The PlayFlow Keynote™

Zander Phelps — better known as zPlayCoach — brings 20+ years of experience exploring how purposeful play restores mental clarity, emotional balance, and team chemistry. His talks aren’t just inspiring — they’re interactive experiences that spark laughter, connection, and measurable mindset shifts.

Core Message

Play isn’t childish — it’s the nervous system’s fastest route back to brilliance.
When leaders learn to play with pressure, they transform stress into flow, competition into cooperation, and exhaustion into energy.

Keynote Topics

Choose from one of the signature keynotes — or request a custom version for your audience:

1. The Power of Play: The Antidote to Burnout
Discover how science-backed play principles reduce stress, boost creativity, and restore mental focus — even in high-stakes environments.

2. The Neuroscience of Laughter and Flow
Learn why laughter, curiosity, and movement activate the brain’s most powerful repair systems — and how to apply them in real time.

3. From Burnout to Brilliance: The PlayFlow Reset for Leaders
A transformational keynote that redefines high performance through the lens of play, resilience, and conscious leadership.

4. Building Playful Teams
A hands-on, laughter-filled keynote for organizations that want to elevate connection, morale, and trust — fast.

Audience Takeaways

  • A practical understanding of the PlayFlowState — and how to enter it anywhere, anytime

  • Simple “micro-play” techniques to relieve stress in 3 minutes or less

  • Renewed focus, energy, and creative drive

  • A shared sense of lightness, unity, and possibility

Ideal Audiences

  • Corporate leadership teams & executive offsites

  • Healthcare and wellness conferences

  • Education, innovation, and creativity summits

  • HR, employee engagement, and wellness events

Style & Format

Every keynote blends storytelling, science, humor, and audience participation.
Expect moments of laughter, movement, and connection — not another PowerPoint lecture.

Average length: 30–60 minutes (customizable)
Available formats: Live, virtual, or hybrid events

About zPlayCoach

Zander Phelps is an author, speaker, and wellness innovator known for helping people rediscover their vitality through movement-based play.
After leaving a high-pressure media career that led to burnout, he spent a decade exploring how play heals the mind and body — and developed The PlayFlow Method™, now used to help executives, educators, and healthcare professionals thrive.

Booking Info

Keynote Investment: Starting at $3,500 + travel
Includes pre-event strategy call and customized PlayFlow exercises for your audience.

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