- Sustainable high performance expert
- Host of top 1.5% podcast Live Greatly
- TEDx speaker on redefining work/life balance
Kristel Bauer helps leaders and teams sustain high performance in demanding environments while strengthening resilience, optimism, and wellbeing.
Kristel has worked with organizations across industries and draws on her background as a Physician Assistant in Integrative Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine to deliver insights into stress, resilience, and human performance. She partners with leaders to translate science-backed strategies into practical approaches that improve focus, leadership impact, and team outcomes.
Kristel's signature Work-Life Tango Framework, introduced in her award-winning book Work-Life Tango, helps professionals navigate competing priorities with clarity, intention, and energy, moving beyond outdated ideas of work-life balance to create sustainable momentum at work and in life. Kristel also hosts the Live Greatly Podcast, ranked in the top 1.5% globally, where she explores leadership, wellbeing, and high performance with experts, business leaders, and athletes. Her work has been featured in NBC, ABC, FOX, Forbes, and other prominent media outlets, and she was recognized as a Top Impact Speaker by Real Leaders Magazine.
Audiences leave Kristel’s sessions with actionable strategies they can implement immediately, tools to strengthen resilience and energy, and frameworks to create cultures where people thrive under pressure. Her interactive and engaging approach equips leaders to perform at their best while fostering sustainable success across their teams.
Book Kristel when you need a speaker who combines science, storytelling, and practical tools to help leaders and teams perform at peak levels without burning out.
Kristel's Showreel and Videos
Topics, Sessions and Talks
Embracing A Growth Mindset In Your Business
Kristel Bauer explores how mindset, emotional intelligence, and communication underpin effective leadership and strong teams. Drawing on research from healthcare and integrative psychiatry, she reveals common blind spots that hinder connection and collaboration, then offers actionable methods to strengthen empathy, self-awareness, and constructive communication. The session equips attendees to reduce friction, support innovation, and build environments where people feel heard, valued, and motivated to excel.
Find Your Imperfect Happy
In the relentless pursuit of business excellence, it's easy to overlook the crucial role happiness plays in organizational success. Yet, research shows that happier leaders cultivate more engaged and productive teams, and happier employees are more efficient, innovative, and resilient. Kristel Bauer addresses this issue by presenting actionable strategies to prioritise happiness, leading to higher profitability, retention, and innovation. Attendees will learn actionable methods to foster a culture of happiness that drives organizational excellence.
Achieving Peak Performance With High Power Habits
Kristel Bauer explains how daily routines shape long-term success, showing how habits influence productivity, decision-making, and workplace momentum. Using evidence from behavioral science, integrative psychiatry, and business performance, she highlights why habit-building efforts often fail and presents practical methods to create routines that last. The session covers optimal productivity windows, time-blocking, effective breaks, and strategies for overcoming procrastination, offering teams a grounded pathway to sustained performance.
The Work-Life Tango For Sustainable Success
Kristel Bauer challenges the outdated concept of work-life balance, advocating for a more flexible approach through her Work-Life Tango Framework. She emphasises the importance of aligning work and life with intention, energy, and adaptability to shifting demands. Attendees will learn to make intentional choices around mindset, boundaries, and daily habits, ultimately transforming their professional and personal experiences. Participants will leave inspired to enhance clarity, purpose, and meaningful engagement in their lives.
Embrace Change: Unlocking Motivation For Growth
Kristel Bauer examines how uncertainty can become a catalyst for growth when approached with clarity and purpose. She combines science-based strategies with relatable storytelling to help teams shift away from perfectionism, build motivation, and strengthen trust in their abilities. The session shows how to embed growth-focused habits, boost happiness, and create workplaces that stay energized through change, offering a compelling blend of practicality and encouragement for modern organizations.
Why We Recommend Booking Kristel
Kristel Bauer delivers science-backed strategies that boost employee happiness, performance, and retention, drawing from her expertise in integrative psychiatry and corporate wellness. Book Kristel to empower your team with practical tools that drive lasting results and give your organization a true competitive edge.
Kristel Bauer is a gift. I have worked in the public/private sector for nearly 40 years and believe she is the best Keynote conference speaker I’ve ever encountered. It is not an overstatement to describe her style and message as “life changing.
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Director, CSEA Employee Benefit Fund
Kristel Bauer is a phenomenal guest speaker who recently delivered the keynote for our cityCURRENT signature speaker series in Memphis, Tennessee. Her warm, positive energy radiated throughout the room and her customized presentation focused on “Finding Your Imperfect Happy” was filled with helpful tips for how we can show up for ourselves and others, how we can create new habits and protect and refocus our energy for productive outcomes, and how we can embrace the imperfections in life and career to find happiness and fulfillment. From the pre-event planning and finding the perfect topic blend for our audience through a delightful dinner with executives from our hosting corporate partner to her impactful and valuable keynote presentation the next morning, Kristel was an utmost professional and such a delight to work with and host. She made it easy, she made it fun, and she hit a home run with our audience, which is still sending us great feedback from the event. So, we’re looking forward to booking Kristel as a speaker for more events in the future.
Kristel recently joined us at our national women’s management and mentorship event, kicking us off with an inspiring keynote about Achieving Peak Performance and Redefining Work/Life Balance that resonated with all the women in the room, leaving them feeling both encouraged and motivated. Kristel’s authenticity exudes from her on stage and makes you feel like you are having a conversation with your best friend all while learning powerful tools and techniques to use in your personal and professional life.
