Dr. Julia Garcia

In a world that feels filtered, fast, and fake, students need something real.

This isn’t a lecture. It’s a raw, interactive experience where students are seen, heard, and equipped to show up for themselves and each other.

Dr. Julia Garcia is a Doctor of Psychology, TEDx speaker, and author of The 5 Habits of Hope (HarperCollins). Blending spoken word, lived experience, and practical tools, she meets students where they are and gives them a way forward.

From high school gyms to college campuses to prison walls, she’s spent 20 years helping students navigate pressure, relationships, and setbacks. Her national tour is bringing this research-based, experience-driven program to campuses across the country.

Learning Outcomes:

• Reflect, speak, and connect through live, interactive facilitation
• Learn practical tools for handling pressure, self-doubt, and stress
• Practice the 5 Habits of Hope in real time through interactive activities
• Strengthen relationships by practicing habits that create trust and support
• Leave with the belief that hope isn’t passive—it’s a practice

An optional book signing of The 5 Habits of Hope for continued growth

Behind every initiative, classroom, and deadline is a human being doing their best to hold it all together.

This isn’t another PD to sit through. It’s a live, interactive session that helps the people who make schools work rediscover why they show up—and how to keep going.

Dr. Julia Garcia is a Doctor of Psychology, TEDx speaker, and author of The 5 Habits of Hope (HarperCollins). Her sessions blend research, real talk, and spoken-word storytelling into powerful, emotionally intelligent experiences that meet educators with both empathy and tools.

With over two decades of experience supporting staff across hundreds of schools, Dr. Julia understands the emotional toll of care fatigue, burnout, and leadership in crisis. She offers a space to pause, reflect, and reset—without judgment or jargon.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn practical tools for managing emotional pressure and burnout
• Reconnect with your “why” and reflect on your lived experience
• Strengthen team culture through shared reflection and authentic dialogue
• Explore how emotional endurance supports leadership and care
• Leave with renewed clarity, purpose, and connection
• An optional book signing of The 5 Habits of Hope for continued growth

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we live, learn, and lead, making human-centered leadership skills more essential than ever. Dr. Julia Garcia integrates psychological insight, cultural innovation, and lived community impact to help leaders strengthen the human capacities technology cannot replicate.

Drawing from experience supporting over a million people through cultural and mental health challenges, partnering with hundreds of schools, organizations, and communities, and building award-winning tools used around the world, Dr. Garcia delivers a high-energy keynote grounded in real-world insight. She equips leaders with the mental habits that fuel clear thinking, courageous communication, and meaningful connection in a rapidly shifting landscape.

What sets this keynote apart is how it happens. In a time when AI can mimic almost anything, Dr. Garcia gives audiences what technology cannot: real activation. Through live interaction, courageous conversations, and behavioral-science-backed exercises, she interrupts the habits that cause people to hold back and helps them build the ones that move cultures forward. Participants do not just learn the habits of hope. They practice them in real time.

This keynote draws from her new book, The 5 Habits of Hope (HarperCollins), a practical, research-backed framework for strengthening the mental habits that expand human capacity and community connection. A psychologist, cultural technologist, and spoken-word storyteller, Dr. Garcia blends science, story, and strategy to create an experience that leaves audiences not just informed, but deeply engaged, aligned, and more human together.

Designed for leaders at every level—students and educators, to teams and organizations.

Learning Outcomes

• Strengthen the human skills that drive clarity, collaboration, and meaningful connection.
• Build cultures where trust and purpose guide the people who carry out the mission across leadership teams, classrooms, and communities.
• Reduce burnout and disconnection through evidence-based mental habits that improve communication, problem-solving, and adaptability.