 47 is the age of greatest unhappiness, he reveals practical, research-based principles and strategies that help foster a more fulfilling life. Blending psychology, philosophy and humour, Brendan offers a compelling framework for creating the conditions in which happiness can flourish, even amidst the challenges of modern living.
Based on his personal experiment detailed in The Doctor Who Sat For a Year, Brendan brings insight, warmth and wit to the realities of incorporating meditation into a busy life. He shares what happened when he, a psychiatrist and self-confessed ‘Zen failure’, attempted to sit quietly for 15 minutes each day over the course of a year. The result is a reflection on mindfulness, not as perfection but as presence, and how small changes in awareness can transform how we relate to ourselves and others.
Through the lens of Ireland’s experience of Covid-19 and the historical legacy of pandemics, Brendan explores the paradox of human fragility and strength. Drawing from his book Resilience, he examines how societies remember, or forget, major traumas and what we can learn from figures such as Sir William Wilde. With clarity and compassion, Brendan outlines how hardship can be a catalyst for wisdom, adaptability and deeper connection, both individually and collectively.
With experience as both an academic and a frontline clinician, Brendan offers an accessible yet thorough overview of mental health. He demystifies key conditions, including depression, schizophrenia and anxiety, while exploring the evolution of psychiatry and mental health care systems. With deep empathy and a strong call for justice and reform, he equips audiences to better understand mental illness, challenge stigma and support those affected.
Brendan addresses the psychological unease surrounding artificial intelligence and new technologies through a historical and human lens. Tracing the cyclical pattern of panic and adjustment that has followed innovations from steam engines to social media, he reveals how today’s anxieties about AI reflect deeper concerns about autonomy and control. Bridging history, ethics and mental health, Brendan offers a grounded approach to engaging with technology in a balanced and person-centred way.
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