Meet the Brains Behind the Production
Evelina Bereni is a business psychologist who studies what happens in the three seconds after two strangers say hello.
Nineteen years spent obsessing over the science of how humans communicate, connect and perform together revealed something deceptively simple yet often overlooked: connection isn't luck, it's a pattern, and most people never learn to read it. Because in a world where the tools and the job itself keep changing shape, the people you're connected to become more and more valuable.
She's a former AFR BOSS Best Places to Work judge and the creator of the PSYCHED Personal Networking Inventory™, her science-backed methodology for turning a room of strangers into a room of collaborators.
Her keynote work centres on relational energy: the energy people gain or lose in everyday interactions, and the leadership behaviours that decide whether performance compounds or drains under pressure. Spending her decades across aviation, construction, energy, mining, healthcare, technology, and professional services taught her the same lesson every time. High performance rarely breaks in the big moments and it's heavily impacted by the relationships we're surrounded by.
The same instinct for pattern-spotting drives the rest of her work. Psyched Productions builds facilitated networking activations for conferences and associations that turn a coffee break into real, tracked connection instead of small talk, alongside diagnostic tools that help people see their own connection patterns before they try to change them.
Evelina has delivered keynotes and leadership programs for Virgin Australia, Deloitte, Origin Energy, BHP, and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She created AMP'D UP™, her methodology for lifting energy in the room and building performance that holds under pressure instead of collapsing under it. Every audience, whether in a ballroom or around a conference-hall exchange wall, leaves with something they can use before they've left the building.
SPEAKER | PSYCHOLOGIST | SMALL TALK SCIENTIST
