Dr. Aaron Balick is an internationally recogniised keynote speaker delivering cutting-edge high-quality information in a manner that informs, engages, and entertains.
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Technology is reshaping the ways people think, behave, and relate — often faster than they can consciously process. My keynotes help audiences slow down, see clearly, and understand what’s happening beneath the surface. Drawing on depth psychology, contemporary research, and over two decades of clinical and organisational work, I translate the hidden emotional and relational dynamics of modern life into ideas people can actually use. My talks are sharp, human, occasionally provocative, and designed to stay with audiences long after the lights go down.
Signature Keynotes
​​AI, Ethics, and the Modern Psyche: ​
How artificial intelligence is reshaping minds, meaning, and human relationships
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AI isn’t just changing the world of work, it’s influencing the architecture of our inner -worlds. As people increasingly turn to machines for reassurance, advice, intimacy, and decision-making, new psychological and ethical challenges emerge. Organisations are navigating anxiety, uncertainty, over-reliance, moral unease, and a profound shift in how people relate to their work, their leaders, and themselves.
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This keynote cuts through hype and and moral panic to explore the psychological reality of AI: what it does to identity, thinking, emotional regulation, and human connection.
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Key themes:
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The Digitally Mediated Self: How AI reshapes identity, meaning-making, and the internal world
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Outsourcing Our Minds: what happens when we let AI think for us and tell us how we feel
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AI and Mental Health: Loneliness, connection, and the human/machine relationship
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Staying Human in an Artificially Intelligent Hyper-Connected World​​​​​​
Testimonials:
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“Loved this – my brain hurts from how much I need to process and reflect on. Thank you!”
"Clever, brilliant, funny, scary, frightening, chilling, Black Mirror, horror movie, unnerving.”
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“Your approach remains curious, respectful and focused on well-being, the importance of human contact and the impact of AI. Thank you – your presentation was inspiring.”​​
The Digitally Mediated Self:
Emotion, Intimacy, and the Loss of Interpersonal Complexity
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People are more “connected” than ever, and yet struggling with loneliness, polarisation, emotional avoidance, burnout, and relational shallowness. Organisations feel the knock-on effects like conflict avoidance, communication breakdowns, overstimulation, collapsing attention and the challenges of working with difference. By using depth psychology to understand digital culture, we can reveal what technology is doing to our inner lives, and how we can recover depth, presence, and human connection.
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Key takeaways:
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The Fragmented Self: Identity, performativity, and authenticity
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The Threat to Relational Complexity and How to Reclaim It
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Intimacy by App: Dating, relating, and debating
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Recovering Depth, Meaning, and Embodied Connection
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The Elements of Personal Leadership:​
Building psychologically intelligent organisations in an era of uncertainty and change
Modern leadership demands far more than communication skills and strategic vision. Leaders must navigate anxiety, change, emotional complexity, unconscious group processes, and the human consequences of hybrid working and technological acceleration.
This keynote gives leaders a psychological map of their organisation: how people defend, project, fragment, idealise, resist, avoid, and attach — and how understanding these processes is the key to trust, clarity, and high-quality decision-making.
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Key themes:
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Psychological intelligence vs superficial “EQ”
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Navigating uncertainty, anxiety, and emotionally charged environments
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The unconscious complexities of groups and teams
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Defences in leadership: narcissism, imposter syndrome, perfectionism
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Emotional safety and the real meaning of “wellbeing at work”
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Hybrid teams, burnout, and the emotional labour of digital workplaces
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Why psychologically intelligent organisations create better outcomes
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I speak internationally for organisations across technology, healthcare, law, education, finance, government, and the creative industries.
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Keynotes available in-person, virtual, or hybrid
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Tailored versions for sector-specific audiences
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Follow-up workshops available on request
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Speak with my team at The Speaking Office to enquire about rates for events
