Mandy Gill
Resiliency & Workplace Wellness Expert
Adventurer, Teamwork & Collaboration
Mandy Gill is one of the best conference speakers on mental health, resiliency and change in the future of work. She helps strengthen leaders and their teams with practical business strategies to faciliate collaboration, build resilient relationships, and ultimately succeed at greater levels than they ever thought possible.
After building and scaling one of the world's most effective behavior change apps, Hooked on Healthy Habits, Mandy Gill has amassed one of the world's largest datasets focused on goal-setting, resilience, and maximizing positive results with over 10,000 clients coached to extraordinary achievements. Drawing on this extensive research and her personal journey of extreme endurance, Mandy is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and bestselling author who helps leaders and their teams not just survive but thrive in the face of uncertainty by equipping them with field-tested strategies to navigate inevitable challenges and transform setbacks into competitive advantages.
Mandy brings unparalleled authenticity to her message through her extraordinary athletic accomplishments, including training for and racing in 100+ kilometer (with 20,000 feet elevation gain!) ultra-marathons all over the world. As a passionate mountaineer, she has climbed some of the highest peaks in Nepal and across the globe. She masterfully draws compelling parallels between the life-or-death decision-making required in extreme mountain environments and the high-stakes challenges leaders face daily in boardrooms, on manufacturing floors, and in virtual team settings. This unique perspective has made her expertise invaluable to diverse organizations, from elite military units like the US Navy to global corporations including adidas, docusign, TD Bank, and Manulife. +
Before becoming a renowned resilience expert, Mandy established herself as a respected media personality in the broadcast world, where her career included memorable interviews with global icons like Lady Gaga and Rihanna. This media background, combined with her entrepreneurial success as a tech founder and CEO, gives her a rare ability to connect with audiences across industries and leadership levels.
As a Harvard Leadership Program graduate and two-time Women of Distinction Award nominee, Mandy brings both academic rigor and real-world credibility to her work. She is passionate about creating systemic change by leveling the playing field and opening doors for women across the globe, work that extends far beyond her speaking engagements into active mentorship and advocacy.
Her latest book, "Reset with Resilience: A Guide to Greatness When Your Goals Go Sideways", released in January 2025, has already achieved bestseller status and provides readers with the same data-backed frameworks she shares with Fortune 500 companies. The book synthesizes insights from her massive behavioral dataset, personal extreme experiences, and years of working with high-performing teams to offer a practical roadmap for turning inevitable obstacles into breakthrough opportunities.
Whether addressing C-suite executives navigating digital transformation, frontline managers building resilient teams, or entrepreneurs scaling their ventures, Mandy's message resonates because it's grounded in both empirical evidence and lived experience that few speakers can match. --
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Mandy Gill - Speaking Presentations (Live or Virtual)
Reset with Resilience: How to Reset Quickly and Turn Setbacks Into Forward Momentum
In a world where priorities shift overnight and uncertainty shows up without warning, setbacks are no longer the exception - they’re part of everyday leadership. What separates high-performing teams from struggling ones isn’t the absence of adversity; it’s the ability to reset quickly and regain forward momentum.
This keynote gives audiences that reset method. +
Mandy draws from climbing some of the highest peaks in Nepal and around the world, along with her Harvard Leadership Program background, writing a bestselling book Reset with Resilience, and creating one of the world’s largest behavior-change datasets - more than 10,000 client journeys tracked across the past decade through the Hooked on Healthy Habits app. These insights reveal exactly why people stall during uncertainty and what allows them to restart with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Blending science with lived experience from extreme environments, Mandy teaches a practical reset framework that helps individuals and teams move from discouraged to back-in-motion - no matter what comes their way.
Audiences don’t just leave inspired - they’ll leave equipped, knowing how to reset fast and convert setbacks into forward momentum.
This keynote leaves attendees with:
- a repeatable reset method grounded in research and real-world performance
- tools to transform setbacks into for deeper clarity and better decisions
- behavior-science strategies that reveal how to break old patterns and rebuild consistency
- strategies to maintain focus even when motivation dips or plans fall apart
- psychological flexibility enabling quicker, more confident adaptation
- a renewed sense of agency shifting from “why is this happening?” To “here’s how i move forward.” --
The Resilience Advantage: How to Lead with Confidence & Clarity Through Constant Change
Today’s organizations are navigating nonstop change - shifting priorities, evolving expectations, and pressure that never seems to let up. Most people are expected to adapt quickly, stay focused, and perform through uncertainty…without the proper tools of how to.
This keynote turns resilience from concept into capability +
Mandy draws on insights from her lessons learned in extreme environments, Harvard Leadership Program training, and research from over 10,000 behavior-change clients collected through the Hooked on Healthy Habits app she created over a decade ago. Through these combined lenses, she shows audiences that resilience is not a personality trait - it is a trainable capability that strengthens with practice.
With her signature blend of grounded wisdom, lived experience, and research as a best selling author on resilience, Mandy provides audiences with tools that are both credible and immediately actionable. Mandy teaches people how to stay clear, calm, and effective when everything around them shifts.
Audiences learn exactly how to lead themselves and others with confidence and clarity through constant change
This keynote leaves attendees with:
- a practical resilience system rooted in behavior science and real-world application.
- Tools to stay grounded under pressure even when conditions shift without warning.
- Decision-making strategies drawn from extreme-environment leadership.
- A reset method to interrupt overwhelm and regain clarity quickly.
- The ability to maintain momentum rather than lose progress during challenges.
- A leadership mindset shift from reaction to intentional, confident action. --
Hosting & MC-ing +
Mandy has over 20 years of experience emceeing and hosting large events thanks to her previous career as a top 40 Radio Morning Show Co-Host. She's introduced numerous artists to sold-out audiences, including Rihanna at her Last Girl On Earth Tour. --
What a great way to kick off the final conference day and boost motivation and inspiration for our own goal setting as we head back to the office and help clients reach their goals! Thank you for a great energetic presentation.
–Manulife Securities
What a great way to kick off the final conference day and boost motivation and inspiration for our own goal setting as we head back to the office and help clients reach their goals! Thank you for a great energetic presentation.
–Manulife Securities
Mandy is an extremely hard working leadership speaker. Her commitment, and energy are infectious to everyone she connects with. I can’t wait to see what [the future] has in store for her.
–Senior Global Manager, Strategic Partnerships - adidas
Unwavering support is what employee engagement and retention requires. When it comes to educating, Mandy's got the perfect mix of knowledge, strength, and compassion. Don’t let her sweet demeanour fool you, she’s tough and will make you work!
–Rogers Sports & Media
What an inspirational keynote. Not only did it make me correct my course of action for today, but for the future of myself and my clients. There was such value in the discussion to show up, start how you want to finish, and use key tools to not let fear get in your way.
–Senior Economist, PHD - Statistics Canada





