Aditi Nerurkar, M.D.
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, MD, MPH is a Harvard physician with expertise in the science of stress, resilience, and burnout. A vibrant and engaging speaker, Dr. Nerurkar offers insights on optimizing mental health, well-being, and productivity. She leaves audiences energized and empowered to take control of their lives with practical, science-backed, and approachable recommendations that can be applied both immediately and in the long-term.
“One of the best keynotes I’ve ever attended in regards to soft skills! Thank you Dr. Nerurkar for addressing these very important topics.”
“Phenomenal session! You don’t even know you’re in burnout until listening to this session.”
“One of the best General Sessions! Perfect timing and informative. Dr. Nerurkar was a great speaker with an easy-to-follow presentation style and great ability to answer questions off-the-cuff!”
“What a way to kickoff the conference! Timely subject matter and Dr. Nerurkar is a fantastic presenter. This session allowed us to think about ourselves in an everchanging world full of stress and priorities.”
"Dr. Nerurkar gave practical and actionable advice that had a sound medical/psychological basis, which gives me optimism in making meaningful changes. She was an excellent speaker." ~ a health association meeting
Her bestselling book, The Five Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience, is an accessible health-meets-self-help guide, available in 35 countries and 15 languages, offering a reimagined approach to overcoming stress and improving mental health. It was named a “must-read” by Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club and featured in . It has also been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Times of London and endorsed by Harrison Ford, Katie Couric, Arianna Huffington and Eve Rodsky.
Dr. Nerurkar is on faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health & Social Medicine and serves as the Co-Director of the Harvard Clinical Clerkship in Community Engagement. Previously, she worked in global public health at a World Health Organization collaboration center in Switzerland, as well as a Medical Director at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time Magazine and CNN. Her published research can be found in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is also an on-air medical commentator for various media outlets including MSNBC and NBC News. She is an internationally-recognized Fortune 50 speaker who has delivered unforgettable keynotes at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, the Harvard Business School Women’s Conference, IBM, Visa, Dell Technologies, and many more. Her TED Talk was highlighted on TED homepage. Dr. Nerurkar has a weekly Substack newsletter titled Mental Health-ish.
She was recently named “100 Women to Know in America” for her impactful work in stress and mental health.
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Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back: The Brain’s Best Blueprint for Productivity
In an era of digital distractions and prevalent burnout, it’s increasingly difficult to maintain sustained attention for significant productivity. In this talk, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar educates using science-backed insights on why multitasking is an unfounded myth, and how creating digital boundaries and cultivating the brain’s need for compartmentalization through monotasking are the key therapeutic interventions to enhancing productivity and decreasing maladaptive levels of stress that lead to burnout. With measured, effective and sustainable strategies to rewire the brain, resist digital distractions, and amplify the capacity to concentrate, Dr. Nerurkar empowers her audience to reset stress and burnout and maximize the dimensions of attention, problem-solving skills, and productivity.
The Resilience RX: Navigating Organizational Culture and Leadership Through Changing Times
The effectiveness of an organization to be productive in this dynamic and rapidly changing world depends on the resilience of its individual members. In this talk, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar debunks the prevailing conventions of resilience and in their place, dispenses her actionable, practical, and science-based prescription of proven techniques that cultivate a greater sense of fortitude within each individual to enhance organizational culture as a whole. Dr. Nerurkar’s data-driven techniques, easily implemented to achieve sustainability and personal growth, decrease burnout and stress, improve focus and engagement, and enhance productivity, ultimately building a stronger foundation for a more resilient organization and its culture.
Your Lifestyle Snapshot: An Actionable Roadmap to Rewire Your Brain and Reset Your Burnout and Stress
Burnout and stress are increasing universal challenges in our workplaces and in our personal lives. Navigating this new normal requires an accessible, science-backed roadmap with a stepwise approach for safeguarding our mental health and ensuring our productivity. Since change of any kind is perceived as an inherent stressor to the brain, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar has designed a proven and targeted approach that works with a person’s biology rather than against it. In this talk, Dr. Nerurkar offers her practical roadmap for resetting stress and burnout through techniques including a media diet, sleep as a therapeutic intervention, monotasking, and cognitive reframing for better brain health and more resilience.
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