Tanya Goodin holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Oxford and is currently reading for an MPhil in AI Ethics from the University of Cambridge.
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TANYA GOODIN – SEO ENTREPRENEUR
She is a proficient entrepreneur, having founded Tamar, one of the UK’s first digital marketing agencies, in 1995, where she was CEO until 2017. Impressively, Tamar was founded three years before Google was, and was the first digital agency to win Agency of the Year by the Financial Services Authority, now known as the Financial Conduct Authority. Through this agency, Tanya worked with blue chip companies, including Tesco Bank, Compare the Market, Boohoo, Bravissimo, RBS, The Prince’s Trust, and TeamGB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. In 2013, she founded Time To Log Off, the UK’s first digital detox and wellbeing movement, where she helps individuals and companies to better their technology relationships. Then in 2017, Tanya co-founded the Digital Wellness Initiative, a global organisation that brings together experts and thought leaders to advocate for policy on the healthy use of technology. Tanya Goodin’s expertise has seen her presenting evidence to the UK House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee, the All-Party Parliamentary Groups, and educational establishments on the impact social media, technology, and screens can have on young people’s mental health.
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TANYA GOODIN – PODCASTER
In 2019, Tanya launched her It’s Complicated podcast and has since recorded seven series. It features Tanya talking to academics, experts and high-profile celebrities on how they can help listeners with their relationship to smartphones, particularly focussing on how screens affect our work life, mental health, and sex life.
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TANYA GOODIN – MEDIA WORK
She is also an expert commentator on television, radio and print media. She has appeared on programmes, including BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC Breakfast, Sky News, ITN’s London Tonight, the BBC Money programme, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, and Talk RADIO. Her writing has been featured in The Sun, The Express, The Guardian, The London Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Independent, Good Housekeeping, Marketing Week, Red Magazine, and Travel and Leisure.
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TANYA GOODIN – AUTHOR
Tanya has published three successful books on humanity’s relationships with technology. The first, OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life, came out in 2017 and provided advice for all ages on switching off and creating a better tech relationship; this was followed up in 2018 with Stop Staring at Screens, a handbook on living happily with screens at home; and then My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open in 2021, looking at realistic ways to alleviate the negative impacts tech can have on us.
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TANYA GOODIN – PUBLIC SPEAKING
“I’ve transitioned from tech pioneer, with 25 years at the digital coalface, to digital canary. And spent the last decade warning about the coming danger. Now I want to help everyone survive the avalanche of problems that threatens to engulf us.” Tanya is an in-demand keynote speaker, providing anecdotes and key advice on balancing our technology relationship in the workplace and our personal lives. She is a highly experienced speaker on the topic of digital detox, as well as digital and mental wellbeing. With over 20 years of speaking experience, Tanya has appeared at client events, corporate training sessions, team wellbeing days, workshops, virtual conferences, festivals, and product launches. She has spoken to small audiences at intimate events and audiences of thousands at global conferences. Tanya has been a school speaker for over 10 years, speaking to junior and senior school pupils, their parents, and school staff members. Her educational talks revolve around online safety, cyberbullying, the comparison culture, good digital citizenship, online addictions, gaming, the attention economy, and mental health.
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TANYA GOODIN – SPEAKING TOPICS
- Managing screens for a healthy work-life balance
- Is it time for a digital detox?
- How to log off
- Screens and mental health: how much is too much?
- How to break up with your phone
- Time to log off? What we know about screen overuse and the brain
- Getting a better balance with screens
- It’s complicated: untangling our relationships with tech
- Wellness in the age of the smartphone
- Managing your digital footprint
- Teens and screens
- Screens and mental health
- Digital citizenship
- Living with robots: the challenges of AI
- Relying on the digital world when home working
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Tanya is passionate about sharing her expertise and often provides full or part-funded talks and visits to a number of eligible organisations annually through her Canary Fund.
Clients: Nomura, Siemens, Standard Chartered, Vodafone, AON, Economist Group, Eversheds
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To check fees and availability for digital wellbeing speaker Tanya Goodin, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289
