Unlocking the power of our inner clocks

How can circadian adjustments help your organization? Lynne Peeples is ready to share science-based guidance that can yield unexpected results.

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Lynne can speak to range of audiences. Please fill out this request form if you are interested in having her give a lecture, moderate an event, or lead a workshop.

School boards
Businesses
Hospitals
Nursing homes
Sports teams
City planners
Architecture firms
Health agencies
Book clubs
Conferences

Recent appearances

In-person and live speaking engagements include:

From Day One – Live 2025
Douglas Public Health Network
Tucson Festival of Books
Association for Women in Science
University of Washington, Seattle
Lindbergh High School, Renton, Wash.
Sugar Shift Challenge
Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University
Powell’s City of Books, Portland, Ore.
Town Hall Seattle

Recent and upcoming appearances

Upcoming Events
Past Events

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Lynne can share circadian knowledge and tools with your company, organization, team, or school. Contact her through this form or at lynne@lynnepeeples.com.

March 19, 2025: Association for Women in Science

March 16, 2025: Tucson Festival of Books

October 21, 2024: SUBTEXT BOOKS

October 20, 2024: WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL

October 11, 2024: POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS

October 9, 2024: Health Storytelling Live Author Q&A

September 24, 2024: TOWN HALL SEATTLE

Lynne Peeples on King 5 NBC Seattle

Lynne Peeples returns to King 5 NBC Seattle

Lynne Peeples on KATU ABC Portland

Lynne Peeples on WGN9 Chicago

Lynne Peeples on 9Honey

A Sample of Speaking Topics

Lessons from a Cold War bunker

Lynne spent 10 days (and nights) without daylight, clocks, or other humans—50 feet underground in a Cold War-era missile silo. She emerged with lessons about what makes us tick, why our inner clocks get easily ticked off, and how to rescue our rhythms to live happier and healthier, and longer. Small changes in our behavior and environment can create big shifts.

Circadian Classrooms

Lynne speaks at teacher conferences, school boards, prep schools, and PTAs about the detrimental impacts of early start times in middle/high schools and windowless classrooms, as well as the potential benefits of sun-mimicking LED lighting and revising standardized testing times. She can relay success stories. She can also highlight how our lack of consideration of circadian rhythms has exacerbated inequities in schools.

Timely Business Tools

Lynne shares strategies to improve the health and happiness of employees while boosting productivity and performance—e.g., benefits of letting employees set their own schedules according to their chronotypes; best times of day to schedule meetings; optimal office lighting; health effects of shift work and means to mitigate those consequences.

Circadian Edge in Sports

Lynne discusses the use of circadian lighting in locker rooms and during travel, and other jet lag-mitigating and sleep-enhancing tools; how to identify players’ chronotypes and peak performance times, and hack inner clocks and manipulate rosters in alignment with competition times; how leagues have created an uneven playing field in terms of time zones crossed, jet lag accrued, and off-peak game times; considerations and solutions for student-athletes, especially in light of changes to collegiate athletic conferences.

Circadian Medicine

Lynne speaks to a range of audiences—research labs, pharmaceutical companies, clinics, pharmacies, and hospitals—about the translation of circadian science. We may be losing beneficial drugs (and money) during preclinical and clinical trials by not considering time of day. Timing procedures, vaccines, and other treatments could significantly improve effectiveness and decrease side effects. What’s more, optimizing shift work schedules could improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers and outcomes for patients.

Women’s Rhythms

A woman’s hormones naturally rise and fall on circadian and circa-monthly cycles. These rhythms also change during her life, significantly impacting sleep and overall health. Lynne discusses how circadian science can help a woman avoid circadian disruptors, support healthy fetal development, and anticipate and strengthen her rhythms across the decades—from pregnancy to menopause, and beyond.

Healthier built environments

Lynne offers city planners, architects, and interior designers strategies to brighten days and darken nights, a critical contrast that keeps our inner clocks in sync. She covers the dangers of daytime shadows and nighttime light pollution, as well as the powers of daylighting, artificial lighting, orientation, and reflections. She also details why certain spaces require different circadian considerations—e.g. hospital rooms, classrooms, and bedrooms.

Light Justice

Vulnerable populations are regularly deprived of both light during the day and darkness at night. Lynne discusses how and why we should address “daylight deserts” and “darkness deserts” as part of broader equity efforts, and incorporate them into social policies, urban planning, architecture, and interior design. She also reviews the history of light being weaponized against people of color.

Environmental Sustainability & Agriculture

Environmental groups, agricultural scientists, farmers, and others could gain from leveraging circadian science. Lynne covers tactics to produce greater yields, reduce inputs of water and chemicals, help crops withstand extreme conditions, and keep the inner clocks of harvested fruits and vegetables ticking longer. Tunable lighting and timed milkings can also improve a cow’s health and milk production. Dairy farmers might even leverage differences in the content of a cow’s day versus night milk to create specialty products.

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