Wellness Keynote Speakers
Evidence-based keynote speakers on longevity, mental fitness, burnout, and workplace wellbeing for HR summits, benefits programs, and healthcare events.
Wellness programming earns its slot on the agenda when it is built on evidence rather than platitudes. This roster leans on researchers and practitioners with real data behind them: Dan Buettner distills lessons from the world's longest-lived communities, Harvard's Arthur C. Brooks teaches the science of happiness, Jay Shetty translates ancient mindfulness practice for modern workloads, and Kasley Killam brings peer-reviewed research on social health and connection. Around them sit clinicians, caregivers, survivors, and workplace-culture experts who can speak to burnout, financial stress, healthy aging, and resilience with genuine authority. Whether the room is an HR and benefits summit, a healthcare industry congress, or a company-wide wellbeing kickoff, the work is the same: match the speaker's evidence and story to the outcomes your audience is actually accountable for, so the session changes behavior instead of just filling an hour.
Longevity & Health Science
What actually extends healthspan, from Dan Buettner's Blue Zones research to Joan Lunden and Emma Heming Willis on healthy aging and caregiving.
Dan Buettner
Founder of Blue Zones, National Geographic Fellow, and three-time Emmy winner whose research on the world's longest-lived communities became a Netflix series. The definitive evidence-based voice on longevity, and a proven headliner for wellness programs and healthcare audiences.
Joan Lunden
Hosted Good Morning America for nearly two decades, then turned a public breast cancer battle into bestselling books and national health advocacy. Brings journalistic credibility and hard-won patient perspective to healthy aging, caregiving, and women's health for benefits and healthcare audiences.
Emma Heming Willis
NYT bestselling author and founder of a brain-health wellness brand, now one of the most visible caregiver advocates in America following her husband Bruce Willis's dementia diagnosis. Speaks to caregiver burnout, brain health, and self-care with rare candor and reach.
Nick Webb
Healthcare futurist, bestselling author, and medical-device inventor who advises health systems on where care delivery, consumer technology, and prevention are heading. Gives wellness and benefits leaders a clear forward view of the tools reshaping employee health.
Don Brooks
Fitness trainer to high-profile clients who translates elite training into routines that survive travel, deadlines, and desk jobs. A practical, energetic session for wellness program launches where audiences need movement habits they will actually keep.
Mindfulness & Mental Fitness
The trainable science of a calmer, happier mind, led by Jay Shetty, Harvard's Arthur C. Brooks, and founding Headspace CMO Dr. David Cox.
Jay Shetty
Former monk turned #1 NYT bestselling author of Think Like a Monk and host of On Purpose, one of the world's largest health and wellness podcasts. Delivers mindfulness and purpose at global-headliner scale for kickoffs and wellness summits.
Arthur C. Brooks
Harvard professor who teaches the university's course on happiness, #1 NYT bestselling co-author of Build the Life You Want with Oprah Winfrey, and longtime Atlantic columnist. Brings rigorous social science to wellbeing, meaning, and the second half of career.
Dr. David Cox
Physician and founding Chief Medical Officer of Headspace, where he built the clinical case for digital mindfulness at scale. Speaks to mental fitness with a doctor's evidence standard, ideal for benefits leaders who need science, not woo.
Pandit Dasa
Spent 15 years as a monk in New York City before bringing mindful leadership to corporate audiences, with an author's clarity on focus, stress, and ego at work. A grounded, practical mindfulness voice for all-hands meetings and leadership offsites.
Anna David
Author of multiple books and podcast host who turned her own recovery into a candid, practical framework for habit change, goal-setting, and sustainable wellness. Connects with audiences who are skeptical of perfection narratives and need honest, doable steps.
Workplace Wellbeing & Connection
Burnout, belonging, and the measurable drivers of thriving teams, with Kasley Killam, Adam Markel, and financial-wellness expert Jean Chatzky.
Kasley Killam
Harvard-trained social scientist, founder of Social Health Labs, and author of The Art and Science of Connection. The leading research voice on why relationships are as measurable and vital to health as diet and exercise, and what workplaces can do about it.
Adam Markel
Bestselling author of Change Proof and Pivot, CEO, and resilience researcher who reframes burnout as a recovery problem, not a workload problem. Gives leaders and HR teams an assessable, repeatable model for building change-proof cultures.
Matthew Emerzian
Founder and CEO of Every Monday Matters, author, and a candid voice on his own anxiety and depression. Built a movement around mattering, the evidence-linked sense of significance that drives engagement, mental health, and retention.
Jean Chatzky
CEO of HerMoney Media, longtime Today Show financial editor, NYT and WSJ bestselling author, and AARP financial ambassador. Financial stress is one of the top reported drivers of employee distraction and burnout, and she is the definitive mainstream authority on easing it.
Tim Gard
Hall of Fame speaker and humorist whose Comic Vision approach teaches audiences to defuse workplace stress with intentional humor. Decades of corporate and government audiences prove the format: hard laughs that leave behind usable coping tools.
Janet Lapp
Psychologist, author, and corporate change expert who has spent a career on why change exhausts people and how organizations can move through it healthier. Pairs clinical grounding with practical frameworks for teams in heavy transformation.
Kyle Scheele
Speaker and creator of joyfully absurd viral projects that have reached millions, with a comedy-forward case that play, novelty, and creative permission are legitimate wellbeing tools. A high-energy closer that leaves burned-out teams lighter and more connected.
Resilience & Recovery Stories
Proof that people rebuild, from John O'Leary and Allison Massari's survival stories to Scott Burrows' Vision, Mindset, Grit framework.
John O’Leary
Survived burns to nearly his entire body at age nine and became a national bestselling author of On Fire and In Awe. One of the most requested inspirational voices in America on resilience, gratitude, and choosing an engaged life after catastrophe.
Allison Massari
Artist and entrepreneur who survived catastrophic burns and rebuilt her life and career, now a leading keynote voice on compassion, resilience, and the human side of care. Especially powerful for healthcare events and caregiver-heavy audiences.
Scott Burrows
Paralyzed in a car accident at 19 after competing as a college football walk-on and kickboxer, then built a career on his Vision, Mindset, Grit framework. A structured, repeatable resilience model audiences can apply to health setbacks and workplace adversity.
Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray
Lifelong friends who crossed the 500-mile Camino de Santiago together, one pushing the other's wheelchair the entire way, chronicled in the book and film I'll Push You. A living case study in connection, caregiving, and what community makes possible.
The roster spans four distinct angles on wellbeing. Longevity and health science comes from Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner alongside healthy-aging advocates Joan Lunden and Emma Heming Willis; mindfulness and mental fitness from Jay Shetty, Harvard happiness researcher Arthur C. Brooks, and founding Headspace medical chief Dr. David Cox; workplace wellbeing and connection from social scientist Kasley Killam, resilience researcher Adam Markel, and financial-wellness authority Jean Chatzky; and lived-experience resilience from John O'Leary, Allison Massari, and Scott Burrows.
These speakers work across formats: an opening keynote that sets an evidence-forward tone for a benefits summit, a closing session that sends a wellness cohort home with practical habits, an all-hands or offsite talk on burnout and connection, or a headline slot at a healthcare industry congress. Booking through Rave Speakers means one call covers the shortlist, availability, fees, and logistics end to end.
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