Petra Velzeboer
Mental health advocate and CEO and founder of PVL mental health consultancy
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About Petra Velzeboer
In an age of AI, tech addiction, and global uncertainty, Petra Velzeboer is the go-to expert on mental health and resilience in the workplace. A dynamic TEDx speaker, psychotherapist, and CEO of mental health consultancy PVL, she delivers engaging, no-nonsense insights that challenge outdated approaches to wellbeing and drive real cultural change.
With firsthand experience of navigating adversity—having escaped a notorious cult, battled addiction, and rebuilt her life—Petra blends vulnerability, humour, and hard-hitting truths to inspire teams and leaders worldwide. She shifts the focus from superficial “bubble bath wellbeing” to real strategies for elite performance, connection, psychological safety, and unlocking human potential in high-pressure environments.
A trusted advisor to PwC, Accenture, Channel 4, Novartis, and more, Petra equips leaders with the skills to tackle burnout, manage hybrid work, and create cultures where people thrive. She speaks globally on the future of work, leadership, and resilience, offering compelling parallels between corporate cultures and cult dynamics—challenging audiences to rethink how they lead, connect, and adapt to change.
Author of Begin with You and Digital Wellbeing: Recharge Your Focus and Reboot Your Life, Petra has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, CEO World, and Harvard Business Review. Whether delivering a keynote, hosting a panel, or running a masterclass, she leaves audiences energized, empowered, and ready to take action.
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Digital Wellbeing: Recharge Focus in a Distracted AI World
A practical and uplifting keynote that helps people take back control of attention, energy and technology, reducing burnout while improving focus, creativity and performance in an always on world.
Leading Under Pressure: Resilience through Change
This session equips leaders to stay clear, grounded and effective during rapid change, showing how to lead with confidence, protect performance and support teams without absorbing toxic pressure.
From Burnout to Performance: Helping Teams Thrive Through Change
A powerful reset on burnout prevention that reframes wellbeing as a performance strategy, giving teams the tools to recover faster, work smarter and sustain high performance over time.
Adversity to Resilience: Cult Survivor to Thought Leader
Petra’s personal story of surviving an extremist cult and addiction delivers a compelling message about responsibility, courage and growth, leaving audiences inspired and equipped to navigate adversity with strength and clarity.
Client Feedback
"I would highly recommend Petra as a knowledgeable and credible speaker! Petra’s authentic and engaging style, delivering at our National Conferences, has been key to the success of our Wellbeing Programme."
Amey
"Petra was an absolute delight to work with! Feedback from all delegates was that Petra's session was honest, informative and inspiring. I would have Petra speak at any of our events in a heartbeat- I believe she really gave our audience of 120+ HR leaders a lot to think about following her session. If you get the chance to hear her story- take it! Thanks Petra!"
Pleo
"Petra is the rarest of keynotes; someone who knows the science but who also has lived experience on such an important topic. She is brave in her approach and this is perhaps the key lesson in opening up and addressing mental health at work."
Business Analysts Annual Conference
"Petra captures the most important issues of our times, debunking myths and offering practical ways we can focus thereby boosting mental health."
Bhakta-Jones
"We invited Petra to speak at our event and were blown away by her incredible unique story! She is an accomplished keynote speaker who provided so much practical advice on how to look after our people in the new world of work!"
Monzo
"Petra delivered a deeply authentic, vulnerable, real, insightful, actionable and funny journey into what it is to be mentally well in the mad world that is startup and corporate innovation. We all left knowing more about ourselves and knowing more about how to look after ourselves and each other. Thank you Petra! You are a master at what you do and you offer a deeply needed service to the world. Shine On!"
AirBus
