How do we stay expansive in a world that feels like it's contracting?
Emily Toner is a Clinical Psychologist, wellbeing consultant, and speaker working at the intersection of behavioural science and regenerative psychology.
Over the past 14 years, she has designed custom psychological programs for Australia’s top organizations, including Deloitte, ANZ, Seek, and Medibank. Her work translates complex psychological research into scalable workplace practices that build resilience, elevate culture, and protect against burnout.
Holding a Master of Clinical Psychology from the University of Melbourne, Emily’s background spans hospital clinical care, private practice, group facilitation, and large-scale wellbeing content creation.
Beyond her corporate advisory work, Emily is a prominent voice in psychological resilience for climate action. She is the creator and host of the Climate Courage podcast and develops custom frameworks to help organisations navigate environmental and industry uncertainty without exhaustion. Her audio guides and mindfulness programs have reached hundreds of thousands of people globally via platforms like Insight Timer and Smiling Mind.
She lives her values and passion through facilitating wellbeing talks and workshops, and producing and performing music under her artist name, EMTONES.
Talking Points
Becoming An Expansive: How Your Mind Can Change The World
Many of our greatest challenges stem from dysregulated, disconnected mindsets—a rigid, reactive state called "Contraction." The world’s most effective leaders operate from the opposite: a calm, regulated nervous system that enables clarity, empathy, and innovation. They are the "Expansionists." In this powerful keynote, Emily shares her science-backed framework to help you move out of stress and survival mode into an expansive state capable of driving real change.
Becoming An Expansive: How Your Mind Can Change The World
Workshop: Mental Expansion
Reduce stress, shift thought patterns, improve cognitive flexibility, and build confidence.Workshop: Mental Expansion
When we learn to notice our thoughts rather than get caught in them, we unlock cognitive flexibility, the key to mental expansion. In this mind state, we become less reactive, more present, and significantly better at decision-making under pressure. In this session, Emily provides simple, science-backed tools to cultivate the adaptable, resilient mindset needed to thrive at work and in life.
Workshop: Emotional Expansion
Manage burnout, build resilience, improve decision-making, and deepen relationships.Workshop: Emotional Expansion
Without practical tools to navigate difficult emotions, it is easy to rely on unhealthy coping mechanisms that lead to anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout. This session helps you switch off emotional autopilot. Using evidence-based psychological practices, you’ll learn how to process complex emotional states, make wiser choices, and foster genuine self-compassion.
Workshop: Team Expansion
Strengthen communication, cultivate empathy, build psychological safety, and connect your people.Workshop: Team Expansion
With nearly half of all employees feeling lonely or disconnected at work, genuine workplace connection has never been more vital. In this interactive, highly experiential workshop, Emily equips your team with practical tools for mindful relating, building the trust, psychological safety, and effective communication needed for collective success.
Workshop: Climate Courage: Climate Resilience: Protect Your Energy & Power
Calm your nervous system, avoid burnout, and stay focused for the long haul.Workshop: Climate Courage: Climate Resilience: Protect Your Energy & Power
Carrying the weight of complex environmental challenges can keep our brains in a constant state of high alert. It’s easy to find ourselves over-consuming devastating content as a way of bearing witness, confusing empathy with shared suffering, and feeling as though staying distressed is the only way to truly honor the crisis. But while hurting might feel like caring, it often leads to burnout rather than the impact we actually want to make.
Grounded in accessible neuroscience and evidence-based psychological tools, this session looks at how climate stress impacts our minds and energy. You will learn to move out of survival mode, protect your focus, and reframe personal wellbeing not as self-indulgence, but as your most powerful tool for sustained, meaningful action.
Video
Emily Toner - Medibank School of Better - Lesson One, Your brain
This lesson is designed to give you an overview of your brain, with a particular focus on biases and feelings.Emily Toner - Medibank School of Better - Lesson Two, Mindfulness
Emily Toner - Medibank School of Better - Lesson Three, Happiness
Being mindful and having a growth mindset can have a huge impact on people's lives and business performance. If you want someone to cut through, create change, build engagement, facilitate g ... keep reading Medibank
Not only has Emily made a big difference to my team with her engaging and tailored programs, she has had a profound impact on me and my leadership capability. Her ability to ensure my team are better connected and all striving for a growth mindset has been a key reason for our substantial growth.
Emily has played a pivotal role in introducing the concept of mindfulness to our workplace. With her deep knowledge, passion and genuine care to create a more mindful culture, our people have adopted and continue to practice mindful techniques in their professional and personal lives. We have utilised and drawn on Emily's skills and expertise across a number of our teams and seen re-sults in the increase of awareness and general wellbeing. Emily has a genuine interest in under-standing every group she engages and approaches every opportunity with a real motivation to make a difference in people's lives.
It was a pleasure working with Emily on our wellbeing strategy and focus on Mindfulness. Emily partnered with us by taking the time to understand the needs of our business and delivered an engaging and impactful outcome. The feedback from the business has been very positive and this has resulted in many other parts of Deloitte engaging Emily's services as a result.
