Milo Wilkinson

award winning behavioural scientist

Milo Wilkinson is an international award winning Behavioural Scientist who specialises in behavioural patterns, crisis leadership and spends her days analysing human behaviour in order to predict outcomes. As a Behavioural Scientist, criminal profiler, high-performance sporting, and corporate coach, Milo Wilkinson has studied CEOs, top athletes, psychopaths, criminals, and everyone in between. She has seven degrees in the areas of cognitive and clinical neurosciences, criminal sciences, psychology and psychotherapy. Milo has recently completed a world first co-design project with Harvard University Neuroscience Department secretly discovering the functions of the unconscious brain and has been the Peak Performance Behavioural Scientist for some top Sporting Teams across the globe including the Sydney Swans, European Rugby and the NBA.

Brain 101: Turning Instincts into Peak Performance


Recruiters trust their gut every single day - on candidates, on clients, on calls that make or break a placement. But what if that "gut feel" is actually one of the most sophisticated instruments you own, and almost nobody's been taught how to actually use it?


In this electrifying, research-backed keynote, behavioural scientist Milo Wilkinson takes you straight into the engine room of your own mind - the primal, subconscious brain quietly running over 90% of your decisions before you're even aware you've made them. This isn't theory delivered from a stage. It's a live, real-world experiment, with you as both subject and discovery, that will make you question how much of your "instinct" is actually instinct - and how much is pattern, bias, or noise dressed up as intuition.


For an industry built on rapid judgment calls - reading a candidate in minutes, sensing when a deal's about to fall over, knowing which placement will stick - this session reframes instinct as a skill that can be sharpened, not just trusted blindly. You'll walk away with practical, science-grounded strategies to build mental agility under pressure, sharpen your read on people, and turn split-second decisions into a genuine competitive edge.



Equal parts science, spectacle, and self-discovery, Cognitive Alchemy doesn't just teach the brain - it puts it on full display, live, in the room.