Inspiring Keynote Speaker
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, she experienced workplace challenges inside large organizations. A burnout survivor, she creates solutions to help you and your organization thrive by demystifying how to banish burnout and boost productivity.
Caroline is no stranger to the stage and uses storytelling, data, and research in a witty and relatable style. She applies her personal experiences and insights to help others understand and overcome workplace overwhelm so they have the energy to do meaningful work and live a joyful life.
Keynotes & Workshops
Burnout to Brilliance:
Unleash Peak Performance, Profitability, and Wellbeing
Burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm are causing a human energy crisis in workplaces around the world. There is a revolving door of talent, and companies are struggling to recruit and retain employees to reach their business goals while losing trillions of dollars in increased healthcare costs and talent acquisition efforts. The World Health Organization has defined burnout as a workplace issue, not a self-care issue. It’s time to disrupt the status quo to design a resilient workplace that honors wellbeing and productivity because you can’t afford to be left behind.
Caroline will demystify how to banish burnout to create a healthy and profitable workplace to honor peak performance and wellbeing, so your business prospers, and your people can thrive. With actionable insight and resources, you will discover how to create workplace that is highly sought-after by employees and customers, so people can do their best work, and you can reach your industry goals. Everyone deserves to enjoy their career and love their life.
Audience Takeaways:
- Learn how to live a well-integrated life that boosts peak performance and wellbeing.
- Discover why burnout is not good for business and how to reverse the human energy crisis and boost profitability.
- Discern how the power of white space increases your energy and creative problem solving.
- Embrace experimentation to test drive practical solutions for banishing burnout.
- Rediscover the power of play as a path to connection and creativity.
- Reclaim your power and your energy to do your best work and live your best life.
Human-Centered Leadership: Ditch Command and Control for Collaboration and Care
In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, the traditional military-style command and control approach to leadership has become obsolete. It’s time to embrace a human-centered model that prioritizes collaboration and care.
In an environment rife with constant change, stress, and overwhelm, leaders face the dual challenge of engaging their teams while ensuring strategic alignment and profitability, in thriving and challenging times.
Transpersonal leadership empowers leaders to look beyond basic productivity metrics and to account for the emotional, psychological, and human dimensions of their teams. This approach recognizes that the health and well-being of employees directly influence organizational success.
Drawing from interviews with hundreds of leaders worldwide for her best-selling books and award-winning podcast, Caroline Dowd-Higgins illuminates the attributes that define exceptional leaders. Discover how to cultivate emotional intelligence, connection, purpose, and resilience to create a thriving culture that empowers individuals from entry-level to C-Suite.
Learn how to lead with humanity and foster a culture of wellbeing, enabling your people to do their best work, and live their best lives.
Audience Takeaways:
- Leadership at Every Level: Understand what it takes to lead effectively, from entry-level positions to the C-Suite, and learn how to exemplify impactful leadership for your peers and teams.
- Empowering Workplaces: Develop an understanding of transpersonal leadership and how to cultivate environments that prioritize wellbeing without compromising productivity.
- Fostering Innovation: Unlock the potential for creativity and innovative thinking within your teams by embracing a coaching mindset, regardless of your official title.
- Navigating Change with Confidence: Equip yourself with strategies to embrace change, advocate for radical candor, and establish a framework that sets your organization up for sustainable success as a transpersonal leader.
This keynote will equip attendees with the practical tools and insights needed to transform their approach to leadership, ensuring that both their people and their organizations thrive.
Recharge and Reignite Your Career to Thrive Where You Are Now
Gallup reports 70% of workers are not engaged or playing to their strengths, causing a revolving door of talent that destroys productivity, morale, and the bottom line. Take action to optimize and own your career now. Discovering the sweet spot where your strengths and your organization’s demands overlap requires a willingness to commit to growth and professional development.
Thrive Where You Are focuses on actionable tactics to empower you to own your career and prosper. Discover how to recharge, reignite, and reinvent your career in your current organization, so you can enjoy your career and love your life.
Audience Takeaways:
- Overcome your self-generated obstacles and move forward now.
- Recognize the unique challenges that come with each career stage and how to manage them.
- To thine own self be true…honor your values, interests, personality, and strengths.
- Find the sweet spot — where your passion and your organization’s needs converge.
- Refresh and reintroduce yourself to your colleagues to dust off your professional story and showcase your value-add.
- Leverage your influence—master strategies that will enable you to effect change and be seen and heard as you optimize your emotional intelligence.
- Polish your professional presence—to be considered a promotable player in your organization.
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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 34 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.
