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Talks that move minds.

Incisive and charismatic, Dr. Shimi Kang captivates, educates, delights, and delivers a unique experience not to be missed.

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Hundreds of events. One unforgettable hour.

Dr. Shimi Kang is a dynamic, entertaining, and experienced keynote speaker. She has presented at hundreds of events worldwide, from the world’s largest conferences to customized workshops for small groups. As a panelist who is comfortable in diverse settings, she challenges audiences to explore their full potential with one-of-a-kind presentations that cultivate creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.

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Signature keynotes

Choose the talk your audience needs.

Every keynote pairs the latest neuroscience with stories from two decades of clinical practice, and is tailored to your audience and event.

Neuroleadership
Corporate

The Future Ready Mind

The Three-Brain Framework for Future-Ready Leadership

Today’s world demands future-ready leadership: adaptive, intuitive, collaborative, and grounded in human well-being. In this transformative keynote, Dr. Shimi Kang reveals how leaders can access their full intelligence by integrating three crucial neural centres, our three brains: the head (thinking), the heart (feeling), and the gut (intuition).

Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience, research, and global organizational work, Dr. Kang demonstrates how burnout and outdated leadership habits trap teams in reactive mode, and how neurobiologically aligned practices unlock calm, connection, and creativity, improving wellness, culture, adaptability, and bottom-line productivity.

Blending engaging storytelling with real-world examples and practical exercises, leaders walk away knowing how to build trust, foster innovation, and guide their teams through change and uncertainty with confidence.

Key takeaways
Understand the neuroscience of the three brains: discover how your head, heart, and gut brains work together and how to activate neuro-leadership skills
Replace stress-based reactive decision-making and micromanagement with neuro-leadership grounded in intuition, trust, adaptability, and self-motivation
Master four science-based practices: the Vagal Reset (gut brain), Connection Before Content (heart brain), a Play Mindset (head brain), and Intuitive Decision Mapping (all three brains)
Workplace
AI & Technology

The Tech Solution

Reclaim Cognitive Capital, Reduce the Health Tax, and Master the AI Revolution

In her book The Tech Solution, Dr. Shimi Kang describes technology as the fire of our time. Harnessing fire was a major step in human evolution: those who did it well went further and farther, and those who did not burned down the village. We are at the same pivotal moment in human history, with the incredible power of tech all around us.

AI and new technologies hold the promise of unimaginable advances. Yet tech use is linked to stress, burnout, and numerous mental health disorders, while tech-related sedentary behaviour, poor posture, and blue light exposure are correlated with insomnia, diabetes, heart disease, and more.

The tech we use every day was designed to hook and hold our attention, and it is now designed to become our trusted colleague, mentor, and confidante, all through sophisticated manipulation of the brain’s neurobiology. In this keynote, Dr. Kang simplifies the neuroscience into the five ingredients of a tech diet: a universal framework and a sustainable path to mastering the fire of our time.

Three objectives for the modern workplace
Reclaim cognitive capital: neurobiological tools to resist digital hooks and manage presenteeism, allowing deeper focus, productivity, and more creative problem-solving
Reduce the health tax: proactively address root causes of digital fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, polarization, and disconnection, lowering absenteeism and improving resilience
Master the AI revolution: a strategic framework for using AI that enhances human innovation and connection, ensuring your AI transformation is productive, ethical, and sustainable
Experience

Breathwork: The Vagal Reset

A guided, science-based breathwork experience that calms the nervous system in minutes. Rooted in the neuroscience of the vagus nerve, it gives audiences a practical daily tool for stress, focus, and recovery.

Leadership

Dolphin Leadership

Why balanced, adaptable leaders outperform in times of change. Lessons from the science of motivation and resilience.

Schools & Youth

The Self-Motivated Mind

How to spark lasting drive in young people, without pressure, burnout, or bribes. Built on the science of motivation and 20 years of clinical work.

Book Shimi to speak
Every talk can be delivered as a keynote, half-day workshop, or virtual session.
Formats

Built around your event.

Keynote

45–60 minutes of story-driven neuroscience for main stages and conferences.

Workshop

Interactive half-day or full-day sessions with practical tools teams use the next morning.

Panel & fireside

A seasoned panelist comfortable in diverse settings, from broadcast to boardroom.

Virtual

Live polls, Q&A, and full interactivity. Engagement that survives the screen.

From event organizers

Dr. Kang left us all feeling like we had spent an hour learning from a new (wiser) friend. She is an outstanding presenter with a deep well of knowledge that she shares with ease.

North Carolina Association of Independent Schools
Virtual professional development

Dr. Kang was tremendous as both a presenter and a person. The audience was captivated by her words of wisdom and inspiration. There was interaction throughout.

Syncrude Canada
Corporate keynote

Dr. Kang’s lecture was outstanding with strong content, helpful tips, and suggestions. She developed a bond and engaged the 450 attendees from the minute she walked on stage.

Davis Lecture Series
University of California

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