Award-winning keynote speaker and burnout expert helping high performers succeed at work while building a life they truly love.
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Top rated!5 of 5
Rachel lights up the stage and our events. Everyone shines brighter as a result, too. She’s phenomenal.
Robert Goldberg
Universal
Rachel Sheerin is an award-winning keynote speaker, emcee, and burnout expert dedicated to helping people love both their work and their lives. Drawing on experience from both sales and operations, she understands the pressures that leaders and teams face when performance expectations are high. After experiencing burnout herself, Rachel committed to understanding why high performers struggle with chronic stress and how organizations can prevent it. Today she blends behavioral science, research, and powerful personal stories to deliver engaging keynotes that inspire audiences to increase their impact while building sustainable success.
Rachel Sheerin is an award-winning keynote speaker, emcee, and burnout expert known for energizing audiences with practical insights and powerful storytelling. Her mission is simple: help people love their work while building a life they genuinely enjoy.
Rachel brings a rare perspective to the stage. Her professional experience spans both sides of business — sales and operations. This combination allows her to understand the goals, pressures, and challenges faced by leaders and teams working to drive performance while maintaining a healthy culture.
Organizations book Rachel Sheerin to help their people succeed at a high level without sacrificing wellbeing. Her keynotes offer a compelling blend of research, behavioral science, and real-world business experience, making her presentations both engaging and actionable.
Rachel’s career has always been driven by ambition and results. She built multi-million-dollar sales teams focused on growing profits while creating workplaces where people genuinely wanted to succeed. At the same time, she worked closely with operations teams that needed stronger collaboration with their sales counterparts.
This experience gave her deep insight into how different departments function and how organizations can work better together.
Yet like many high achievers, Rachel eventually experienced burnout herself. The drive that fueled her success also led to chronic stress and overwhelm.
Instead of ignoring the experience, she chose to study it.
Long before burnout became a popular workplace topic, Rachel began researching why high performers are particularly vulnerable to stress and exhaustion. She wanted to understand what individuals and organizations can do to prevent burnout before it begins.
That journey became the foundation for her work today.
Rachel is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst, giving her a scientific lens through which she explores performance, motivation, and stress. By combining behavioral insights with burnout research, she creates keynote presentations grounded in facts, science, and authentic experience.
Her talks go beyond surface-level motivation. Rachel helps audiences understand:
Why high performers are especially prone to burnout
How behavior patterns influence stress and productivity
What leaders can do to support thriving teams
How individuals can pursue success without sacrificing their wellbeing
Through engaging stories and relatable examples, Rachel translates complex research into ideas that people can immediately apply in their work and lives.
Rachel Sheerin is known for delivering high-impact presentations that educate, energize, and inspire action. Her style is dynamic, approachable, and deeply engaging, making her a popular choice for conferences, corporate events, leadership programs, and association meetings.
Her impressive client list includes organizations such as The Ritz Carlton, WAL-MART, Freddie Mac, Berkshire Hathaway, SHRM, and numerous national associations and franchise organizations.
Rachel’s work has taken her to audiences across the United States and internationally, from Seattle to Spain. Wherever she speaks, her goal remains the same: equip high performers with the tools they need to level up their success and increase their impact without burning out.
What makes Rachel particularly relevant for today’s organizations is her understanding of the modern workplace. Leaders and teams are facing unprecedented expectations, constant change, and increasing pressure to perform.
Rachel addresses these realities head-on. She helps audiences recognize the patterns that lead to overwhelm while showing them how to build healthier, more productive ways of working.
Participants leave her sessions feeling both inspired and equipped with practical insights they can apply immediately.
Beyond the keynote stage, Rachel continues to play an active role in the events and business community. She serves as the Director of Global Awards for the Association for Women in Events, supporting recognition and leadership development across the industry.
Rachel is also an angel investor who focuses her support on women-owned businesses, helping entrepreneurs grow and succeed.
When she’s not speaking on stages around the world, Rachel is often connecting with attendees, celebrating event experiences, and building relationships that extend long after the conference ends.
Rachel Sheerin’s presentations resonate because they combine credibility, vulnerability, and actionable ideas. She understands the challenges high performers face because she has lived them herself.
Her keynotes help audiences rethink success, approach performance with renewed clarity, and create work environments where both people and results can thrive.
Organizations that book Rachel Sheerin gain a speaker who brings energy, insight, and real-world experience to the stage — leaving audiences inspired to perform at their best while building lives they truly love.
5 of 5
Rachel lights up the stage and our events. Everyone shines brighter as a result, too. She’s phenomenal.
Robert Goldberg Universal
5 of 5
Thank you so much for breathing so much life into our Americas keynote presentation! We loved your energy and professionalism – you truly made it a “live” experience for our audience, and we received great feedback specifically about you. It was a pleasure working with you, and I sincerely hope we get to collaborate again in the future.
Claudia Blackwell Global Brand & Marketing Operations for Hexagon AI
5 of 5
Rachel exceeded expectations for our event! She asked great questions prior to the event and incorporated all our points with enthusiasm and high energy! It's rare that a speaker can convey exactly the intention that we are going for with insight and warmth… Loved the visuals/setup - felt like we were together having a conversation
Leigh Tidwell AFR
5 of 5
Rachel's incredible work and dedication made our event an outstanding success. Her contributions (prep work, last minute additions, thorough communications, attention to detail, always smiling, listening to our feedback, handling our secret announcement, etc.) have taken it to a whole new level and helped us have the best event we've ever had!
Daneille McCarthy WAL-MART
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The Ritz-Carlton hotel company is the benchmark for excellence and Rachel was the perfect fit for us. Her energy and message resonated with us all. The results are miraculous, the energy contagious and the results long lasting. One of the best speakers we’ve ever had.
James Filtz Director of Meetings and Special Events, The Ritz Carlton New Orleans
Keynote by speaker Rachel Sheerin:
Keynote by speaker Rachel Sheerin:
Keynote by speaker Rachel Sheerin:
Rachel Sheerin as Emcee and Event Host:
“Your Event BFF”
“Onstage and Offstage Event Energizer”
“Behind-the-Scenes Lifesaver”
“Happiness Generator”
“Attendee Connector”
“The Emcee Your Attendees Will Love to Laugh With”
Call her what you want… Rachel Sheerin delivers.
As a former meeting and events professional, Rachel pairs her knowledge of event management with irresistible energy as your event emcee and host. From ensuring everyone feels included to navigating the energy and flow of the agenda and topics presented, Rachel becomes everyone's friend and guide - the voice of care, confidence, and connection on stage, making sure your biggest event goals are met - and emergencies are handled with ease.
Your event would benefit from Rachel as your emcee if you:
You want attendees engaged throughout the entire event
Your event would benefit from additional energy, engagement, and fun
You want to enhance the learning journey and amplify connection among attendees
Your speakers and executives deserve professional introductions
You want to keep your agenda flowing on time
You want to create smooth transitions and bridge any gaps between various segments of your conference
You are looking for ways to enhance your sponsorship offerings, highlight exhibitors, or give VIPs special treatment
You want your audience to recharge and reconnect during your event, leaving burnout behind and ready to conquer their biggest goals
DID YOU KNOW?
As a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst, Rachel understands body language of audiences on a whole new level - making it easier for her to connect and engage.
Watch Rachel Sheerin in action!
Watch Rachel Sheerin in action
