Heather McKee, Speaker | Lifestyle Behaviour Change, Sticky Habits

Heather McKee

Change habits that last for a lifetime, not just a week, with Dr Heather McKee, Europe’s leading lifestyle behaviour change specialist.

Heather McKee | Speaker Biography

Europe's leading specialist in lifestyle behaviour change

Pioneer in research on creating lasting healthy habits

Featured in Vogue, Time, BBC, and over 300 media articles

Dr Heather McKee is Europe's foremost specialist in lifestyle behaviour change. With over ten years of academic experience, she has devoted her studies to understanding the critical elements of creating lasting habits. Her mission is to empower individuals to make lasting changes in their health by utilising research-driven methods that promote freedom and joy in their healthy habits.

Heather's groundbreaking work has been featured in renowned research journals and over 300 media articles. She has been recognised in prestigious publications such as Vogue, Time magazine, and The Times and regularly contributed to the BBC. Additionally, she has collaborated with prominent companies, including Unilever, Rituals, lululemon, Starbucks, HSBC, TikTok, NHS, .com, Allianz, Vodafone, Sainsbury's, The Telegraph, and Lloyds, among others, to support their teams' wellbeing.

Her topics include motivation, empowerment, engagement, behavioural science, and taking accountability, so if you want to transform your team from feeling depleted, demoralised, and on the verge of burnout to becoming energised, engaged, and empowered to take control of their well-being, let Dr Heather guide the way.

Featured Sessions

The Sticky Habits Method

Are your people tired, stressed out and lacking the motivation to do something about it? Are You tired of running well-being sessions that don’t lead to lasting change? How Much could you add to your bottom line if you could reduce absenteeism, increase productivity, and have a more engaged team? In This keynote, Dr Heather mckee empowers your employees to take their health and happiness into their own hands and make the changes you care about as a company, and they care about as a person last.

Create Space For Wellbeing Where There Is None

This keynote is designed to support the launch of an internal health and well-being program or to enhance engagement in an existing or past health and well-being program. We have all experienced a monumental shift in our place, roles, and purpose. Something unprecedented has happened in our lives, where we live in a time of flux and uncertainty. Now more than ever we need our routines, we need our habits to support us. However, now more than ever, we feel we have less time, less energy and less motivation to make positive change last If you’re finding that your people feel like they never have time to eat well, exercise, or look after their mental health. If they feel like it’s another thing they must jam into an already packed schedule, this is the session for your organisation. If you’re finding what you’ve been doing until now isn’t working for your people, this session will provide you with the rare opportunity to reflect and move forward with a critical plan of action to protect and nurture your people’s well-being.

How To Use Your Time To Your Advantage

The behavioural science behind how to reclaim our time, prevent burnout and get the things that genuinely matter done. Why do we run ragged, trying to do it all?! Stay On top of the home, kids, work, etc., is a balancing act we often feel we lose daily. We feel depleted, burned, and without energy for what matters most. Each morning, we wake full of good intentions, and then by late afternoon, it’s all gone out the window, and we're working late to catch up again. We are smart, capable, and successful, so why can’t we get this right? Join Dr Heather McKee, behaviour change specialist, for this reclaim your time workshop. In this session, you will learn more about prioritising your time, what gets in the way and how to manage it; Understand how to set up your environment to support you so you can save your precious headspace for the things that matter most to you; Develop the habits you need to start to reclaim your time, prevent burnout and get the things that genuinely matter done. By the end of this session, participants will have a clear roadmap of the steps they need to take to make the most of their time and harness it to support them.

The Hidden Habit, The Power Of Self-Compassion To Ignite Change

We can readily give compassion to others but often leave very little for ourselves. Behavioural science research shows repeatedly that those with more self-compassion are more likely to achieve their work, health, and life goals, do so quickly, and ultimately serve others better. In Dr. McKee's workshop, participants will learn the science behind why compassion is known as the “first domino” and is a cornerstone of all that we do. Attendees will learn how external compassion and protecting themselves from negative news, external influences, and lingering uncertainty can help. Alongside this is Internal compassion; attendees will see how critical self-talk can undermine personal productivity and happiness and what to do about it. Finally, attendees will learn how to engineer moments of joy and kindness into their day to support and fast-track health and happiness goals. By the end of this workshop, participants will have created their compassion habit blueprint to help them in their work and personal lives this year and beyond. "The Curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." — Carl Rodgers

Happier Through Habit Workshop

In this session with Dr mckee, participants will learn the power of habits to increase health and happiness regardless of what is happening in the outside world, How habits affect our happiness, productivity and health, The top evidence-based ways to boost daily productivity, health and happiness; how to harness the power of habits to bring more happiness into our day to day lives. By the end of this workshop, participants will have created their happiness habit blueprint to help build resilience to change and create more joy in their lives.

Featured Projects

Session Feedback

"Heather delivered the session in a clear, easy to digest way that gave everyone some tangible ways to make lasting habit changes." — Nikki Kirbell, Manager, Unilever

"Heather has so generously contributed to so many areas of our work this year, she has made an incredible amount of impact on our work in a small amount of time and we are so grateful for her." — Sara Rice, (R&D), lululemon HQ

"When you work with Dr Heather McKee you know you are in the presence of a true professional. You cannot ignore the passion she has for her field of behaviour change, especially around healthy living." — Edna Kissman, CEO - TWOM