Dr Elaine Kasket

Why organisations work with Elaine Kasket

• She is one of the few cyberpsychologists in Europe who is also a clinically trained, HCPC-registered counselling psychologist, which means her advice on digital wellbeing is grounded in clinical practice, not commentary.
• Her work covers technology across the full lifespan, from “sharenting” to digital afterlife, which gives leaders a coherent framework for thinking about the employee, the customer, and the citizen as the same person.
• She wrote the definitive trade book on digital death and digital legacy, All the Ghosts in the Machine, and now leads on the psychology of AI companions and grief bots, an area few executive audiences have heard explained well.
• She has consulted to organisations including Netflix, Santander, Deloitte, the NHS and Hill & Knowlton Strategies, so the work translates from research into board-level conversations about AI, attention and surveillance.
• Her newest book, Reset, gives leadership teams a practical vocabulary for agency over technology rather than the usual digital detox framing, which most senior buyers find too thin for adult professional audiences.

Biography highlights

• BPS-Chartered Psychologist and HCPC-Registered Counselling Psychologist; Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• Visiting Professor at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath; formerly Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton
• Author of Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life (Elliott & Thompson, 2024) and All the Ghosts in the Machine (Robinson, 2019)
• TEDx Oxford speaker; featured expert in the Netflix documentary The Future Of: Life After Death
• Regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, CNN, BBC Ideas, The Guardian, New Scientist, Psychology Today and Stylist
• Keynote engagements include Santander, Deloitte, the NHS, Royal Society of Medicine, Congreso Futuro, re:publica and the International Baccalaureate global conference

Biography

Most organisations talk about digital wellbeing in the language of the wellness industry: detoxes, screen-time apps, mindful breathing. The actual psychological problem is structural. Attention is being extracted, identity is being recorded, and the costs are showing up in engagement, retention and clinical mental health caseloads. That gap between the corporate vocabulary and the clinical reality is the space Elaine Kasket works in.

She trained as a counselling psychologist before cyberpsychology was a discipline, and is registered with the HCPC alongside her chartered psychologist status with the British Psychological Society. That clinical grounding is what separates her commentary from the commentary economy around technology. She led the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Regent’s University London, was Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton for five years, and is now Visiting Professor at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.

Her first trade book, All the Ghosts in the Machine (Robinson, 2019), opened a serious public conversation about digital legacy: what happens to your data, your accounts and your image when you die, and what that means for the people who outlive you. Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life (Elliott & Thompson, 2024) extends the argument across the full lifespan, from “digital gestation” and sharenting to surveillance, AI relationships and the digital afterlife.

For leadership audiences, she connects four conversations executives often run as separate problems: employee mental health, AI adoption, brand trust and data governance. Her recent keynotes for Santander, Deloitte, the NHS, the Royal Society of Medicine and Congreso Futuro have moved leaders away from “digital detox” framing and toward agency, the design question of how a workforce uses AI without losing the cognitive and relational ground organisations actually run on.

Key speaking topics

• Cyberpsychology and digital wellbeing
• Psychology of AI adoption at work
• AI companions, grief bots and the future of human connection
• Digital legacy, data privacy and digital afterlife
• Attention, surveillance and the extractive attention economy
• Technology across the lifespan, from sharenting to digital afterlives

Ideal for

• CHROs and Chief People Officers designing wellbeing, engagement and AI-readiness programmes
• Chief AI Officers and transformation leads embedding AI into employee experience and customer-facing tools
• Brand, marketing and communications leadership teams working on trust, privacy and AI narratives
• Boards and risk committees considering the human and reputational dimensions of data, surveillance and AI

Audience outcomes

• A clinically grounded read on what technology is actually doing to attention, identity and relationships at work
• A vocabulary for talking about digital wellbeing that holds up in front of clinicians, regulators and senior employees
• A clearer view of where AI companions, grief bots and synthetic relationships intersect with workforce mental health and brand risk
• A practical sense of what individual and organisational agency look like in an extractive attention economy
• A framework that connects digital legacy, data governance and employee trust as one coherent leadership question