Keynote Speaking
Lauren is the energetic and engaging storyteller your event needs. Let her inspire your group with one of her two signature keynote talks packed with strategies for both personal and professional growth.
Signature Keynote: Option 1
Slow Down Skills : The Fuel You Need to be Both Happy and High-Performing
Ask anyone how they’re doing, and the answer is often the same: “Busy.” In today’s fast-paced world, busyness has become a way of being, often at the expense of well-being. This relentless cycle fuels burnout, disengagement, and declining mental health, for individuals and entire organizations.
As a collective, we know this is a growing crisis, yet we find it hard to stop and slow down. Where traditional leadership development prioritizes productivity, decision-making, and business acumen, what we need to focus on is the development of three often overlooked and essential leadership skills that help us both live well and lead well: rest, reflection, and celebration.
Through compelling stories, research-backed insights, and practical strategies, Lauren will challenge leaders to think differently about their development, not just as a means to increase productivity, but as a way to thrive as whole, happy humans. Because when we prioritize well-being, success follows, not the other way around.
In her signature talk, she will:
Define rest, reflection, and celebration as essential leadership skills and explain their role in preventing burnout.
Help you integrate practices into daily routines to rest, recover and improve energy.
Encourage you to implement a structured reflection practice to develop stronger self-awareness and team alignment.
Empower you to build a habit of meaningful celebration to acknowledge progress and foster a culture of recognition.
This talk is great for:
Career-oriented leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs susceptible to burnout
Conferences that prioritize both personal and professional development
Organizations that want to develop leaders who are both happy and high performing
Early-career professionals and students preparing to enter the workforce
Signature Keynote: Option 2
Becoming a Whole Human Achiever : Sustainable Success from the Inside Out
For years, we’ve been taught that success comes from working hard, moving fast and doing more. But this approach has led to a burnout epidemic, with nearly half the world feeling overworked, unfulfilled, and disconnected from themselves.
The problem isn’t that we’re not working hard enough. It’s that we’re not doing the deep work to get to the root of our overworking. Real, lasting change happens when we shift not just the things around us, but the mindset within us.
In this keynote, Lauren shares her story learning about the power of identity-based habits and how we can redefine success in a way that sustains us. By making small, intentional shifts, we unlock the ability to not just achieve, but to feel good too.
If you’ve ever felt caught between ambition and well-being, you’re not alone. And you don’t have to choose. It’s time to stop chasing success at the cost of ourselves and start leading as whole, human achievers.
In her signature talk, she will:
Describe the impact of our busy culture on burnout and well-being.
Explain what is missing from traditional goal setting when we seek out growth.
Teach you the power of embracing a new identity to create real, lasting change.
Help you identify personal beliefs or narratives that may be reinforcing burnout or unsustainable achievement.
Teach you to leverage a personal framework for redefining success with a new identity.
This talk is great for:
Career-oriented leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs who want success without burnout
Conferences that prioritize both personal and professional development
Corporations that want to promote their leaders doing great work and taking care of themselves
Early-career professionals and students who want to establish healthy habits from the get-go
Instead of asking, ‘Have I worked hard enough to deserve rest?’, I’ve started asking, ‘Have I rested enough to do my most loving and meaningful work?’
— Nicola Jane Hobbs