Talks That Wake People Up — and Bring Them Back to What Matters
Robyn Priest doesn’t deliver speeches. They deliver wake‑up calls — honest, funny, and deeply human. Their presence on stage is direct, engaging, and refreshingly real. Robyn has a rare ability to take complex ideas about mental health, systems, and lived experience and make them simple, practical, and impossible to ignore.
Robyn’s keynotes invite audiences to rethink how we support people, not through telling them what to do, but through connection, dignity, and shared humanity. They speak from decades of lived and professional experience across 11 countries, thousands of focus groups, and more than 5,000 trained Peer Supporters. Their message is grounded in the core values of peer support: mutuality, authenticity, cultural humility, and choice.
At the heart of every talk is one truth: People have resilience, real, lived resilience, and peer support helps them tap back into it.
Robyn’s audiences leave with clarity, energy, and a renewed commitment to showing up for people in ways that actually work.
Who Robyn Speaks To
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Peer Supporters
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Clinicians
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Leaders
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Corporations
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Community organizations
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Government agencies
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Conferences across mental health, disability, lived experience, and social impact sectors
Why Audiences Connect With Robyn
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Straight talk that cuts through jargon
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Humor that disarms and opens people up
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Stories that feel real, not rehearsed
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Deep global experience across cultures and systems
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A message that centers people, not programs
Bring Robyn to Your Event
If you want a speaker who shifts perspectives, strengthens resilience, and reminds people what human connection can do, Robyn is the one you call.
Robyn is also the co-host of the podcast Mastery Vibes: Peer Support Unleashed, where real conversations about peer support, leadership, and lived experience come to life.