Many wellness practitioners may be stepping into the space of health and food. Still, not many nutritionists come from busy corporate backgrounds with formal professional speaking experience.
Michele Chevalley Hedge, nutritional medicine practitioner and health author, was previously a marketing manager at Microsoft. She truly understands the needs of time-poor corporate executives who, family or not, want health but not hassle. She is often introduced as "the modern-day nutritionist – the one who likes a bit of wine and coffee." Michele has recently completed her formal education in Positive Psychology which fuses nicely into her well-being presentation.
Michele’s passion is delivering well-being, keynotes, workshops, and webinars to organisations globally. Michele is an enthusiastic, good-humoured, evidence-based presenter with a unique Australian New York accent. Her winning speaker power is engaging the audience in “ahhhh ha- that is me! moments.” Not only does she exude passion and educate on the latest evidence-based research and trends, but it is imperative, according to Michele, that each engagement ends with realistic takeaways that they can begin immediately. You won’t find extremes with Michele you will not hear ‘pseudo-science’ – you will find an inspiring human with a toolkit full of ideas to improve brain function, energy, mental well-being, immune system, energy, sleep, productivity, and more.
Michele works with many international corporations and schools – Amazon, Virgin Airlines, Westpac, CBA, ANZ, HSBC, Apple, Dropbox, Dexus, News.com, Financial Planning Association, CEW, Eucalyptus, AMP, Accenture, Dexus, Woolworths, Bankers Trust, Business Chicks, JLL, Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers, Herbert Smith, Freehills, ACCOR, Westfield, Department of Defence, Australian Police Force, Tourism Portfolio, Heart Research Australia, and more. She is the keynote speaker for the Heads of Schools of Australia, PESA, and the Positive Schools Conference in Hong Kong and in the USA.
Michele is Cure Cancer Ambassador and Heart Research Institute Ambassador. The Dalai Lama introduced her at a conference where she presented on 'Vitality, Energy and Serotonin - It's all in Your Food'. Mental health and nutrition research is her passion and has been nominated for Australia Mental Health Awards Finals three years in a row. She also was recently was hand selected for Sir Richard Branson’s Leadership Summit at his home on Necker Island.
Michele loves to write and has published three books along with her blog and social media.
- Beating Sugar Addictions for Dummies, Wiley Publishing
- The Healthy Hormone Diet, Pan Macmillan
- Eat, Drink & Still Shrink… a joyful guide for the busy person, Pan Macmillan.
Michele also writes for Body & Soul, SMH, News.com Good Health, Prevention, Wellbeing, Clean Eating, Cosmo, Women's Weekly, Mind Food and many more. And when Michele isn't writing or running her clinical practice, she is delivering wellbeing keynotes or even chatting away on The Sunrise Show and Today show.
Passionate, authentic, and knowledgeable, Michele has several degrees and is a Nutritional Medicine and is a member of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society. Michele is an educator, storyteller, and passionate researcher.
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MoodFood- How diet affects Mental Health & Wellbeing
Do you know anyone who goes from gorgeous to grumpy in one meal? Energised to Brain Fogged? Communitive and a team player to silent and introverted? Mood disorders and poor brain fitness, to the more serious anxiety and depression, are surrounding us. They may be quiet, always scary, and often caused by things we cannot control, genetics, a virus, childhood trauma, and more. But now with recent evidence-based research we know that food can play a part in our current mental wellbeing crisis. We want to be productive, energised, and have top mental fitness in our careers and when we get home, our families. Michele Chevalley Hedge, nutritionist and Australia Mental Health Finalist, will share her evidence-based research on nutrition, mental health, wellbeing, and its connection to food. Mental health is a serious topic; Michele delivers it lightly with achievable take-home messages.MoodFood- How diet affects Mental Health & Wellbeing
Michele has been nominated and a finalist for Australia Mental Health Awards in 2016 and 2017.
The Itsy Bitsy Habits of Wellbeing & Mental Resilience
People change best by feeling good, not feeling bad. If we consistently can do a habit without pain or bother, we have found the way to cement micro-steps that improve vitality, energy, sleep, mental resilience and more. Successful people keep their wellbeing personal tool kit simple and do-able and always begin with small steps. In these uncertain times, there are so many things we cannot control but the one thing we can control is how we nourish ourselves. How we nourish ourselves has the immediate knock-on effect on all the things we truly value- our mental, physical and emotional health.
The Itsy Bitsy Habits of Wellbeing & Mental Resilience
Health Equity, the New Wealth Economy
A vibrant brain and healthy body are, without a doubt, 2024 new form of wealth – so how do you grow yours? The evidence and research on how we nourish ourselves and how it affects our immune system, motivation, mental health, and mental resilience have always been significant, especially when we are under stress or in challenging times. There has never been a time that we need complete well-being more than now, as we transition into new forms of viruses, additional workload, and new work environments and avoid burnout. Health Equity, the New Wealth Economy
This interactive presentation provides key learnings & takeaways on:
- Discover what we can add to your daily nutrition to improve your mental well-being. Yes, – ADD IN, not take away. Nourishment, not Deprivation.
- Identify the connection between lifestyle habits (eating, sleeping, exercise, stress hacking), leadership skills, performance habits, and professional achievement.
- Understand the four S – Sugar, Sleep, Stress and Supplements – what should be your wellness prevention and personal performance optimisation toolkit.
- Provide the latest research on food, sleep and stress that impact your mental health and brain cognitive functions.
- Focus on your “new normal” and how to navigate fridge addictions ;-), erratic eating, and how to prevent cravings. Increase energy, productivity, and mental clarity.
- Create an optimum “Day in the Life of You” – a plan with tiny hacks that lead to a lifetime of habits.
Warning! This Nutritionist likes a bit of coffee and chocolate.
Sleep Your Way to Mental Resilience & Brain Power
We need to be nimble, fast learners, self-motivated, self-aware, and creative but we cannot do this without good quality sleep. More than 46% of Australians get under 6 hours per night. Why are we all tired but wired?Sleep Your Way to Mental Resilience & Brain Power
This presentation will:
- Understand why your brain and mental fitness need sleep, how much for peak cognitive thinking.
- Discuss what we need to eliminate from our diets to activate deep REM sleep.
- Discuss what we must include to calm our sympathetic nervous system for optimum sleep.
- Provide evidence-based nourishing, healthy, lean body foods, and evidence-based researched supplements
Your Gut, Your Brain, and Your Mind for High Performance
Most of us have heard of the Gut-Brain connection. We will delve into this, and anxiety and depression, and how to minimise risk factors. We will discuss the brainpower. What we feed our gut is imperative for our invisible wellness bubble from our brain to our immune system.Your Gut, Your Brain, and Your Mind for High Performance
This presentation will:
- Provide you with 5 simple food strategies to minimise the anxiety that are medically researched
- Discuss what we may need to do to clean up the past 10 years of gut rubbish.
- Provide practical tips on daily probiotic and prebiotic foods and supplements.
- Disclose evidence-based medical research on cognitive improvement and mental resilience.
Women's and Men's Health: Menopause, Andropause & Everything in Between
All male or female audience? This allows us to take a deep dive into topics like hormones, sex, and more. This 60-minute session discusses the top health conditions affecting women’s health and men’s health:Women's and Men's Health: Menopause, Andropause & Everything in Between
- Weight and Slow Metabolism
- Rapid Aging and Oxidation
- Damaging Inflammation
Find out how you can eat your way to:
- Ageing gracefully inside and out
- Balancing stress hormones
-Dampening inflammation
- Increasing your metabolism
- Restoring energy and vitality at work and at play
- Sex and Health
- Hormonal Balancing
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Michele Chevalley Hedge | Corporate Health & Wellbeing Webinars & Virtual Speaker
Michele Chevalley Hedge, qualified nutritionist, international wellbeing author, Cure Cancer Ambassador and media personality, will support you in your new normal working from home.Michele Chevalley Hedge | Workplace Health & Wellbeing Programs - A healthy business starts with healthy staff
Michele Chevalley Hedge's corporate solutions address the unique health and wellbeing challenges workplaces face. Michele is empowering organisations to improve the engagement, productivity, physical, mental health and wellbeing of their employees, by providing keynotes, workshops, insights, tools and solutions - keeping staff healthy and happy, while driving a positive workplace culture. Michele Chevalley Hedge is a Highly Commended Nutritional Medicine Practitioner, international author and speaker There may be many wellness practitioners stepping into the space of health and food but there are not many nutritionists who come from busy corporate backgrounds, have three kids and who really can understand modern day peoples' requirements for health, happy hormones, quality sleep, energy, and a productive brain. Michele Chevalley Hedge was previously a marketing manager at Microsoft so she truly understands the needs of time-poor corporate executives who, family or not, want health but not hassle. She is often introduced by health magazine editors as the modern day nutritionist - the one who likes a bit of wine and coffee.Michele Chevalley Hedge | Corporate Wellness & Nutrition
Corporate Wellness & Nutrition. Progressive organisation like ANZ, CBA, Westpac, Hillross, HSBC, Apple, Westfield and more are inviting Michele Chevalley Hedge to education in a light mannered way about gaining Vitality, Energy & Productivity with nutrition. Protect your greatest asset- your current employee and let Michele provide a simple solutions for time poor, fast past lives. Former Microsoft management turned nutritionist and busy parent- Michele understands the corporate, busy personI attended Michele's talk titled Energy, Vitality, and Happy Hormones - It's all in your food' at the World Positive Education summit in Texas. The title intrigued me because I strongly beli ... keep reading Accenture
Health and wellbeing is a focus for Dexus, to help our customers thrive by providing a suite of health and wellbeing services, offerings and amenities within their building and across the community building portals. Dexus wants to make it possible for our customers of all sizes to offer their employees the same services that have often only been available for large corporations. To date, we have a range of boot camps, yoga, Pilates and mindfulness classes run weekly across the country and we have facilitated approximately 600 wellness related events year to date. Michele Chevalley Hedge has been instrumental in this process and delivery making wellness realistic, light, interesting not an extreme.
At BT Select we are supporting our community's well-being. We believe that the mental and physical health of our collective team's is key to their success. We were fortunate to have Michele Chevalley Hedge present at our recent BT Select Principals' Forum. Michele's ability to articulate the key messages of the importance of managing one's energy, sleep patterns and productivity was impactful and very well received. The group was extremely engaged, and the feedback post has been overwhelmingly positive. Thank you again Michele.
Michele brings great knowledge, backed by real facts, practical tips and a great sense of humour. She brings an outstanding energy and vibrancy to the room, leaving you to feel empowered to do something really positive for your own wellbeing.
Thank you for presenting at the Department of Human Services 'Leadership make it happen: Leading Well - celebrating workplace wellbeing event, which marked the launch of the department's wellbeing and mental health strategies. Your talk on the importance of nutrition to improve vitality, energy and productivity aligned well with our aim to highlight the importance of personal wellbeing at work. The experiences and practical strategies you discussed were embraced by the audience. We are grateful to you for your time and effort in sharing your years of research, your depth of understanding and ability to present the subject in the most engaging way.
Mental Health, emotional well-being and clarity of thinking are in my view all enhanced by a low sugar lifestyle. As a family, we've kicked the habit (not hard) and its awesome! The science is all moving in this direction. For our own sake and the sake of future generations we need to address the sugar epidemic in all its manifestations. Michele and her team know what they're about and practise what they preach. Bravo!
In a continually connected and on' world it is increasingly important for organisations to assist their teams to manage health and wellbeing. Michele brings to life the importance, and consequences, of not adequately managing our wellbeing. Her energy had the room captivated and wanting more. Michele's material is relevant, practical and eye opening and her recommendations easily implemented.
Michele's style creates a wonderfully inspiring and authentic connection with the audiences she shares her messages of nutrition with. She creates simple messages that resonate with children and adults, turning empirical data into practical daily actions. Changing behavioural patterns is the key to positive mental and physical health, and Michele ignites a conversation that empowers people to make true change without fuss, and I have personally experienced just how easy it has been to sustain this conversation and personal choices as part of our daily family routine.
On behalf of JLL and the attendees of the Premium Property Management Conference, thank you so much for your great presentation last week. The team found your presentation insightful, thought provoking and entertaining. We greatly appreciate your contribution to this event.
We engaged Michele as the keynote speaker for a high-end incentive group, RAMS HOME Loans. The group were needing a relatable and inspirational speaker to cover the importance of wellness, nutrition and stress management across both their professional and personal lives. Michele successfully connected and engaged with the group, providing practical (and realistic) tips for individuals to take home. We received great feedback on the Sonic' drink mixer concept, which they used throughout the remainder of the programme. The group received Michele's Healthy Hormone Diet' book as a gift, which was an added touch to their experience.
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