Public Speaking & Consulting
Dr. Kate Lund is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Resilience Expert
About Dr. Lund
Dr. Kate Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and resilience expert with more than two decades of experience helping children, students, athletes, and parents thrive. Her work blends cutting-edge psychology with actionable, real-world tools—empowering people to grow within their own unique context. She is the author of Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting and Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive in School, Sports and Life, and she has supported hundreds of families, schools, and organizations nationwide.
Drawing on more than 20 years of clinical experience and her bestselling book Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting, Dr. Kate Lund delivers high-impact, research-driven talks that blend emotional intelligence, resilience science, and practical tools. Each presentation is tailored for K–12 communities, college campuses, or corporate Parenting ERGs seeking to support parents and students in meaningful, sustainable ways.
K-12 Schools: Building Resilient Students, Classrooms, and Communities
Research-backed tools to help every child thrive within their unique context.
Dr. Lund equips K–12 schools with practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen student resilience, support healthy emotional development, and create thriving classroom environments. Sessions cover topics such as emotionally intelligent teaching, resilience-building for student-athletes, and helping students manage stress and pressure. Each presentation empowers educators, parents, and students with skills they can use immediately to foster confidence, well-being, and connection across the school community.
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A practical, evidence-based framework for helping children develop confidence, emotional strength, and healthy problem-solving skills.
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Tools teachers can use to build connection, reduce overwhelm, and create learning environments where students thrive behaviorally, socially, and academically.
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How young athletes can balance ambition with emotional well-being, avoiding burnout and building lifelong resilience.
Colleges & Universities: Resilience, Well-Being, and Thriving in High-Pressure Environments
Empowering college students to navigate stress, identity, and performance with confidence.
Dr. Lund supports college students during one of the most demanding transitions of their lives. Her talks explore emotional competence, stress management, identity development, navigating burnout, and building resilience within one’s own unique context. Each session blends research with real-world tools, offering students a clear framework to enhance well-being and succeed academically, socially, and personally.
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A powerful roadmap for navigating identity development, academic demands, stress, and mental health challenges during the college years.
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Frameworks for managing pressure, maintaining emotional health, and cultivating sustainable routines that support academic and athletic success.
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How self-awareness, emotional regulation, and adaptive problem-solving boost success in school, relationships, and early adulthood.
Corporate Parenting ERGs: Supporting Working Parents in Raising Resilient, Emotionally Healthy Kids
Actionable strategies that strengthen families and workplaces.
Dr. Lund delivers practical, high-impact sessions for Parenting ERGs seeking to support employees navigating the dual demands of work and family life. Topics include emotionally intelligent parenting, reducing overwhelm, nurturing resilience in children, and building sustainable routines that help families thrive. Her evidence-based framework provides working parents with clear, actionable tools that reduce stress and improve both personal and family well-being, along with workplace performance.
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A practical, evidence-based framework for helping children develop confidence, emotional strength, and healthy problem-solving skills.
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Tools teachers can use to build connection, reduce overwhelm, and create learning environments where students thrive behaviorally, socially, and academically.
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How young athletes can balance ambition with emotional well-being, avoiding burnout and building lifelong resilience.
Kate’s Books & Articles:
Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting
A modern guide for overwhelmed parents to reclaim calm, strength, and connection.
Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive In School, Sports and Life
Signature Talk
Watch one of Dr. Lund’s signature talks, Finding the Ordinary Within the Extraordinary: The Superpower Children Need.
Originally delivered on TEDx stage
Testimonials: What They’re Saying
“Hiring Dr. Kate Lund to work with my college golf team has been invaluable for our program. She is an incredible coach and listener. Her energy and enthusiasm are contagious. We have worked hard to build a championship culture at GHC and bringing Dr. Kate onboard has been a real game changer for us. The GHC Men’s Golf Team won their first team event in almost fifty years and we had two players win individually.
She has helped the team through the mental blocks and barriers to reach their success in golf and life.
Her techniques were perfect for our players to learn to have more resilience in competition; especially coping with tournament jitters. They have gained a more focused mind, rather than riding the wave of emotions and nerves. If you currently have a good program, Dr. Kate can take you to be a great program! Dr. Kate has my highest recommendation.”
Ann Swanson- Head Coach- Grays Harbor College - Pacific Northwest Golf Association Hall of Fame Member
“Aristotle believed that the seat of human thought and consciousness was not in the brain but in the heart”. Personally, I have a deep belief that there is a lot of truth in that statement!
Dr. Kate Lund has brought a measurable and simple way to help our team identify and understand this process.
We believe when elite athletes find a way to connect personal emotions and feelings to the processes in the mind associated with elite level performance special things can happen.”
Marc Chandonnet – Head Coach – Seattle University –Men’s and Women’s Golf Teams
“We loved it when Kate came and introduced my second graders to HeartMath. Over a six-week period she taught them about the connection between our hearts and our minds.
She gave the students strategies and tools to self-regulate, cultivate social-emotional skills, and develop resilience.
The students looked forward to her visits each week. The most rewarding aspect was when I heard kids continue to talk about and practice some of those strategies throughout the rest of the school year.”
Sandy Figel- Second Grade Teacher- Brighton School
“Dr. Kate Lund came into my classroom and introduced my students to the ways in which they can find inner peace and reduce anxiety in any situation. As anxiety is on the rise in our lives and children are becoming anxious at young ages, this was such a beneficial program to help students deal with their feelings and get in control of their breathing. HeartMath was a valuable resource for students to use as they tackled school work, extracurricular activities, and peer pressure.
As a teacher, I was very thankful and appreciative of Kate taking the time to show me all of the resources that I could use and share with my students as well as guiding us through the lessons.
The more that we begin teaching our children to be in better control of themselves, the better choices that they will make in their future.”
Estefania Gabriel- Fourth Grade Teacher- Brighton School
Talks and Workshops Include:
Research-backed strategies grounded in clinical psychology & resilience science
Practical tools audiences can implement immediately
Real-world stories that connect theory to lived experience
Customized content tailored to schools, universities, & corporate teamse science, and optimizing family well-being
Why Organizations Book Dr. Lund:
Highly relatable, real-world tools backed by clinical expertise
Engaging, warm, and deeply practical presentation style
Tailored content for each audience: K–12, college, or corporate
Immediate takeaways parents and students can use the same day
Expertise in emotional intelligence, resilience science, and optimizing family well-being
