Dr Lucy Hone is a globally recognised expert in resilience psychology and wellbeing science.

Working directly with communities affected by the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, Lucy believed that she had found her purpose.

It was here that Lucy began to understand the complexities of grief and loss, and how to harness resilience in the everyday so that we aren’t just coping, but flourishing.

Tragically, in 2014, Lucy’s 12 year-old-daughter Abi was killed in a car accident. Now faced with every parent’s worse nightmare, Lucy threw herself into research, with herself as the test subject, trying to understand grief and how people can continue to live fulfilling lives after such a cataclysmic loss.

Lucy’s Ted Talk, the “Three Secrets of Resilient People” has had more than 9 million views and is now in the global top 100 of most watched Ted Talks of all time.

Lucy is a director at the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, and her research has been peer reviewed and published in a plethora of sociological and psychological journals.

Lucy has published two books; Resilient Grieving and most recently, How Will I Ever Get Through This?