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Dr. Chloe Carmichael, PhD

Clinical psychologist and bestselling author helping leaders harness anxiety and speak with confidence.

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Dr. Chloe was phenomenal! The talk provided tools we can apply in our everyday lives. Dr. Chloe created a safe environment where colleagues felt like they could ask questions without hesitation. Everyone enjoyed the discussion and we would bring her back again in the future!

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Why book Dr. Chloe Carmichael for your next event

  • USA Today bestselling author who equips high performers to transform anxiety into focus, drive, and sustainable success.
  • Trusted media voice featured on ABC Nightline, Inside Edition, VH1, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times.
  • Delivers tailored keynotes and workshops for organizations like Baker McKenzie, Columbia University, and YPO.

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Turn anxiety into performance and courage into clear communication

Dr. Chloe Carmichael is an internationally known speaker, clinical psychologist, and USA Today bestselling author who helps ambitious professionals thrive under pressure. With a warm yet direct style, she makes complex psychological concepts practical, relatable, and immediately useful. Whether addressing anxiety, leadership, or free speech in the workplace, Dr. Chloe equips audiences with tools they can apply the very next day. Her keynotes combine science, strategy, and real-world insight, delivered with clarity, confidence, and a grounded presence that resonates across industries.

 

Dr. Chloe Carmichael – Clinical Psychologist and Bestselling Author

Dr. Chloe Carmichael is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist and USA Today bestselling author known for her ability to translate psychological science into practical strategies for high-performing individuals and organizations. She connects easily with diverse audiences while addressing complex, high-stakes topics such as anxiety, resilience, leadership, and communication around sensitive issues.

Her work has been featured in national media including ABC Nightline, Inside Edition, VH1, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. She also serves on the advisory board of Women’s Health magazine, reflecting her respected voice in the broader cultural conversation around mental health and performance.

With a style that is both warm and direct, Dr. Chloe creates an atmosphere where audiences feel understood, challenged, and empowered, all at the same time.

 

Nervous Energy and High Performance

Dr. Chloe is the author of Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety (Macmillan), a book that reframes anxiety as a strength when managed strategically. Instead of viewing anxiety as a weakness to eliminate, she shows high achievers how to channel it into focus, motivation, and sustainable success.

The book received endorsements from Deepak Chopra and praise from Jim McCann, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS, underscoring its relevance for both personal growth and business leadership. In her keynote programs, Dr. Chloe builds on these principles, offering actionable techniques that help professionals avoid burnout while maintaining peak performance.

Audiences leave with:

  • Clear frameworks for transforming anxiety into productive energy

  • Tools to improve focus and decision-making under pressure

  • Practical methods to sustain performance without sacrificing well-being

Her background as a yoga teacher turned psychologist adds a unique dimension to her approach. She blends grounded presence with evidence-based psychology, helping leaders regulate stress while staying sharp and strategic.

 

Can I Say That? – Fearless and Intelligent Communication

In her newest book, Can I Say That? Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly (Skyhorse), Dr. Chloe explores the mental-health costs of self-censorship and the growing anxiety many professionals experience around difficult conversations. She provides practical tools for navigating sensitive topics with confidence and emotional intelligence.

The book has been praised by Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. Daniel Amen, and other respected voices in psychology, media, and culture. In her talks, Dr. Chloe expands on these themes, guiding audiences through strategies that foster clarity, nuance, and thoughtful dialogue.

This topic is especially powerful for organizations seeking to strengthen leadership communication, encourage open dialogue, and build cultures where employees feel both safe and capable of speaking thoughtfully. Dr. Chloe addresses these themes with balance, acknowledging complexity while offering concrete, usable solutions.

 

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Dr. Chloe’s keynotes and workshops, delivered virtually and in person, have earned repeat invitations and enthusiastic reviews from organizations such as Baker McKenzie, WikiHow, NerdWallet, Young Presidents’ Organization, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y. She is equally effective in large keynote settings, interactive workshops, and panel discussions.

A skilled listener and strategic thinker, Dr. Chloe works closely with event organizers to tailor each presentation for maximum relevance and impact. She takes the time to understand the audience’s goals, challenges, and industry context, ensuring that every session feels customized rather than generic.

Her academic credentials further reinforce her authority. Dr. Chloe graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from Columbia University and holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Long Island University. She has taught psychology at the university level and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

Event planners value her professionalism, clarity, and collaborative approach. Audiences appreciate her ability to tackle sensitive subjects without sensationalism, bringing nuance, evidence, and practical insight into every conversation.

When you book Dr. Chloe Carmichael for your event, you bring in a speaker who combines intellectual depth with real-world relevance. She equips leaders and teams to harness anxiety, communicate fearlessly, and perform at a high level, without losing perspective or balance.

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Dr. Chloe was phenomenal! The talk provided tools we can apply in our everyday lives. Dr. Chloe created a safe environment where colleagues felt like they could ask questions without hesitation. Everyone enjoyed the discussion and we would bring her back again in the future!

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Dr. Chloe was a very engaging speaker. Her advice was easily understandable, memorable, and practical. Would definitely invite her back again!

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"We value the annual Goal Attainment workshops that Dr. Carmichael has offered. The workshops are high quality, high energy, and have a wonderful reputation in our office.”

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“Dr. Chloe is a favorite at The 92nd Street Y. She has been very well received as a speaker multiple events both online reaching around the globe, and in-person in New York City. We have recommended her to others due to the positive feedback we received. She is extremely professional, easy to work with, and offers a fresh and engaging perspective!”

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Keynotes

Keynote by Dr. Chloe Carmichael:

Mindful + Sustainable Goal Attainment

Most driven, intelligent people are at least reasonably good at achieving goals. However, sometimes they can get so busy that they lose touch with the emotions around their goals. This can lead to procrastination, burnout, or a lack of fulfillment. This workshop guides attendees to choose a goal and break it down into actionable steps and timelines. Next, attendees will be guided to go beyond traditional goal attainment approaches through exercises to increase emotional awareness and then plan targeted, customized self-care behaviors along their goal path. Layering in the key component of emotional awareness and then planning helpful self-care behaviors not only increases productivity and longevity, it also boosts fulfillment and facilitates deeper connections with others.

Takeaways:

  • Attendees will have an action plan for a personal or professional goal with specific objectives to advance them towards their goal
  • Attendees will have a healthy awareness of both the positive and negative emotions related to the individual objectives and the goal overall
  • Attendees will have personalized, healthy self-care plans around their individual objectives and goals in order to A) reduce their odds of procrastinating or burnout; and B) increase their sense of personal fulfillment as they pursue their goal

Qualified to speak because: Dr. Chloe is an expert clinical psychologist on the topics of motivation, success, and goal attainment. Her background as a yoga teacher and her interest in wellness combine with her psychology expertise to help people reach goals while emphasizing a sense of individual fulfillment and personal meaning around goals.

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Keynote by Dr. Chloe Carmichael:

How to Turn Your Anxiety into a Superpower

This signature talk teaches attendees how to unlock the healthy psychological benefits of anxiety, such as stimulating preparation behaviors, or other constructive self-care behaviors. It offers practical tools based on Dr. Chloe's recent book, Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety, to help attendees experience a powerful perspective-shift around the topic of anxiety. This upbeat and uplifting talk can be customized to include ample opportunities for deep discussion and personal examples volunteered by attendees, or it can be kept on a more information-based level with customized examples pre-created and personalized for your audience by Dr. Chloe, depending on the focus of the event. This helpful talk strikes a healthy balance between A) compassionately recognizing the challenges of anxiety, and B) inspiring and guiding attendees to be proactive around challenges while taking good care of themselves.

Takeaways:

  • Attendees will learn how to differentiate between anxiety that calls for “letting go and relaxing” versus anxiety that is actually best alleviated by increasing our mental focus and becoming proactiv
  • Attendees will learn up to nine practical tips to channel anxiety effectively in order to simultaneously increase both productivity, fulfillment, and self-care
  • Attendees will learn how to recast anxiety as a potential source of constructive energy and as a driver of self-care, rather than as something to be feared
  • Qualified to speak because: Dr. Chloe is an expert clinical psychologist who literally wrote the book on this topic; her book was endorsed by Deepak Chopra as well as Jim McCann, the founder of 1800-Flowers.
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Keynote by Dr. Chloe Carmichael:

Stress Management for Leaders

Leaders are typically willing and able to continuously take on new responsibilities, and they are often ready to embrace situations that take them out of their comfort zone. This can be a strength, but it can also become a vulnerability in terms of stress. This workshop helps to reframe stress as a potentially healthy opportunity for growth, while also offering practical ways to reduce or manage stress in the moment. This talk also provides strategies to put boundaries around stress and become intentional about which stressors we're willing to take on as challenges, and which ones we're better off delegating or eliminating altogether. This workshop encompasses both personal and professional stressors, and of course can be customized to be specific to the unique life situations of individual audiences.

  • Attendees will learn techniques to relax the body and mind to combat the unhealthy effects of stress
  • Attendees will learn strategies to proactively manage sources of stress and prioritize stressors that are growth opportunities while decreasing investment in stressors that don't actually offer a good ROI
  • Attendees will explore their relationship with stress and learn to reframe it as part of a healthy growth pattern, thereby reducing "stress about stress"
  • This talk can also be tweaked for audiences who don’t specifically identify as leaders, with the title, Stress Management to Live Your Best Life

Qualified to speak because: Dr. Chloe is an expert clinical psychologist and former yoga teacher, so she understands stress management from multiple perspectives. Also, as a 5-year member of Entrepreneurs Organization and employer of a full clinical and administrative staff, she is a credible and relatable source for business professionals.

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Keynote by Dr. Chloe Carmichael:

A Breath of Fresh Air, with Dr. Chloe Carmichael

We all know that this is a good time to increase our self care, but sometimes it's hard to know where to turn for fresh, high quality self care tools. Dr. Chloe will share a few of her favorite breathing techniques. Many people think of breathing techniques as promoting relaxation, but did you know they can also improve focus and increase energy? Dr Chloe will review a sampler of three different breathing techniques to use in different situations depending on your goals.

The techniques will include optional meditative components as well.

We will learn:

  • The Three-Part Breath: A foundational mindfulness technique, as well as a proven way to increase oxygen levels and promote overall wellness.
  • The Cocoon Breath: The perfect way to help yourself relax after a long day, or create a sense of boundaries when feeling overwhelmed.
  • The Breath of Joy: An invigorating breath to increase energy and vigor.

Whether you're a total novice or a wellness aficionado, you will learn techniques and perspectives that can be used in everyday life or in a personal daily routine of quiet reflection. This workshop is designed to support your community in a time of increased stress, or to be a helpful addition to their toolbox even in times of ease. Dr. Chloe was a yoga and meditation teacher prior to becoming a clinical psychologist, and she is on the Advisory Board of Women's Health Magazine published by Hearst. Her recent book was endorsed by Deepak Chopra, MD. In other words, she absolutely loves wellness and her enthusiasm is contagious.

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How To Turn Your Anxiety Into A Superpower

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