Ben Campagna - Speaker on resilience
Multidisciplinary expert in chronic stress and sustainable performance, Ben Campagna supports leaders and management teams from exhaustion to resilience and alignment.
Ben Campagna is an international speaker, executive coach, and specialist in human behavior, sustainable performance, and human optimization.
With an academic background in psychology and sports sciences, combined with advanced training in behavioral change, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, physiology, and performance coaching, he has spent over 12 years working with executives, management teams, and high-performing individuals across Switzerland and internationally.
His work focuses on helping individuals and organizations transition from chronic stress, fragmentation, and misalignment to clarity, resilience, coherence, and sustainable performance.
Blending science, physiology, psychology, movement, and strategic coaching, his approach goes well beyond traditional well-being or motivational speaking. His interventions are designed to create deep behavioral changes, restore human regulation under pressure, and reconnect performance with alignment and long-term sustainability.
Ben has worked with multinational companies, management teams, and high-level decision-makers through conferences, executive interventions, and transformation programs centered on stress mastery, leadership, resilience, human optimization, and radical realignment.
He works in both French and English.
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Frequently asked questions
Which topics does Ben Campagna cover as a speaker?
Ben Campagna speaks on the following topics: resilience, gestion du stress, burnout prevention, leadership, performance, neurosciences, developpement personnel and bien etre au travail.
How do I book Ben Campagna for a conference?
To book Ben Campagna, contact the Lespeakers agency. An advisor will call you back to scope the event, dates and format.
How much does a conference with Ben Campagna cost?
Ben Campagna's fees:
- Conference : 6500 €
Booking is handled through Lespeakers.
Which languages does Ben Campagna speak on stage?
Ben Campagna speaks as speaker in french and english.
Where is Ben Campagna based?
Here is where Ben Campagna is based: Switzerland.
What did Ben Campagna do before becoming a speaker?
Before becoming a speaker, I had already been in the field for years in human support.
I started very young, at the age of 17-18, working directly with human beings through mentoring, coaching, holistic health, human behavior, and performance.
I have supported athletes, worked with people going through different forms of human suffering and life transitions, and very early on with high performers, founders, leaders, and executive profiles, already in my twenties.
My journey has been built in reality, in direct contact with individuals, concrete transformations, and results achieved in the field.
At the same time, I trained academically in psychology, sports sciences, nutrition, and performance, and through various advanced training programs in Europe and the United States around coaching, human behavior, communication, change, and human optimization.
Combat sports have also profoundly shaped my trajectory and my understanding of humanity, far beyond their simple physical dimension.
Deep down, I have never really "done anything else" before becoming a speaker. Very early on, I was giving my first speeches and conferences. This profession is not an opportunistic career change for me, but the natural expression of a vocation that has gradually developed through real human experience.
What led Ben Campagna to become a speaker?
The common thread that has led me to this profession is this deep vocation to transmit everything I learn.
Very early in my twenties, this led me to give my first conference on holistic health and nutrition, particularly for a football team. Then very quickly, still in my twenties, I intervened in a large international multinational whose headquarters is in Switzerland around the science of change, the creation of change, and the psychology of change applied to the field. And that remains something I am very proud of.
What led me to do this job is deeply this desire to be able to transmit what I feel can be useful to others. And I believe that, in all humility, my zone of genius, if I can call it that, probably lies there, in this capacity for transmission and human impact.
This is what I do individually with coaching, and it is what conferences allow me to do on a larger scale, amplifying that impact.
And what makes me particularly proud is that all of this has been built above all thanks to the results obtained concretely in the field with real human beings. It is this reality that has gradually led me to be listened to, and then invited to speak in front of groups, teams, and organizations.
Why book Ben Campagna rather than another speaker?
Because Ben Campagna’s work goes beyond motivation, traditional wellbeing initiatives or surface-level performance coaching.
He combines psychology, neuroscience, physiology, behavioural science and human optimisation into a deeply integrated and highly practical approach designed for leadership teams and high-pressure environments.
What often differentiates his work is the ability to address not only performance itself, but the human foundations beneath it, stress regulation, clarity, resilience, alignment, meaning and sustainable leadership capacity.
Organisations typically invite Ben when they want more than inspiration, they want lasting shifts in the way people lead, perform and operate under pressure.
What is Ben Campagna's speaking angle?
Ben Campagna’s unique angle lies in his ability to bridge psychology, neuroscience, physiology and human optimisation with the deeper human realities behind stress, leadership and performance.
His work creates a bridge between the hard sciences of human optimisation and the deeper dimensions of human experience, meaning, alignment, wisdom and self-awareness. He is known for making complex human science practical, accessible and deeply relevant to real life and leadership.
Known for making complex human science practical and deeply accessible, he helps leadership teams and high-performing individuals move from chronic stress and fragmentation toward greater clarity, coherence, resilience and sustainable performance.
How does the audience experience a talk by Ben Campagna?
Ben Campagna’s interventions are designed to be experienced not only intellectually, but emotionally and personally.
Audiences often describe a mix of reflection, impact, humour, emotional depth, clarity and genuine human connection. His style can be thought-provoking, confronting, reassuring, moving or playful depending on the moment, always with the intention of creating an experience that resonates beyond information alone.
Why do organizers like working with Ben Campagna?
I think organizers appreciate working with me for my professionalism, reliability, and genuine involvement in understanding their audience and needs.
With experience, I have developed a good ability to quickly understand human dynamics, implicit expectations, the context of an event, and the type of impact truly sought. This generally allows me to propose interventions that are very aligned with what organizers hope to create for their audience, even going beyond their expectations.
I sincerely seek to serve the impact desired by the organization and the people present in the room, rather than simply delivering a standardized performance.
I also believe I am appreciated for a way of working that is both human, adaptable, and simple in relationships, without a diva attitude, with a concern for collaborating in a fluid, respectful, and professional manner.
What concrete results can the audience expect after a talk by Ben Campagna?
Ben Campagna’s work is designed to create meaningful and lasting shifts in the way people understand themselves, stress, performance and leadership.
His conferences
Chronic Well-Being — The Science of Sustainable Leadership and Performance
High performance without regulation ultimately becomes self-destruction.
In this conference, Ben Campagna brings together neuroscience, psychology, physiology, and behavioral science to offer leadership teams a radically different understanding of well-being, stress, and sustainable performance.
Rather than treating well-being as a secondary or ancillary topic, this conference recontextualizes it as a strategic foundation for resilience, clarity, decision-making, creativity, and long-term leadership capacity.
Ben explores why so many high-performing individuals and organizations find themselves trapped in cycles of chronic stress, fragmentation, and unconscious behavioral patterns, despite external success. He demonstrates how modern lifestyles, constant cognitive overload, and disconnection from human physiology silently erode performance, culture, and the quality of leadership over time.
At the heart of this conference is a central shift: stress itself is not the enemy. Chronic dysregulation is. When properly understood and managed, stress becomes a catalyst for focus, adaptation, growth, and flow.
Blending scientific depth with highly practical tools, Ben helps participants understand how to regulate pressure, break unconscious patterns, and create the internal conditions necessary for sustainable high performance.
Key themes include: • The difference between adaptive stress and chronic stress • Why well-being is a strategic leadership issue, not a comfort initiative • The neuroscience of resilience, recovery, and flow states • Behavioral loops that lead to burnout, fragmentation, and disengagement • The impact of movement, physiology, and lifestyle on cognition and leadership capacity • How unconscious patterns shape culture, decision-making, and team dynamics • Practical tools for cultivating clarity, regulation, and sustainable performance under pressure • The science of sustainable behavioral change in rapidly evolving environments
More than a conference on well-being, Chronic Well-Being is designed as a profound recalibration of how leadership teams understand performance, stress, resilience, and human sustainability in the modern world.
Movement — The Missing Link for Mental Health, Stress Mastery, and Sustainable High Performance
The body is not separate from the mind. It shapes it.
In this talk, Ben Campagna explores the deep and often underestimated relationship between movement, mental health, cognitive performance, and emotional regulation.
Far beyond the culture of fitness or exercise, this talk demonstrates how movement directly influences energy, stress resilience, clarity, motivation, emotional stability, and decision-making ability. Drawing on psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and behavioral sciences, Ben explains why many modern mental and emotional struggles are deeply linked to chronic physical inactivity and physiological dysregulation.
Through a pragmatic and accessible approach, participants discover how movement acts not only as a tool for physical health but as a powerful biological lever for mental clarity, emotional balance, and sustainable performance.
Key themes include: • The direct impact of movement on the brain and nervous system • Sedentary lifestyles, stress, and cognitive decline • Why movement regulates mood, motivation, and emotional resilience • The relationship between physiology, energy, and mental clarity • Movement as a tool for stress regulation and performance optimization • Behavioral patterns that disconnect people from their own biology • Practical strategies for reintegrating movement into modern professional life
Rather than promoting an extreme fitness culture, this talk offers a realistic and transformative framework to help individuals and organizations reconnect with movement as a fundamental pillar of mental health, well-being, and high performance.
Mastering Stress — From Chronic Stress to Flow
Stress is not the enemy. Chronic stress is.
In this conference, Ben Campagna challenges the outdated narrative surrounding stress and well-being. Rather than promoting avoidance, comfort, or mere "stress reduction," he introduces a radically different perspective: stress is a fundamental biological mechanism, essential for growth, performance, adaptation, and even accessing flow states.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, physiology, and human behavior, this conference explores why modern individuals and leadership teams do not collapse due to stress itself, but due to chronic dysregulation, lifestyle fragmentation, and a dysfunctional relationship with pressure.
With a science-based yet highly accessible approach, Ben helps audiences understand the true mechanisms behind stress, performance, resilience, and sustainable energy. He connects cutting-edge understanding with practical tools that participants can apply immediately in professional and personal environments.
Key themes include: • The difference between adaptive stress and chronic stress • Why stress is necessary for performance, growth, and flow state • The neuroscience of pressure, regulation, and recovery • Behavioral patterns that silently create chronic overload • Sustainable performance versus self-destructive performance • How physiology, movement, sleep, mindset, and environment shape resilience • Practical strategies for cultivating clarity, energy, and stress mastery under pressure
More than a traditional well-being conference, Mastering Stress is designed to create profound changes in perception and behavior, helping individuals and organizations move from survival mode to clarity, coherence, resilience, and sustainable high performance.