Kristel Bauer
About
About Kristel Bauer - Award-Winning Author, Keynote Speaker on Sustainable High Performance & Leadership:
Kristel Bauer is a keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and award-winning author who helps leaders and teams thrive in demanding environments while strengthening resilience, engagement, and sustainable high performance. She is the founder of Live Greatly and was recognized as a 2026 Top Impact Speaker by Real Leaders Magazine.
Known for delivering energizing, research-backed keynote experiences, Kristel equips audiences with actionable strategies to elevate performance, navigate change effectively, and sustain success over the long term. Kristel brings a distinctive perspective to the stage shaped by her background in healthcare. She practiced as a Physician Assistant in Integrative Psychiatry and completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, experiences that give her unique insight into the science of stress, resilience, behavior change, and human performance.
Kristel is the award-winning author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business), where she introduces her signature Work-Life Tango Framework — a modern approach to helping professionals manage competing demands, strengthen well-being, and sustain high performance in today’s fast-paced world.
Kristel is also the host of the Live Greatly Podcast, ranked among the top 1.5% of podcasts globally, where she shares conversations and insights focused on leadership, resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable success. Her work has been featured in NBC, ABC, FOX, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and other prominent media outlets.
Blending behavioral science, positive psychology, leadership research, and engaging storytelling, Kristel helps organizations cultivate healthier, high-performing cultures where people can perform at a high level, navigate change more effectively, and sustain success without sacrificing well-being.
Topics and Audience Takeaways
What Kristel Bauer Talk About:
High-Performance Habits: Unlocking Energy, Focus, and Sustainable Success
Peak performance isn’t about doing more — it’s about building habits that consistently support clarity, energy, and meaningful progress.
In today’s fast-paced work environment, many professionals feel stretched thin as they juggle competing priorities while trying to stay focused and productive. In this energizing keynote, Kristel Bauer shares research-informed insights that help leaders and teams cultivate habits that support sustained high performance without sacrificing well-being.
Drawing from behavioral science, positive psychology, and her background as a Physician Assistant with experience in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel reveals how the right daily habits can dramatically improve focus, decision-making, productivity, and resilience.
Through engaging stories, science-backed insights, and powerful strategies audiences can immediately apply, this keynote helps individuals rethink how they work so they can perform at a high level while sustaining the energy needed for long-term success.
Participants discover how to:
- Build high-performance habits that support sustained peak performance
- Align daily work rhythms with natural cycles of focus and creativity
- Strengthen decision-making and clarity in demanding environments
- Reduce distractions and reclaim time and attention
- Sustain energy and productivity while avoiding burnout
Embracing Change: Unlocking Motivation and Momentum in Times of Uncertainty
Change is no longer an occasional disruption — it is the environment many organizations operate in every day.
In this inspiring keynote, Kristel Bauer equips audiences to thrive amid uncertainty by strengthening motivation, adaptability, and growth-oriented thinking.
Blending insights from behavioral science with engaging storytelling, Kristel explores how individuals and teams can shift their perspective on change, move beyond fear and perfectionism, and build the confidence needed to move forward with clarity.
Audiences discover how moments of uncertainty can become catalysts for learning, innovation, and meaningful progress.
Participants leave energized with actionable strategies that help them approach change with optimism, resilience, and forward momentum.
Participants discover how to:
- Reframe change as a catalyst for growth and opportunity
- Strengthen adaptability and confidence in uncertain environments
- Maintain motivation and focus during periods of transition
- Overcome fear, perfectionism, and resistance to change
- Lead teams through change with clarity and optimism
- Strengthen self-leadership habits that support sustainable high performance
- Lead with greater clarity, confidence, and resilience under pressure
- Improve communication, trust, and team connection
- Strengthen adaptability and emotional intelligence during times of change
- Elevate focus, decision-making, and leadership effectiveness in demanding environments
- Foster cultures of accountability, engagement, and collaboration
- Sustain high performance while supporting engagement, resilience, and team well-bein
Recent Publications
Kristel Bauer is a gift. I have worked in the public/private sector for nearly 40 years and believe she is the best Keynote conference speaker I’ve ever encountered. It is not an overstatement to describe her style and message as “life changing
Director, CSEA Employee Benefit Fund
