Behavioural Scientist.
Keynote Speaker.
Author.

I'm Dr Brad Hodge - behavioural scientist, keynote speaker, facilitator, and author whose work is grounded in evolutionary psychology and behaviour change. I hold a doctorate in psychology, and I've spent the better part of my career doing one thing: working out why humans do what they do, and what to do about it.

The central argument is simple, even if the science isn't. Human behaviour becomes legible - almost predictable - once you understand what we're actually wired for. Strip back the org charts, the KPIs, and the leadership frameworks, and what you find underneath is an ancient creature with ancient needs, doing its best in a very modern world.

I work with leaders and organisations across sectors - not because something is broken, but because they want to build something genuinely worth building. My work interrupts comfortable assumptions, surfaces the questions most people are carefully avoiding, and then helps design the conditions for something better.

My background is deliberately broad. I've worked in rural health innovation, NFP governance, leadership development, and sleep research. I've led cycling expeditions, curated art exhibitions, and made genuinely stupid things with young people who needed someone to take them seriously.

I didn't go to university until my late thirties. My doctoral thesis was titled Getting students to work harder without making them hate you - which tells you most of what you need to know about how I think. Rigorous but human. Evidence-based but irreverent.

Across all of it I kept finding the same thing: humans are remarkably consistent once you understand what's driving them. That's the idea everything else is built on.

I am not a consultant who arrives with a pre-packaged answer. I am a thinking partner, a provocateur, and occasionally the person who says the thing nobody else in the room was willing to say. If nothing changes after I leave the room, I haven't done my job.