International Keynote Speaker

Dorka
Nagy-Józsa

Neuroscience · AI · Leadership

Neuroscience & AI Leadership Development Organizational Behavior 4 Continents CEO · Y2Y Ltd
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300+ Speaking Engagements
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Dorka Nagy-Józsa on stage with audience
"Leadership is a relationship, nothing more, nothing less."
About

The person behind
the keynotes

Dorka doesn't do three-day hotel workshops where people learn their personality type and go home unchanged. She's spent years figuring out why most leadership development fails — and building something that actually works.

Her keynotes connect neuroscience, AI, and organisational behaviour in a way that's direct, research-backed, and — as audiences tend to report — impossible to sit still through.

Neuroscience & AI — From dopamine-driven task-switching to why your CEO's age predicts your remote work policy. The research you didn't know you needed.

CEO of Y2Y Ltd. — Leadership development, coaching, and organisational consulting. Daily practice, failure, trying again — that's the method.

Global Speaker — Four continents, 300+ engagements. From HR summits to supply chain conferences to factory floors.

Signature Topics

Three keynotes.
No mercy.

01 🧠
Neuroscience & Change

The Neuroscience of Why Change Fails

  • Why personality tests become excuses — not development tools
  • Three-minute attention spans: what neuroscience actually says about leadership
  • Back-sitting: the $438B crisis where your best people show up but check out
  • Why most development programs are designed to fail — and the neuroscience-backed alternative
02 🤖
AI & Brain Science

AI, Your Brain & the New Rules of Work

  • The multitasking renaissance: why your ADHD colleague might be the most evolved person in the room
  • AI as the first helper with zero shame threshold — and why that changes everything
  • Parallel cognition across multiple AI systems: the skill nobody's teaching yet
  • What happens when machines understand dopamine better than your manager does
03 ⚡
Leadership & Performance

Built to Lead: Sport Science Meets the Boardroom

  • How elite athletes and elite leaders think alike — and where both fail
  • Mental preparation for high-stakes decisions (from WorldSkills to the C-suite)
  • Your CEO's age predicts your remote work policy — Stanford proved it
  • Leadership isn't a vitamin deficiency. It's daily practice, failure, and trying again.
Investment

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Keynote

30 – 75 min
from €5,000
  • Fully customised to your theme & audience
  • Pre-event stakeholder call included
  • Audience Q&A
  • Post-talk summary deck
  • Travel & accommodation on top
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Workshop / Masterclass

Half-day or full-day
let's talk
  • Interactive, hands-on format
  • Up to 40 participants
  • Workbooks & takeaway tools
  • Pre-session needs analysis
  • Travel & accommodation on top
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Virtual / Hybrid

30 – 60 min
from €3,000
  • Keynote or workshop format
  • Global audience, any timezone
  • Breakout facilitation available
  • Recording included
  • No travel costs — obvious, right?
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Dorka's Speaker Bucket List

I'll speak for free* in these countries

Life is short and my bucket list is long. If your event is in Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, or Peru — cover my flights and hotel, and the keynote fee is on me. Seriously.

*Free as in zero speaking fee. Travel + accommodation still applies. Yes, this is a real offer.

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Non-profit & social impact organisations: reach out anyway. Science-backed leadership development shouldn't be a luxury — and Dorka means it.

HUMAN
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You'll go deeper with AI than with any human helper, ever. Not because it's smarter. Simply because you have no shame threshold with it. And that will be what prepares your path to the humans who can actually help.

— Dorka Nagy-Józsa

Latest Thinking

From the Y2Y Weekly

Leadership & Generations

How Old Is the CEO?

The most important interview question of 2026. Your CEO's age predicts your remote work policy — and Stanford has the data to prove it.

Read on Y2Y → AI & Brain Science

The Multitasking Renaissance

We spent a decade killing multitasking. Now your ADHD colleague running 47 browser tabs might be the most evolved person in the room.

Read on Y2Y → Organizational Behavior

Back-Sitting: The Silent Crisis

Your people are trapped. And they know it. They're sitting with their backs to the future — not looking forward, not steering.

Read on Y2Y → AI & Human Behavior

The First You'll Trust Without a Shame Threshold

AI won't replace human helpers. It will be what finally prepares your path to them — because you have no shame threshold with a machine.

Read on Y2Y → Leadership Development

Nature vs Nurture: The Question We'll Never Answer

Leadership isn't a vitamin deficiency. It's practice. Daily work. Feedback. Failure. The right question isn't whether leaders are born — it's how we develop them.

Read on Y2Y →
Y2Y Weekly

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New research-backed insights every week on leadership, neuroscience, AI, and the future of work.
On Stage

In the Room

4 continents · 2019–2026
Dorka Nagy-Józsa keynote at IFPSM World Summit, China
IFPSM World SummitXiamen, China · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa at Coca-Cola factory
Coca-Cola HBCBudapest · 2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa at BusinessFest Forbes
BusinessFest · ForbesBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa presenting at Portfolio conference
Portfolio ConferenceBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa on IFPSM stage in blue suit
IFPSM KeynoteXiamen · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa on stage with shark visual
Main StageNeuroscience Talk
Dorka Nagy-Józsa at HR Revolution
HR (R)evolutionBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa smiling with microphone
Portfolio · PanelBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa with audience
BusinessFestAudience View · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa AI presentation
AI & LeadershipBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa walking on IFPSM stage
IFPSM Main StageChina · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa shaking hands with robot in China
AI & Robotics ExpoChina · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa winning HRBEST People award
HRBEST People AwardBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa on main stage
Conference Keynote2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa portrait
IFPSM PortraitXiamen · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa panel discussion
Next Gen Shared ServicesPanel · 2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa speaking
Keynote2024
WorldSkills Opening Ceremony fireworks
WorldSkills Opening CeremonyLyon · 2024
Dorka receiving certificate at IFPSM China
IFPSM CertificateChina · 2025
WorldSkills Hungarian Team
WorldSkills Team HungaryLyon · 2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa at Portfolio AI in Business
Portfolio · AI in BusinessBudapest · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa keynote at Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola HBCLeadership Day · 2024
TEDxWomen speakers
TEDxWomenBudapest
Denver venue with mountain view
SHRM VenueDenver, CO · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa — Female Factor Voice of a New Era of Leaders
Voice of a New Era of LeadersFemale Factor · 2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa selfie at Denver SHRM
SHRM ConferenceDenver, CO · 2025
Dorka Nagy-Józsa at BusinessFest
BusinessFestBudapest · 2024
Dorka Nagy-Józsa panel discussion laughing
Panel Discussion2024
Speaking Style

An experience that
resonates & transforms

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Scientific Storytelling

Engaging narratives that blend neuroscience research with compelling leadership anecdotes and real-world case studies that land with every audience.

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Audience-Centric

Tailored presentations for diverse audiences including C-suite executives, HR leaders, tech innovators, and educators — across industries and cultures.

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Interactive Insights

Dynamic delivery with audience participation, live demonstrations, and practical tools participants can implement immediately the next day.

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Lasting Impact

Known for creating powerful "aha" moments that translate into sustained organizational change. Humor, vulnerability, and scientific precision — all at once.

Background

Credentials &
professional background

Certifications

ICF Coach & Neuroleadership

ICF-certified coach. Certified in advanced neuroleadership, organizational development, and professional coaching methodologies.

Elite Performance

Certified Sport Mental Coach

Certified sport mental coach bringing elite athlete mindset training to leadership. Applies performance psychology principles from competitive sports to high-stakes business environments.

National Team

WorldSkills Hungary · Mental Coach

Y2Y is responsible for the mental preparation of the Hungarian national team competing at WorldSkills International — the world championship of vocational skills.

Industry Leadership

AI & Change Advisory

Extensive experience advising leaders on AI adoption, human factors in technology, and neuroscience-informed change management. Regular thought leadership contributor.

CEO

Y2Y Ltd.

Founder and CEO of Y2Y — a leadership development consultancy specializing in neuroscience-based organizational transformation and team performance.

Global Stage

4 Continents · 300+ Events

Featured speaker at SHRM, ICF, IFPSM World Summit, ITBN ConXpo, HR (R)EVOLUTION, WorldSkills, and leadership & HR summits across four continents.

What People Say

From the people
who were actually there

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I had a 3pm back-to-back so I was genuinely planning to slip out after 20 minutes. I didn't. I'm not sure exactly when that decision happened — somewhere between the prefrontal cortex part and the moment she made a room of 400 procurement professionals laugh at themselves. I flew back and cancelled two vendor contracts we didn't need.

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Marta Wijbenga
Chief People Officer · Mollie
NL
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I've counted — somewhere around 280 presentations on change management. After 200 you stop expecting surprises. Dorka managed to surprise me. Not in a gimmicky way — more like the feeling when someone explains something you've been doing wrong for years, but without making it humiliating. We had her back six months later for our senior leadership days.

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Tobias Kirchner
Head of Org Development · KION Group
DE
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I don't write these. Making an exception. Two days after the keynote, three of my direct reports — none of whom knew the others were doing it — sent me essentially the same message. One used the phrase "I finally understand why I've been wrong about my team." I don't know what she did but it worked.

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Erik Magnusson
CEO · Scan Global Logistics
SE
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She spent maybe 15 minutes methodically taking apart every culture transformation framework I've used for the last seven years. I was in the front row. It was uncomfortable in an extremely useful way — which is not a sentence I expected to say about a keynote. What I didn't expect was to leave with three actual, concrete things I could do on Monday. That almost never happens at these things. Usually it's "you need to be more agile" and a QR code to a podcast.

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Katarzyna Lis
VP People & Culture · Allegro
PL
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I booked her on a strong abstract and one reference call that was just "you won't regret it." Not a lot to go on. Accurate though. The thing that stays with me is that the science didn't feel like a credential flex — it felt like she was genuinely trying to explain something she finds fascinating. That's rare. Also she's funny in a way that doesn't feel rehearsed, which is even rarer.

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Sandra Moretti
Director of L&D · Generali
IT
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