In today's dynamic world of work, supportive cultures of care have become integral to success. Without the right balance of compassion and accountability, leaders risk losing their best people.

In this impactful keynote, Dr. Andrea shares a powerful framework for navigating challenge and change with the highest levels of emotional intelligence, so we can help those we lead do the same.

The result? More effective leaders, happier employees, and more cohesive, connected, and collaborative teams.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Struggling to navigate challenge and change.
• Feeling disconnected from their work or team.
• Seeking stronger relationships with people at work.
• Achieving goals at the expense of themselves.
• Working to supercharge how they collaborate.

Your audience will leave with:

• An expanded capacity to self-advocate while empowering others.
• Tools to manage stress, combat overwhelm, and lead effectively.
• Recommendations for how to say hard things with heart.
• Practical strategies to lead in effective, emotionally intelligent ways.

Mistakes can feel like monumental setbacks. But what if our failures, flaws, and foibles held the key to unlocking our true potential?

In this empowering talk, Dr. Andrea explores the transformative power of radical self-compassion in the workplace and beyond. By reframing our worst fears and failures into opportunities to shine, she explores how we can find resilience and renewal in the face of life’s inevitable messes and mishaps.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Seeking to excel while maintaining their wellbeing.
• Experiencing challenges, setbacks, or insecurities.
• Aiming to boost their emotional resilience.
• Intent on unlocking their full potential.
• Looking to support and uplift others.

Your audience will leave with:

• A deep understanding of the importance of self-compassion in work, life, and leadership.
• Practical strategies for finding grit, grace, and resilience in the face of setbacks.
• The ability to transform failures into opportunities for growth.

How can leaders maintain a high level of caring connection while dexterously guiding people through difficult, new, complex, unpopular, or otherwise stress-inducing circumstances?

In this keynote geared toward audiences facing uncertainty and change, Dr. Andrea shares stories, science, and practical tools for practicing compassionate agility – defined as “the ability to prioritize empathic connection and support, while deftly and boldly navigating challenge and change.”

Your audience will walk away enriched with practical wisdom, inspiring examples, and actionable strategies for doing and saying hard things in connected, genuine, and human ways.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Facing significant change and/or challenge.
• Desiring boosted emotional resilience, boundaries, and self-compassion.
• Looking for ways to navigate decisions, changes, and initiatives with boldness, efficiency, confidence, and timeliness while at the same time making people feel seen, safe, included, and supported.

Your audience will leave with: 

• An expanded capacity to self-support and maintain inward boundaries while supporting and empowering others through difficulty.
• Tools to manage stress, and stay grounded yet nimble amid uncertainty.
• Fresh insights into the crucial roles of candor, clarity, and consistency in leadership - with tips for how to practice these.
• Excellent strategies for maintaining inward equanimity in the face of emotional struggle – whether one’s own, another’s, or both.
• Strategies for decision-making that’s both strategically inclusive and boldly decisive.