Now taking a small number of engagements for Q4 2026
Keynote Speaking

Your workplace was built for a nervous system that no one actually has.

One that never gets tired, sick, grieving, or overwhelmed, and filters out noise, light, and clutter with no effort. Nobody has it. This is the keynote that asks who your environment is really designed for, and what that is costing you.

A few keynote dates each quarter · Q4 2026: 2 remaining
Etienny Trindade
The idea your leaders remember
We cut the curb for the body.
No one ever cut the curb for the nervous system.
So who are we designing for?
$322Blost to burnout across the workforce every yearGlobal estimate
90%of our lives now spent indoors, in rooms built for no body in particularU.S. EPA
1 in 5of your people are neurodivergent, feeling the environment louderWidely cited
Zeropeople who actually have the nervous system we design forThe whole point
The most expensive thing in your building is the one no one is measuring.

Not rent, not software, not headcount. The environment, quietly deciding who thrives and who walks away.

What I bring to your stage

Two ways to work together.

The keynote

Who are we designing for?

Forty-five to sixty minutes that leave your leaders unable to unsee who the environment was built for, and who it quietly leaves behind.

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Workshops & audits

Half-day workshops and environmental audits.

Where a keynote becomes a lasting change in how your people and your spaces are designed.

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Not soft. Measured.

This is not a wellness talk. It is three decades of peer-reviewed evidence.

1927

The brain cannot let go of an unfinished task. It keeps a small light burning on every open loop. That is why you cannot switch off at night.

Bluma Zeigarnik
2025

The mental load women carry does not move with income or seniority. A promotion does not shift it. The environment does.

University of Bath & Melbourne
1984

Patients with a window view of trees healed a full day faster and needed less pain medication. Same surgery. Different room.

Roger Ulrich
Change the room, and you change what your people are capable of.
Etienny Trindade
Your speaker

Twenty years designing the rooms people spend their lives inside.

I am Etienny Trindade, founder of Nervous System Design. I spent two decades designing classrooms, homes, and workplaces, and I kept seeing the same thing: change the environment, and the person changes with it. I am neurodivergent, so I speak from lived experience as much as from the science.

Author · Award-winning designer · Founder of Nervous System Design
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What organisers ask

The practical questions.

What formats do you offer?

A forty-five to sixty minute keynote, a half-day leadership workshop, an environmental audit of your spaces, and fireside or panel formats. In person or virtual.

Who is this for?

Leadership teams, People and Culture, wellbeing and ESG teams, conferences, and SIPAT and safety weeks. Anywhere retention and performance are on the line.

What will our people walk away with?

The cause named, the proof shown, and specific changes they can make in their own spaces the same week. No renovation, no new budget line to begin.

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Give your leaders the reframe they cannot unsee.

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