D E E H U N T E R
Well-Being Strategist
Speaker · Facilitator · Author
Equipping people and organisations to navigate the shifts reshaping how we work and live.
Introducing Dee
Dee Hunter is a well-being strategist, speaker, author and facilitator who brings science and the human experience together to create meaningful change.
Over 25 years, Dee has researched what helps people live with vitality and work with purpose, including in-person research visiting the world’s Blue Zones and spending time learning from Indigenous communities. She combines this with her own lived experience and wisdom, having overcome burnout, deep personal loss and complex lifestyle challenges.
Dee believes sustainable behavioural change requires more than simply altering our actions. It demands that we examine how we see ourselves, understand our self-beliefs and reframe the stories we’ve been handed about who we are. This profound philosophy forms the foundation of her signature work in Deep Identity Shift.
Dee has created a suite of original programmes, including Stress Mastery, Generational Intelligence (diversity), The Invitation (the whole person in menopause) and Enough (imposter syndrome).
She works strategically with leaders, people teams and event organisers on the issues most affecting people today. Each programme is carefully crafted as a keynote or facilitated workshop, delivered in person or virtually.
Dee has a unique ability to distil complex research, insight, human experience and the stories we carry into ideas that are relatable, meaningful and actionable. Her audiences leave seeing things differently, with practical strategies to change their lives and impact the choices of people around them.
Signature Keynotes & Workshops
'At Work '
In a world where change never stops, demands keep evolving and the pace rarely lets up, we need a new way of understanding and responding to stress.
Grounded in neuroscience, the Stress Intelligence™ Framework gives individuals and teams the understanding and tools to manage stress more effectively. We challenge outdated models of resilience built on the assumption that the pressure will eventually subside, allowing us to recover and return to baseline & reframe resilience for a world of sustained demands, developing the capacity to create recovery, adapt and function effectively while continuing to operate at pace.
Generational Intelligence
The divide between generations has never been more pronounced, shaping how we live, communicate and work together. Up to five generations now share the same workspace, each shaped by the zeitgeist of their time.
Generational Intelligence gives leaders and teams the insight, language and practical tools to understand what shapes generational perspectives and behaviours, challenge their own assumptions and bridge the gap between generations. We examine the technology myth, challenging the assumption that technology is at the root of the generational divide. In reality, technology amplifies differences that already exist. Turning generational differences into opportunities creates greater understanding, connection and collaboration, transforming generational diversity into a competitive advantage at work and at home.
Half of all adults report experiencing imposter syndrome, and the actual prevalence is likely higher.
It shows up hardest in the moments that matter: promotions, reviews, presentations and recognition. It lives in the gap between capability and what we believe about ourselves, held in place by self-limiting beliefs. These beliefs are not a character flaw. They're learned settings that can be challenged and changed.
ENOUGH explores why these beliefs can get louder as people step up and how the imposter cycle keeps even high achievers second-guessing their success.
Audiences gain insight into the stories shaping their responses, and how challenging and changing these internal narratives can alter these patterns: Where's the evidence?
Signature Keynotes & Workshops
Through Life
What if menopause isn’t a chapter of decline, but an invitation to rise into a different kind of power? A life-quake that changes how we see ourselves, what we value and how we want to live. Symptom relief and HRT are important parts of the journey, but they are only the beginning. Drawing on the wisdom of women who have walked this path before us, we explore how to navigate this transition with greater self-understanding, purpose and possibility.
This is an opportunity to redefine what the second half of life can look like, not as a winding down, but as a powerful new beginning.
This is a conversation for everyone. Men are invited to join, understand and embrace the possibilities of this next chapter alongside the women in their workplaces and lives.
Live Longer Younger
You’re working hard to build a secure future, but after all that hard work, how will you get to enjoy it? Curious about the claims made for the world’s Blue Zones, Dee travelled to them as a sceptic to conduct in-person research with communities around the globe known for both a long lifespan and a strong healthspan, with far lower rates of chronic disease. Drawing on her first-hand research, their wisdom and the science of longevity, she reveals the default lifestyle practices behind their remarkable lives and how we can bring those principles into our own daily lives.
From the time she spent living in these communities, Dee shares how they hold on to traditional ways of living while choosing carefully from the modern world. She shows how our daily choices shape our healthspan, the years we live in good health, and why it is never too late to change its trajectory. Audiences leave with a clearer picture of what really drives a long, healthy life, and practical ideas they can begin weaving into their daily lives.
Transform your relationship with food and fall back in love with the joy of eating.
Food noise is the relentless stream of thoughts about food that willpower can’t break. GLP-1 medications have offered a way to quieten that noise, yet for many people the thoughts return when the medication stops, and sometimes even while they are still taking it, because the noise is rooted in self-limiting beliefs they have carried for years. Drawing on 25 years of research and her own journey through eating disorders and disordered eating, Dee shows that lasting freedom comes from doing the deeper work of understanding what those beliefs are.
Through her signature Deep Identity Shift approach, she explores why diets, willpower and medication so often fall short, and how the inherited stories we carry shape our relationship with food and with ourselves. Those same beliefs reach beyond food into confidence, relationships and the way we work, which is why this conversation belongs in the workplace, especially now that so many people are using GLP-1 medications. Whether someone is on a GLP-1, has come off one, or has never taken one, Deep Identity Shift offers a path to change that lasts.
How each programme is delivered
Every programme has been carefully crafted to be delivered as a 55-minute keynote or a 3.5-hour facilitated workshop, inperson or virtually, giving you the choice of inspiring a full conference room or taking your people deeper into the tools.
Keynote 55 Minutes
Inspires and energises a full conference room, ideal for opening or closing an event.
Workshop 3.5 Hours
Takes your people deeper, working hands-on with the tools and applying them to their own lives.
Integration Coaching
Follow-up sessions that help the learning stick.
THE BOOK
COMING APRIL 2027
FOOD NOISE FREEDOM
Transforming your relationship with food and getting back into the joy of eating, with or without GLP-1.
Food noise refers to the persistent and intrusive thoughts about food. Beyond this, many people experience cravings, emotional eating, concerns about body image and the exhausting cycle of losing and regaining weight.
Drawing on 25 years of research and her deeply personal journey with eating disorders and disordered eating, Dee introduces the Identity Shift approach to transforming our relationship with food. It takes us beneath our behaviours with food, enabling us to uncover the self-limiting beliefs we hold and the inherited stories that have shaped our relationship with food and ourselves. The book offers a fresh perspective on why previous approaches have so often failed and a different pathway to creating change that lasts.
Whether you’ve spent years dieting, are using a GLP-1 medication or another intervention, or are concerned about weight regain or lasting change, this book offers a groundbreaking way to understand and transform your relationship with food, for good.
Because lasting freedom doesn’t begin with changing what you eat. It begins with changing how you see yourself.
What clients say
I’ve never seen a speaker hold an audience so captivated for over an hour, leaving us wanting more. Dee’s storytelling and insights have depth and she truly knows her stuff. I hope Dee offers this as a half-day workshop, as members are eager for more!
Cathy Horton, Events Manager, The Northern Club, New Zealand
Dee delivered a hybrid presentation to our 250 staff nationwide, addressing real stressors they face. She gave us clear insights into stress and management techniques, handled numerous questions, and provided an excellent summary with resources afterward.
Nastasia Belz, Events Co-ordinator, Tompkins Wake Legal
Dee opened our two-day conference in Auckland, and we then asked her to close the same conference in Sydney. The reviews speak for themselves: a total score of 4.8/5, and she set the tone for the whole conference. “Engaging and informative, wonderful speaker.” “Humble and generous, what a great journey we went on.”
Anna Turner, Portfolio and Content Director, HR/L&D Tech Fests, Sydney
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