Lacey Artemis

Lacey Artemis aka "The Sensory Nerd" - Keynote Speaker, Sensory Ergonomics Consultant, & Workspace Strategist

Every organization wants a high-performing team, but few realize their physical environment is actively draining the biological energy required to get there. While traditional workplace strategies treat inclusion as an HR compliance checklist, Lacey targets the root of human performance: the nervous system, and the environment that surrounds it.

As a pioneer of Sensory Ergonomics, she proves that environmental, visual, acoustic, and physiological stress impact every human body and mind - and that designing spaces that restore rather than drain energy is the ultimate untapped competitive advantage.

Known as the "Sensory Nerd", Lacey overthinks the sensory science so you don't have to. Because who wants to have to understand what a Sabin or a Troland is? Lacey does! (And yes, those are real units of sensory measurement.)

She brings an unusually rich, multidisciplinary lens to spatial design and human cognition. Her career path isn't a straight line; it’s an integrated engine.

Grounded in the precision of accounting, she understands fiscal realities, operational ROI, and corporate bottom lines. With years of experience in media production, she reads physical and temporal environments through the precise mechanics of sound, lighting, and visual sequencing. Her time spent in improvisation, comedy, and storytelling classes sharpened her skill at engaging strangers and giving them memorable words. Her deep fascination with linguistics and etymology gives her the ability to dissect complex scientific jargon and translate it into vivid, accessible mental models that stick. She learned Ancient Greek to be able to understand (and explain) what something like xeno-osmopathy is.

Underpinning all of this is her lived experience navigating world spaces as a neurodivergent individual. Lacey knows firsthand what sensory contrast collapse feels like. Not as a theoretical case study, but as something she experiences frequently across offices, events, restaurants, stores, and hospitals alike.

This unique vantage point allowed her to connect the dots that traditional architects and ergonomists missed: that the invisible friction of flickering light drivers, traffic jams in the human speech intelligibility zone, and chaotic sensory contrast are systematically burning out modern talent.

Lacey elevates the conversation beyond band-aid accommodations or generic wellness rooms. She equips corporate real estate leaders, HR executives, and design strategists with a systematic framework to audit and recalibrate their environments. By combining hard data, psychophysics, and practical design strategy, she demonstrates how practical adjustments in lighting spectrums, acoustics, and spatial flow yield massive compounding returns in focus, emotional regulation, and retention.

On stage, Lacey delivers high-energy, evidence-based keynotes that leave audiences seeing (and hearing) their everyday environments in a completely new light. Whether speaking to Fortune 500 leadership, workplace strategists, or global design summits, she bridges the gap between deep biological reality and commercial performance.

Lacey doesn't just teach organizations how to accommodate their people - she leads them toward the blueprint to build spaces people don’t need to recover from.