My Story
Bryan Turkel is a coach, facilitator, and speaker who helps high-achieving individuals and teams reconnect with what truly matters—and turn that clarity into meaningful action. Known for his emotional precision, original language, and lived clarity, Bryan blends psychology, storytelling, and experiential depth to create talks that shift people. His keynotes explore themes like resilience, perfectionism, and values-based motivation with warmth, humor, and grounded truth.
Building Resilience for Modern Challenges
In a world that demands constant optimization and performance, Bryan offers a different path one that builds genuine capacity, authentic well-being, and sustainable success.
Performance Psychology
Evidence-based strategies from performance psychology to build mental resilience and emotional capacity.
Improvisation Arts
Learn to adapt, respond, and thrive in uncertainty using principles from the art of improvisation.
Behavior Science
Practical applications of behavior science to create lasting change in how we respond to stress and challenges.
Inspiring Talks That Spark Lasting Change
Empowering leaders, teams, and individuals through transformative keynotes that blend insight, science, and real-world strategies to drive meaningful growth.
KEYNOTE
The Capacity Shift: Building Resilience in a World That Won't Slow Down
Modern life has become optimized, efficient, and overstimulating yet our ability to handle pressure, discomfort, and unpredictability is shrinking. This keynote explores why so many high-functioning individuals feel overstretched, emotionally volatile, or stuck in cycles of self-pressure and resistance and what we can do about it.
Drawing on principles from performance psychology, behavior science, and the art of improvisation, Bryan shares how to build lasting cognitive and emotional capacity. Audiences will learn how to shift their internal responses when things don’t go to plan—moving from resistance to momentum in a way that preserves energy, enhances clarity, and restores a grounded sense of control.
Unlock the power of:
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Chaos Tolerance: Create more internal spaciousness to live, work, and decide in a messy world without needing to control what you can't.
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Emotional Resilience: Adapt to uncertainty without getting stuck in perfectionism, frustration, or collapse.
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Mental Agility: Strengthen your ability to shift gears without burning out or spiraling.
Leave with:
Expanded Capacity: Perform at a higher level with less stress
Real-Time Resilience Tools: Roll with the punches and stay on track when life doesn't.
TransformativeKeynote Presentations
Each keynote is designed to create lasting change offering practical tools, deep insights, and actionable strategies for modern challenges.
KEYNOTE
The Capacity Shift: Building Resilience in a World That Won't Slow Down
Modern life has become optimized, efficient, and overstimulating yet our ability to handle pressure, discomfort, and unpredictability is shrinking. This keynote explores why so many high-functioning individuals feel overstretched, emotionally volatile, or stuck in cycles of self-pressure and resistance—and what we can do about it.
Key Focus Areas:
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Chaos Tolerance: Create more internal spaciousness to live, work, and decide in a messy world—without needing to control what you can't.
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Emotional Resilience: Adapt to uncertainty without getting stuck in perfectionism, frustration, or collapse.
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Mental Agility: Strengthen your ability to shift gears without burning out or spiraling.
Participants Will Leave With:
Expanded Capacity: Perform at a higher level with less stress
Real-Time Resilience Tools: Roll with the punches and stay on track when life doesn't.
KEYNOTE
The Instagram Illusion: Reclaiming Well-Being in the Age of Perfectionism
Perfectionism has become a silent epidemic—fueling anxiety, burnout, and quiet shame. In a world obsessed with high achievement, flawlessness, and public performance, many people find themselves stuck in cycles of self-criticism, paralysis, and shame.
Key Focus Areas:
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Understand how perfectionism distorts your sense of self and why nothing ever feels 'enough'
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Break free from all-or-nothing thinking and reclaim a more workable way to grow
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Loosen the grip of shame and self-correction - and finally feel present without needing to prove anything.
Participants Will Leave With:
Replace the need to be perfect with permission to be whole
Develop authentic self-compassion and resilience
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From Autopilot to Aligned: Reclaiming Purpose in a Disconnected World
We're not just experiencing burnout. We're facing a deeper crisis: a loss of meaning, motivation, and direction. In response to an increasingly chaotic world, more people are slipping into autopilot checking boxes, hitting milestones, but slowly disconnecting.
Key Focus Areas:
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Understand the real reason behind the disconnect—even if everything looks fine on paper
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Create a personal compass that leads you to fulfilling, values-driven behavior across all areas of life
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Reconnect with a sense of internal direction that's both energizing and sustainable
Participants Will Leave With:
Reclaim a sense of purpose by consciously aligning your actions with your values
Create sustainable fulfillment in relationships, work, and life
