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Banish Burnout and Reclaim Your Competitive Edge

Burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm are causing a human energy crisis in workplaces worldwide. According to the Health Work Campaign, there is a revolving door of talent, and organizations struggle to recruit and retain employees to reach their business goals while losing billions of dollars in increased healthcare costs and talent acquisition efforts. It’s time to disrupt the status quo!

Sought-after keynote speaker and thought leader Caroline Dowd-Higgins inspires organizations to engage and empower their people and teams to create healthy and sustainable workplaces that transform productivity and well-being so your business prospers and your people can thrive.

Caroline’s keynotes are practical, witty, and inspiring, offering immediately actionable insights into the transformative power of creating a workplace that honors well-being and productivity. Attendees will leave ready to implement new strategies to fully leverage their talent and their organization’s potential.

“Caroline’s keynote changed the conversation about how we address burnout in the workplace. She left our employees feeling inspired, energized, and engaged. If your organization is looking for a dynamic and thought-provoking speaker, Caroline Dowd-Higgins is the right decision!”

Kate Pangallo

Head of Global Talent Development

Elanco

“Caroline Dowd-Higgins has a dynamic message that plays successfully across all platforms. As careerists seek to improve their lives, they look for information that is inspiring, accessible, and easy to integrate. Dowd-Higgins produces content that truly satisfies those needs. Whether reading her posts over coffee, listening to her podcasts in the car, or watching a keynote at an event, her message fits easily into the ever-flowing rhythms and changing visions of our lives.”

Shelley Spencer

Vice President

Original Content WTTW/PBS Chicago

“Caroline is a gifted speaker and consistently receives the highest evaluations from our audiences at Invent Your Future events. From her gracious nature to her high-energy stage presence, she engages her audience from the get-go and provides real value with her thoroughly researched and relevant content. Her presentation skills top notch with great warmth, wit, and compassion.”

Ruth Stergiou

CEO

Invent Your Future Enterprises

“Without question, Caroline is one of the best speakers I have ever seen. She has the star power that draws her audience in and engages them deeply. As a former opera singer, Caroline knows how to deliver a performance, yet what sets her apart is the relatability she conveys while delivering a powerful message. On stage in front of crowds of all sizes, Caroline delivers and inspires. She does so with a perfect combination of confidence and warmth—delighting her audiences and leaving a lasting impression that resonates long after an event is over.”

Dana Cummings

Founder and Principal

DSC Consulting

Keynotes & Workshops

Caroline Dowd-Higgins Speaking to Audience

The Wellness Advantage: Do Your Best Work and Live Your Best Life

Burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm have created a human energy crisis at work, and your highest achievers are often the ones running closest to empty. The World Health Organization calls burnout a workplace issue, not a self-care issue, so the fix has to be built into how we work. Discover a practical triage model to banish burnout, cut the busywork, and create a healthy workplace where productivity and wellbeing go hand in hand, so your business prospers and your people thrive.

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The Capacity Advantage: Restoration Over Relief

Your highest performers are running closest to empty, and they’re the last ones to say so. Staffing pressure, regulatory complexity, and AI are raising the bar faster than most cultures can keep up, and engagement scores can’t tell you what to do on Monday morning. Discover the See It, Design It, Protect It framework and Achievement Intelligence, the human guardrail every organization needs, so you can trade temporary relief for real restoration and protect your stars before they break.

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The Joy Advantage: Play Your Way to Peak Performance

Gallup reports that only 20% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity. Most of us didn’t lose our spark all at once. We lost it one “I’ll have fun when…” at a time. Discover the business case for joy, plus practical tools built on playfulness, connection, and flow to reclaim focus, spark creativity, and bring more energy to work. Fun is what makes serious work sustainable.

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Meet Caroline International Keynote Speaker • Author • Media Host • Executive Coach

Caroline Dowd-Higgins has inspired thousands of people to optimize their strengths and tap their innovative spirit to create workplaces that are highly desirable by employees and customers so people can do their best work and reach business goals.

Leveraging her work as an executive leader, Caroline has experienced workplace challenges from the inside of large organizations for more than twenty years. A casualty of burnout, she creates solutions to help you, and your organization thrive. As a certified executive coach, a best-selling author, a celebrated talent development consultant, and an award-winning global podcast host, Caroline demystifies how to banish burnout and boost peak performance.

Using storytelling, data, and research in a witty and relatable style, Caroline applies her personal experiences and insights to help others understand and overcome workplace overwhelm so they can have the energy to do meaningful work and live joyful lives.

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Your Career Advantage: Overcome Challenges to Achieve a Rewarding Work Life

Whether you are a midcareer professional or a C-suite executive, navigating a career journey can be overwhelming with constant challenges and unexpected blind spots. Often living your best life becomes an afterthought. Discover the secrets to having a successful career AND enjoying a fulfilling life. With relatable examples, and actionable Pro Tips, Your Career Advantage reveals how to:

Advance your career and own your power
Deal with a difficult boss or colleague
Implement practical solutions for overwhelm, exhaustion, and burnout
Kick imposter syndrome in the ass and own your self-confidence for good

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Why Hire Caroline?

Leaders and Organizations work with Caroline due to her:

Focus on real results that matter
Deep expertise in change and transformation
Strategic & systems thinking mindset
Ability to challenge and confront with candor, empathy, and caring
Skill in moving past behaviors into deeper insights that change outcomes at the core
Way of bringing both head and heart to every engagement

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Your Working Life Podcast

With over 600 episodes, reaching 1+ million people in 72 countries, Your Working Life is an award-winning podcast series featuring candid interviews with luminaries in the career, leadership, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and wellness fields.

Activate Your
Wellness Advantage

Banish Burnout and Reclaim Your Competitive Edge

Keynotes & Workshops

The Wellness Advantage: Do Your Best Work and Live Your Best Life

The Capacity Advantage: Restoration Over Relief

The Joy Advantage: Play Your Way to Peak Performance

Meet Caroline International Keynote Speaker • Author • Media Host • Executive Coach

Your Career Advantage: Overcome Challenges to Achieve a Rewarding Work Life