Make pressure visible. Make performance trainable.
Felix Strobl is The Neuro Musician. He studied neuroscience at King’s College London, sings as a classically trained opera tenor and spent years as a paramedic deciding under real pressure. On stage he brings all three together: live opera, a breathing exercise the whole room does at once, and a real-time reading of what the audience’s own brains are doing.
Three careers taught Felix Strobl one thing: what happens in the human nervous system when it matters most. The opera stage taught him how presence, voice and emotion move an audience. The emergency service taught him how people decide under real pressure, in seconds, with no second chance. Neuroscience gave him the why.
He studied neuroscience at King’s College London (IoPPN) and serves as Innovation Advisor at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing and at Ageing Research at King’s (ARK). He is a Research Fellow of the European Society of Preventive Medicine, where he co-edited the fourth edition of the “Longevity” book. He initiated MEA (Music, Emotion, Breathing), a Swiss project exploring how singing and breathing support people recovering from Long COVID.
Felix Strobl’s Lecture Topics
- The Resonant Leader
Using neuroscience and music to lead through change.
Change fails in the nervous system long before it fails in the strategy. Felix shows what a reorganisation, a merger or an AI rollout actually does to the people asked to carry it, and what a leader can do about it in the room, in real time. For leadership conferences, transformation kick-offs and management offsites.
- Strong Under Pressure
Brain health and mental strength for high performers.
What keeps a brain sharp under sustained load, and what quietly erodes it. Felix translates current neuroscience on stress, recovery and brain health into habits that survive a working week, and has the audience practise them on the spot. For sales kick-offs, partner meetings and health-focused events.
- The Last Human Skill
AI, the nervous system and the judgement machines cannot take over.
An algorithm decides faster than anyone in the room. What it cannot do is hold its nerve when the stakes are real and the clock is running. Felix shows where human judgement still beats the machine, why it collapses under pressure, and how to train it. For professional services firms, boards and AI transformation programmes.
Other topics for his talks might include, for example:
- Leadership and change: why transformation fails in the nervous system
- Pressure and performance: how people decide when it counts
- Brain health and longevity: keeping a brain sharp for decades
- Music, voice and emotion: the science of resonance and connection
- AI and the human factor: what stays human when machines get faster
His keynotes answer one question for leaders and high performers: why does change fail in the nervous system long before it fails in the strategy? Audiences leave with three things. Clarity on what pressure does to a brain. A live moment that shifts the energy of the room. And simple, evidence-based breathing techniques they can use the same afternoon.
Felix speaks in English, German and French. He opens with his voice, not with a slide, and he can show an audience, live, what their own brain is doing.
Your Brain on Opera. Felix sings live while the audience watches its own brain activity change on screen, measured in real time with in-ear EEG. This is not a separate talk. It is the moment that makes every keynote his: the room does not hear about nervous system regulation, it watches its own.