Dr. Denise Quinlan
Champion of Future-Focused Leadership & Founding Director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience
Profile
Dr. Denise Quinlan’s mission is to Make Work Better by preventing burnout, protecting wellbeing, and enabling sustainable performance.
Her research and workshops inspire change, sharing practical tools and insights that generate hope. Recognised as one of the world’s leading resilience experts and a world-class facilitator, Denise’s immersive retreats and diploma-level training are most frequently described by participants as ‘life-changing.’
Dr. Quinlan’s ground-breaking academic research on the impact of strengths-based approaches to relationships, wellbeing, and social climate is acknowledged internationally. Her corporate background in the financial sector and management assessment and development, coupled with her expertise in course design and delivery, has enabled her to deliver transformative training to corporate leaders around the world.
As an award-winning guest lecturer at the globally ranked IE Business School in Madrid, Denise has taught strengths-based leadership to senior executives from Fortune 500 and leading global organisations. Co-founder of the Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Denise’s work is published in international academic journals and has won her international impact awards.
Feedback
Denise was a true gift to the team. Keep doing the amazing work that you are Denise, it is incredibly powerful.
Dr. Quinlan’s approach is steeped in solid science, coalesced with compassion and spiced with whole lot of fun. She won’t do the work for you, but she will be with you to harness your strengths so that you can do the work.
The whole audience is entranced the moment Denise starts to speak, her lilting Irish accent SO compelling... you wish she would never stop!
Not only does she engage the audience with a wonderful stage presence but she connects to them with powerful, intelligent, clearly articulated, thoughtful, relevant content.
Denise’s use of humour along with a genuine warmth and empathy enables her to deliver powerful messages.
I whole heartedly recommend her as a keynote speaker, facilitator, MC, or panellist. She is fantastic!
Dr Denise Quinlan was a fantastic addition to our in-house TRILife program. The audience were fascinated by what they were hearing which Denise communicated in a funny and down to earth way. Denise was an absolute pleasure to have and her friendly and approachable nature created a wonderful atmosphere for our event.
Denise is a fantastic speaker and brings a lot of energy and useful information to her talks.
Denise was well prepared and engaged well with the audience. She followed the brief provided and added in mentions of our brand when appropriate.
Exceptional delivery with empathy and warmth.
Denise was absolutely PERFECT for our event. She is very warm and engaging and has a way of presenting information that is easy to listen to. We received a lot of positive feedback afterwards.
Everyone loved Denise's presentation - her messages were pragmatic and practical; her expertise was clearly on display and her delivery was compassionate.
Amazing and very easy to communicate with - a delight!
Denise was absolutely fabulous, she managed to connect with some very stoic funeral directors.
Denise engaged with our staff so well. The feedback I have been receiving since her presentation has been wonderful. Lots of our staff are now 'accepting the good' and celebrating the wins... Massive thank you to Dr. Denise.
Excellent talk, lovely person, really thankful to spend time together.
