Conn Bertish
Transform resilience and creativity with Conn Bertish, speaker and cancer survivor. Conn works with organizations to develop creative resilience and workplace wellbeing, delivering internationally acclaimed programs backed by medical professionals.
Cape Town, South Africa
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In addition to his creative expertise, he is a resilience trainer, a cancer survivor, and a big wave surfer.
After successfully overcoming brain cancer in 2015, Conn made the bold decision to resign from his high-powered job to launch Cancer Dojo, a mobile support app for cancer patients.
Alongside this venture, he also developed the Happy People are Harder to Kill training programs, which medical professionals support.
Conn's unique approach to empowerment, which combines creativity and resilience, has been honed in collaboration with a team of professors, doctors, psychologists, and behaviour-change specialists.
Together, they have designed tools and techniques that help individuals, teams, and organizations develop the mental pathways necessary to achieve true creative resilience, particularly during challenging times.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Simple creative strategies for overcoming Adversity and Challenges. How to harness and use creativity to build resilience, embrace change and live a more extraordinary life.
Harnessing Collaboration as a harder to kill strategy. How to empower teams with simple purposeful creative strategies that inspire sharing, interaction and co-creation.
Building creativity for mental health and productivity. How to generate your own creative strategy for life, work and health.
Creative Leadership during Crisis. Leading with creativity, empathy and insight into your audience.
Innovation And Purpose. Finding your purpose is a life’s work. Learn how to make it fun, extraordinary and part of living a more resilient, creative and happy life.
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