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Kim Bevill      

Peak Performance Expert & Author of "Ten Things: A Guide to Your Brain"

Kim Bevill is the CEO of Gray Matters Consulting. As an internationally recognized speaker, educator, and author, she has built a robust reputation for translating complex neuroscience into practical applications. She authored "The Ten Things: A guide to your brain," demonstrating how small changes can enhance innovation, diversity, inclusion, happiness, and productivity. Bevill also penned "Top Ten Things: The Neuroscience On Sex Differences, Music, Gaming and More," further delving into cognitive sciences.

Bevill's presentations are well-regarded for their depth and practicality, focusing on mental health and behavioral sciences. Her popular training, "The Top Ten Things Everyone with a Brain Needs to Know," addresses cognition and health through altered life and work perceptions, sleep, diet, and therapeutic movements. She also offers "Brain Essentials, Life & DNA How We Damage It & How to Fix It," examining stress-driven behaviors and their impacts on DNA, and strategies to mitigate these effects. Another notable presentation, "Males & Females are Different & It Is More Than You Think," explores the neurological and hormonal differences between genders and their implications on behavior and relationships.

Bevill’s TEDx talk, "The Magic That Makes the Brain Learn," along with her presentation "Moving is Magical: The 3 Moves for Intelligence, Productivity & Happiness," emphasize the importance of physical movement for enhancing mental capabilities and overall well-being. Her courses and presentations, described as mind-energizing and practical, focus on integrating complex movements to regenerate neurons, improve social skills, and enhance cognition, attention, and motivation. Through her work, Bevill continuously highlights the significance of mental training for achieving peak performance in sports and real-world applications, as well as the impact of relationships on mental health and longevity.

Speech Topics

Ten Things Everyone with a Brain Needs to Know

Understanding why we must perceive meaning in life at home and at work, and understanding why even an hour less of sleep, and understanding why eating food you prepare instead of food you purchased will change your life. Imagine that you knew what listening to music or playing an instrument did to support the ability to learn, to heal, to move. This type of training is the science of what builds neural pathways and enhance our performance in math, language, compassion, inclusion, and equity. Changes happen fast, unconscious and as if by magic. What you will learn is powerful, reduces depression, increases energy and feelings of hope.

Essentials, DNA and Life

Even minor stress can change our behaviors, personality, and immune system radically. The good news is there are things you can do to lower that cortisol so can get back to your best self. Compelling evidence shows certain things stop the damage and actually repair damage within days. Things like music, water, play, fasting, foods you choose, even the darkness of your bedroom seem to work miracles. This is my FAVORITE presentation because over time people report back that their migraines stopped, they lost weight, improved their marriage, and no longer need to retire!

Gender and the Brain: why training on sex differences is a must for DEI

Spatial reasoning and math scores vary by sex but only in countries that discriminate. Once you understand what happens in the brain when faced with stereotype threat you can use the strategies to neutralize them. Equity depends on training how words and activities can impair processing. From walking out of a fight, to reading faces, to raising your voice, behaviors can have the opposite effect and meaning for a male and female. In settings where preferences for moving and talking may be the difference in academic and behavioral success learning the science is a must! Neurology, hormones, and culture work together for the sometimes-hilarious opposites.

Motivation and the Brain and CLD

If you have ever asked yourself, why do they do that--this is for you. By now you realize they are different because of your experience in your life. Scientific evidence shows functional integration depending on sex drives behavior. Understanding small differences can bring long overdue social change when we use the findings. Both sexes can benefit, and the result is increased innovation, interpersonal skills, engages and prevents misunderstandings. The 3 things inspire and motivate males and females but without them we have divorces, higher depression rates, substance use and more. They are engaging, fun, easy and they are not the same!

Mental and Behavioral Health

The experts in mental health have totally missed the mark. You cannot wait until there are symptoms to recognize. The only factor that matters for mental health is to protect it before it wanes. Forget everything you knew, there are 5 things in our daily lives that sustain our energy that drives mental health. The problem is the most common behaviors you do every day threatens it. Simple things like flipping on a light switch can put you at risk for disease and addictive behaviors. Light lowers our defense against properties that trigger anxiety and depression. You must know the science behind it though or putting down a phone and closing the electronic devices will never happen.

Relationship Predict Success: It is the Key to Mental Health and Longevity

Our social skills are a holy grail for almost all success, interpersonal skills and respecting emotions are the key. The truth is there are reasons we like people and reasons people like us; that means there are factors, underlying secrets, to allow us to build them at work, school, and life. Our life with others impacts mood, intelligence, health, even problem-solving. Tips for getting along promote sales and business deals, and personal happiness, what the opposite sex truly values!

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