Beth Healey
Beth Healey empowers companies to lead under pressure, sharing survival strategies from Antarctic research expeditions.
Why book Beth Healey for your next event
- Gain actionable strategies to build resilience, drawn from extreme Antarctic isolation and medical missions in the world’s harshest environments.
- Transform leadership mindsets with captivating insights on teamwork, endurance, and performance beyond the comfort zone.
- Overwintered at Antarctica’s Concordia Station, conducting ESA research to shape the future of human spaceflight and extreme environment survival.
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Mastering Resilience in Extreme Environments
Unleash the power of resilience and innovation with a keynote from an ESA research doctor who overwintered in Antarctica’s “White Mars.” Drawing on years of emergency medicine across the NHS, Siberia, and the North Pole, she delivers captivating lessons on thriving in isolation, leading under pressure, and embracing uncertainty. Her pioneering research informs space agencies and transforms how organizations tackle adversity. As a visionary in telemedicine, AI healthcare, and extreme environment support for National Geographic, she equips leaders to navigate the toughest challenges with clarity and courage.
Keynote Speaker Beth Healey is internationally renowned for her extraordinary expertise in resilience, leadership, and innovation in extreme environments. As a medical doctor and research physician for the European Space Agency, she overwintered in Antarctica at the Concordia Station, known as “White Mars,” where she led pioneering research on how isolation and extreme conditions impact human performance, decision-making, and wellbeing.
Drawing from years of experience delivering emergency medical care in the NHS, the Swiss Alps, Siberia, and the North Pole, Beth offers organizations powerful lessons in crisis management, adaptability, and building unshakable teams. Her insights are especially relevant for companies navigating rapid change, remote operations, or high-pressure environments.
Beyond her groundbreaking Antarctic research, Beth Healey is a thought leader in telemedicine, AI healthcare innovation, and remote diagnostics. She serves as CEO of TrackER, a digital health platform transforming patient care, and advises start-ups at the forefront of space medicine technology.
When you book Beth Healey for your event, you gain an inspiring perspective that empowers leaders to thrive beyond the comfort zone. Her keynotes combine captivating stories, scientific expertise, and practical tools to future-proof your organization’s mindset and resilience.
Book Beth Healey for your event to inspire your teams with proven strategies for thriving in adversity and driving innovation under pressure.
Keynotes
Keynote by Beth Healey:
Coping with Isolation
The effects of isolation take their toll on our physical and mental health as we’ve adapted to a new normal in how we live, interact and work. Having overwintered in Antarctica, where she researched the physiological and psychological effects of isolation on the overwinter crew, Beth has first-hand experience on coping with isolation and how to overcome the difficulties it presents. Her research has since been used to help inform space agencies of the challenges that future astronauts on long duration spaceflight missions may face, as well as develop medical models required for such missions. In this talk Beth draws on her experience and research into isolation, to share advice and coping strategies and to help us thrive.
Keynote by Beth Healey:
Transfer of Technology
Having worked across a range of areas, Beth feels passionately about sharing ideas and technological advancements between industries. She is currently part of a working group looking to see how we can use space technology to improve healthcare on earth, specifically developing healthcare systems where remote access to both specialists, diagnostics and training is transforming healthcare provision worldwide. Her research into the effects of isolation and extreme environment physiology in Antarctica has also been used to help inform space agencies of the challenges future astronauts may face on long duration spaceflight missions. In this talk Beth will explore how a fresh perspective and improved sharing of both ideas and failures can promote success across all industries.
Keynote by Beth Healey:
High Performing Teams
From participating on an overland traverse, driving a Caterpillar tractor 1,200 km across the Antarctic plateau, to working as part of a prehospital medical team performing lifesaving roadside interventions in the Swiss Alps, Beth has experienced first-hand the importance of successful teamwork. In this talk Beth uses her experience to illustrate how to maximise optimal performance from your team in order to achieve success.
Keynote by Beth Healey:
Climate Change
From her work in the polar regions, Beth has witnessed first-hand the effects of climate change. From time working in a local Inuit village hospital she has seen how hunters have had to adapt their hunting styles to chaining migration patterns of local animals their way of life. Following repeated visits to the same areas she has seen retreating glaciers and climates becoming increasingly unstable. She has also experienced more frequent encounters with polar bears as they take greater risks in search of food. In this talk Beth will share what she has witnessed, explore the impact of COVID-19 on climate change, and discuss developments in science and technology that will shape the future of sustainable living.
