Keynotes that Shift Perspectives
Dr. Mouna is an appreciated inspirational speaker. Being philosophically trained, she is an excellent thought-initiator who gives perspective to any discussion. She has a strong medical background with a focus on neuroscience, longevity, technology and science.
Having been a personal doctor and health advisor for several royalties, business leaders and world leading artists, and taking her own journey as a pioneering entrepreneur for a decade, has given Dr. Mouna a unique hands-on experience in regards to business operation, leadership and top-performance.
Speaking and Consulting
Mouna has delivered more than 100 keynotes across fifteen countries — from intimate boardrooms to stages shared with Barack Obama. In 2023, she received Sweden's Grand Speaker Award (Stora Talarpriset), the country's highest recognition for public speaking, for her ability to combine intellectual depth with emotional power.
She does not give motivational talks. She gives her audiences a new way to think.
Trained in neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, philosophy at the University of Oslo, and tested by a decade of building companies and advising leaders at the highest level, Mouna brings something rare to any stage or strategy table: the ability to connect what science knows with what humanity needs.
Keynote topics
Mouna tailors every talk to the audience and the moment. Her keynotes draw from four areas of deep expertise:
Human potential What are we actually capable of? Mouna draws on neuroscience, longevity research, and her clinical experience to challenge assumptions about human limits — in health, in cognition, and in what we dare to imagine for ourselves. For audiences in healthcare, executive leadership, or anyone confronting the question of peak performance.
The future human Genetic editing. Neural interfaces. AI that outperforms doctors. The technology is arriving faster than our ethics. Mouna brings a neuroscientist's precision and a philosopher's discomfort to the question no one is answering well enough: what kind of humans do we want to become? For audiences navigating digital transformation, AI strategy, or the future of their industry.
The mind Mouna's doctoral research mapped the dopamine system. Her public career has been spent translating brain science into language people can feel. She speaks about how the brain learns, decides, breaks down, and rebuilds — and why understanding your own mind is the most strategic advantage you will ever have. For audiences in leadership, education, well-being, and organizational culture.
Meaning & resilience Born during a revolution. Clinical death at three. Refugee. Physician. Entrepreneur. Mouna's life is the talk. She speaks about what it means to survive, to rebuild, and to find meaning not despite adversity but because of it — and why resilience is not a personality trait but a practice. For audiences seeking perspective, especially in times of uncertainty and change.
"She is engaging, eloquent, present, and dares to take a stand. As a researcher she can speak about things both monumental and everyday — in a way that inspires and makes us curious."
— GRAND SPEAKER AWARD 2023 — SWEDEN'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS SPEAKER AWARD
Formats
Mouna is available for keynote addresses (30–60 min), panel moderation, fireside conversations, and full-day masterclasses.
She speaks in English and Swedish, and has experience with audiences ranging from 20 executives to 10,000+ at arena events.
Past engagements include Brilliant Minds (Stockholm), the Royal Technology Mission to China with King Carl XVI Gustaf, the European Parliament, TEDx, corporate leadership summits, and global healthcare conferences.
Strategic advisory
Beyond the stage, Mouna serves as a strategic advisor to organizations working at the intersection of technology, health, and the future of humanity.
Her current advisory work includes the European Commission's committee on artificial intelligence. She draws on a rare combination of perspectives: a neuroscientist who understands how the brain works, an entrepreneur who has built and scaled companies, and an investor who evaluates risk and opportunity across industries as executive vice chairman of EHAB.
Mouna is available for advisory board positions, executive workshops, and long-term strategic advisory engagements in the following areas:
AI governance, ethics, and neurorights — helping organizations navigate the moral and regulatory landscape of artificial intelligence and neural technology.
Longevity and the future of healthcare — from precision medicine strategy to corporate health programs built on the science of healthy aging.
Science communication and public positioning — advising leaders and organizations on how to communicate complex ideas with clarity, credibility, and impact.
Leadership and human performance — drawing on neuroscience and a decade of advising high-performers, from Olympic athletes to CEOs.
Book Mouna
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On Stage
Dr. Mouna Esmaeilzadeh has delivered over 100 keynotes across fifteen countries to audiences of more than fifty thousand people. She has shared the stage with Barack Obama at Brilliant Minds, represented Sweden on the Royal Technology Mission led by King Carl XVI Gustaf, and been named Fact-Based Optimist of the Year by Warp Institute and Google. Recognized as one of Sweden's 101 Supertalents by Veckans Affärer, awarded the MENSA Prize for exceptional science communication, and honored with the Powergirl Award by UN Women Sweden, she brings a rare combination to the stage: clinical authority, scientific depth, and a personal story that stays with audiences long after the applause ends.
Her signature keynotes span the four themes that define her work: the science of living longer, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and the urgent case for protecting the human mind. Whether addressing a boardroom of twenty or a conference hall of five thousand, she makes complex science feel personal — and leaves every audience with a clear understanding of why the future is worth fighting for.
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Live 150 years
Seven of ten Western deaths are largely preventable. The science of longevity — from senolytics to gene editing to metabolic reprogramming — is rewriting the rules of aging. As the founder of one of the world's first longevity clinics, Mouna translates frontier research into practical insights for audiences who want to live longer, healthier, and more deliberately.
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The Future is Brighter Than You Can Imagine
Mouna's family fled Iran with nothing — she arrived in Sweden as a three-year-old refugee whose heart had stopped in the Kurdish mountains. This keynote traces the path from that moment to physician, neuroscientist, and co-founder of a billion-SEK investment firm. Drawing on her own story and the neuroscience of starting over, Mouna makes the case that resilience is not a trait but a practice — and that the people who build the most are usually the ones who began with the least.
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Building from scratch
At the age of three, Mouna's heart stopped in the Kurdish mountains as her family fled Iran. She was revived by village women using nothing but body heat and breath. The family arrived in Sweden as refugees — no language, no network, no money, no plan. Just the raw conviction that the life they had been given was not the life they would accept.
This is not a rags-to-riches story. It is a talk about what it actually takes to build something from nothing — and what no one tells you about the cost.
Tailor your event
Every keynote and/or seminar is adapted to your audience, industry, and objectives. Whether it is a boardroom of twenty or a conference hall of five thousand, Dr. Mouna draws on her unique combination of clinical medicine, neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and personal story to deliver a talk that is specific to your context — not a rehearsed script. Get in touch to discuss format, topic, and how to make the most of your event.
“Dr. Esmaeilzadeh brings the weight of personal experience to the most urgent questions of our time”
— European Commission (AI advisory review)
“What surprised us was her range. She moved from gene editing to parenting to the ethics of AI and none of it felt forced. It all connected. Our audience rated her 4.9 out of 5, the highest score in our conference’s history”
— Head of Events, International leadership conference
“One of the most important voices in the conversation about what technology owes to humanity”
— Brilliant Minds Foundation
Science and meaning.
“We can edit genes like text messages, read brain activity in real time, and build intelligence that surpasses our own. We can play God. The only question that matters now is whether we are wise enough to do it well.”
— Doctor Mouna