Project kiakaha

Tom Mulholland

Attitude doctor

An Emergency Department Doctor for 30 years including 11 years at Auckland City Hospital

ED, Dr Mulholland has been an honorary lecturer in Psychological Medicine at the University of

Auckland. He is the founder of Doctor Global, the Healthy Thinking Institute and developer

of global wellbeing App KYND. An expert on workplace stress, emotional control,

productivity and wellbeing, Dr Mulholland has given over 1500 keynote presentations on

wellbeing to international clients including Google, Microsoft, and the Hilton Group. For

the past few years has been touring around New Zealand in his retro Chevy V8 ambulance

and catamaran, having just circumnavigated New Zealand by sea.

The most common problem with our attitude

“Attitude is a state rather than a trait…. You can change your state quite easily if you know how to do it”

The practice of healthy thinking

“In all the medical training that I’d done no one ever taught me that my thoughts control my emotions or create my emotions. So, you can’t have a feeling without having a thought first”

Healthy thinking

“That’s when I discovered CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and I discovered it was just the way I was looking at it, my attitude was wrong”

How do we measure wellness and the KYND app

“I’d see all these people coming into ED with strokes with extremely high blood pressure and people didn’t know they had high blood pressure or weren’t taking their pills”