We’re facing unprecedented psychological and social dilemmas in our technologically saturated world. Elaine is a uniquely qualified guide in that new landscape, focusing on deepening wellbeing; maximising connection; and retaining our fundamental humanity. As a hybrid Cyberpsychologist and Counselling Psychologist, she believes in recognising and challenging narratives of helplessness in the face of technology; realising the fuller extent of our power; and building more meaningful lives with and through tech.

Elaine’s book Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life (Elliott & Thompson, 2024) examines how we use and abuse tech throughout our lives. Through novel insights and connections delivered in Elaine’s signature storytelling style, Reset inspires you to make values-driven, self-aware, smart choices about technology – choices that will help you be the person, parent, partner and worker you want to be. Elaine has also written All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of Your Personal Data (Robinson, 2019), an exposé of how the online dead affect the privacy, fortunes, and experience of the living in myriad, surprising and ever-evolving ways.

A keynote speaker, storyteller and trainer, Elaine has collaborated with clients and audiences worldwide, including Netflix, TEDx, House of Beautiful Business, Santander, Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Congreso Futuro, the NHS, the Edinburgh Fringe and Latitude. She is a regular contributor across the media.

She is an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton for her body of work on life in the digital age; an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.