The Why of Movement
Workshops & Talks (30–60 mins)
Designed to fit easily into conferences, away days and workplace programmes, the talk combines accessible science, conversation and movement, giving people practical tools they can use every day.
Coach & Speaker
Sophie PlatoMovement for Positive Change
The starting point
The body influences everything.
We spend so much of modern life asking our minds to keep going while barely noticing the body carrying them.
My work helps people understand how simple, accessible movement can change the way we feel, think, perform and recover — not as another thing to achieve, but as something we can use in real life.
How we feelHow we thinkHow we performHow we recover
Movement for Positive Change
Movement belongs in life.
Not only in gyms, studios or the hour we manage to carve out for exercise.
It belongs in working days, conversations, commutes, classrooms, meetings and moments when we simply need to feel a little more like ourselves again.
Ways to work together
Flagship keynote
The Why of Movement
A practical, science-based talk exploring how movement influences how we feel, think, perform and recover.
What people say
What matters is what travels home with people.
Sophie is an amazing teacher and speaker. Her talks and movement programme are world class and bring intellectual rigour as well as practical and pragmatic movement exercises which build resilience and agility. All delivered with empathy and humour.James Bidwell — Author, Disrupt! · Entrepreneur & Investor
At first the movement exercises honestly felt strange. Now my co-workers and I take movement breaks at work, and my children and I do them while studying. Your class did not stop after those three days in Switzerland — it quietly spread into our office and our family life.Hannah — Master's Student, Glion Institute of Higher Education
Work with Sophie
Different rooms.
Same human bodies.
Talks and movement experiences are adapted to the people in the room and the reality of their day. No Lycra required. No touching your toes required either.
Selected organisations & collaborations
Amazon · Invesco · Linklaters · Glion Institute · HSMAI · LYMA · Saudi Vision 2030 · Sommet Magazine
For speaking enquiries, collaborations and partnerships.