After another difficult year, it’s normal for energy levels to be lower and motivation to feel lacking (or absent entirely!). Though things may be looking tricky once again, we’re delighted to bring you this highly practical masterclass that will help you to dive into 2022 feeling positive and proactive.

Led by experts in the fields of nutrition, neuroscience, business and sport, this one-stop shop for making 2022 your best year yet will offer simple hacks and tips that you can easily put into practice, to help you set yourself genuinely actionable goals that work, and feel right for you.

With practical exercises and interactive Q&As, this masterclass is a must for anyone in need of some motivation, and will leave you with a focused plan for making the most of your year ahead.

Course content

Michelle Moore, award-winning leadership coach, author and educator, will show you how a sports mindset and the right kind of discipline for your lifestyle can help you to harness productivity for your personal and professional lives.
When it comes to gut health, in an age of misinformation and oversaturated internet advice, how can you discern fact from fiction? Registered nutritional therapist, author and podcaster, Eve Kalinik, will enlighten you to the top 10 nutrition hacks that will get you well on your way to good gut health.
Let’s Grid! Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier, neuroscientist and wellbeing expert, will lead an interactive exercise using her grid productivity tool, so that you can discover how to set goals that move you towards greater safety, connection and joy.
Simon Alexander Ong, life coach and business strategist, will reveal how to get more energy to help you achieve your goals, and go from feeling exhausted to highly energised.

This course is for…

Anyone in need of a bit of motivation to make 2022 their best year yet
Those looking for advice on how to set a realistic and achieve plan
Anyone who wants to optimise their nutrition and health by making simple, doable changes

Tutor Profiles

Michelle Moore is an award-winning leadership coach, author, speaker and educator, who was voted as one of the UK’s 50 Most Influential Women in Sport. For the past 20 years she has been working in senior leadership roles across sport, government and education, and her pioneering work has transformed the lives of professionals, young people, athletes and the culture of many organisations. She is the recipient of the 2016 UK Precious Award as an Outstanding Woman in Sport, a Football Black List award, and a national Change Maker award. Michelle speaks, moderates and hosts events and keynotes for organisations including the University of Cambridge, the NBA and UNICEF UK. She has chaired events at the United Nations and presented to the House of Lords. Michelle also makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4, TRT World, Channel 4 and BBC World Service Sportshour, and she has been featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Times and the Independent. Her book, Real Wins, was published in November 2021 by Hachette UK.

Eve Kalinik is a nutritional therapist, author and podcaster. Her first book, Be Good to Your Gut, was published in 2017, and her second, Happy Gut, Happy Mind, in 2020. As a specialist in gut health, Eve believes that having a healthy gut is fundamental to our overall wellbeing. She is passionate about how food makes us feel both mentally and physically, and she creates recipes to reflect this sentiment. In August 2021, Eve and Rosemary Ferguson launched their podcast, The Wellness Breakdown, which sees them aim to separate health fads from fiction by putting themselves in the hot seat. Eve regularly hosts interactive workshops, talks and retreats with high-profile media, brands and wellbeing companies. She is a registered member of the Institute of Functional Medicine, the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy, and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. She also holds a BA in Psychology.

Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier is the founder of Make Time Count Ltd, a productivity and wellbeing expert, a neuroscientist, an international keynote speaker, and an educator. She is the creator of the Grid work-life balance method, which is based on the crucial insight that in order to thrive, we must include career management and self-care into the work-life balance equation. Grid has been called “an ingenious goal-tracking system with a strong visual element” by Psychologies Magazine UK. Magdalena’s books include Get Productive! (2011), Body Talk (2019) and Get Productive Grid (2015). Her current work explores how Grid supports human flourishing, effective habit change, mental health and burnout. Magdalena is passionate about free speech and supporting quality journalism. She has generously waived her fee for the session and donated it to help keep investigative journalism independent.

Simon Alexander Ong is an award-winning coach and motivational speaker. He has been interviewed on Sky News, BBC and Forbes, and has worked with many top organisations including Barclays, Google, LSE and Virgin. Everything that SImon does is built to energise people to see their world differently, and to awaken their imagination of what is truly possible, so that they can live a better story. His debut book, Energize: Find Your Spark, Achieve More and Live Better, will be published in April 2022 by Penguin, and is now available for pre-order.

Course Details

Date: Wednesday 12 January 2022
Time: 6pm-8.30pm (GMT)

6pm GMT | 7pm CST | 10am PT | 1pm ET

This masterclass is available globally. If you are joining us from outside the United Kingdom, please use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.

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Wellbeing hacks: Make 2022 your best year yet