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Guy Winch    

Licensed Psychologist, Author, Emotional Health Advocate

Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist, author, and keynote speaker. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from New York University and has completed post-doctoral work in family systems. An advocate for integrating the science of emotional health into daily lives, workplaces, and education systems, he has delivered impactful talks including "Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid," which ranks as the fourth most inspiring TED Talk on TED.com.

Winch has authored several books including "The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem," and "How to Fix a Broken Heart." His "Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts" has been translated into 19 languages, emphasizing its global reach and impact. In this book, he promotes the idea that applying emotional first aid to common psychological injuries when we first encounter them can significantly benefit our mental and physical health.

In addition to his writing, Winch contributes to Psychology Today and Huffington Post, and serves on the board of advisers for Yahoo Health. His insights have been featured in major publications including the New York Times, Time, and Forbes. As a keynote speaker, Winch leverages his unique background in stand-up comedy to deliver engaging, informative addresses on topics such as emotional first aid, the psychology of complaining, and its effects on personal and professional relationships. His aim is to provide audiences with practical tools for maintaining psychological health and managing complaints effectively in various life contexts.

Speech Topics

How Complaining Customers Can Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line

Are complaining customers a liability or an asset? Dr. Winch unpacks the psychology behind complaining behavior and provides an exciting new perspective on complaining customers as a company’s biggest asset. Customer complaints contain a treasure trove of valuable information and complaining customers can be turned into a company’s biggest fans. A talk that reveals how companies and organizations can leverage customer complaints to reduce customer attrition, increase customer loyalty, improve products and systems, and boost the company’s bottom line.

Improving Emotional Health in Companies and Organizations

Dr. Winch pulls back the veil on the surprising ways common psychological experiences negatively impact our productivity, motivation, creativity, and overall functioning in our professional lives. He provides insights, techniques, and tools to overcome their destructive affects, identify blind spots, manage stress and distress, and create a happier, healthier and more productive workplace.

How to Practice Emotional First Aid

We all know how to treat physical injuries like cuts and scrapes when we sustain them but we ignore everyday psychological wounds such as rejection, failure, loneliness, guilt, and rumination. Psychological wounds can also get ‘infected’ and they impact our lives in unexpected and detrimental ways. Dr. Winch shares the science of treating psychological injuries and reveals how to boost our emotional and physical health, improve our functioning, increase our emotional resilience, and turbo-charge our life satisfaction.

The Surprising Ways Common Psychological Injuries Are Holding You Back and How to Overcome Them

Guy Winch pulls back the veil on the many surprising ways common psychological experiences such as failure, rejection, and brooding, impact our how we feel, behave, and especially, how we think. His highly entertaining use of cutting edge science and real life scenarios provide insights that are at once shocking, compelling, as well as highly applicable to both the workplace and everyday life. Audiences gain huge insights into how they operate and think, and gain tools that allow them to identify blind spots and destructive habits they had no idea they possessed. Dr. Winch then provides them easy-to-apply tools that have a powerful, immediate and dramatic impact on both their work and their personal lives. Audiences leave his talk feeling truly transformed, better armed for life, more emotionally resilient, and more productive and successful in the workplace.

How Our Complaining Psychology Affects Our Lives and Relationships

Guy Winch uses humorous anecdotes and real life scenarios to illustrate the powerful, surprising and often shocking ways in which our complaining psychology influences our lives and relationships. The ability to complain effectively about the frustrations of daily life and to get satisfying resolutions when doing so is a crucial life skill. Yet, it is one with which the vast majority of people struggle, both in their personal and work lives and especially in their relationships. Dr. Winch breaks down psychological concepts into simple and practical steps that leave audiences feeling highly entertained and personally empowered to tackle dissatisfactions in their lives and their relationships and to get the results they want.

How to Leverage Complaining Psychology to Turn Your Unhappiest Customers into Loyal Fans

Guy Winch teaches business leaders, executives and managers how to use complaining psychology to turn unhappy customers into loyal fans that will enhance their reputations, their brands, and their bottom lines. A highly entertaining keynote speaker, he brings fresh, surprising and compelling insights that audiences members find both fascinating and immediately applicable to their work. Armed with fresh perspectives and practical tools, people leave his talks feeling enlightened, invigorated and empowered.

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5 Ways Brooding Can Lead to Depression | Guy Winch, Ph.D.
While it is natural to reflect on upsetting experiences, brooding involves replaying the same scenes in your mind and reliving the emotional distress you felt at the ...
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