Ellen will transform the way you think about burnout.
Expect a high-energy, relatable speaker who will challenge your view of the status quo while also making you laugh. Audiences walk away inspired and prepared with an actionable plan for how to set and keep boundaries in a world that doesn’t always want us to.
“I tend to doubt the prevalence of burnout, and Ellen made me think otherwise. I admire a talk that can change my opinion and with which I mentally debate and otherwise engage for hours and days following, as was the case with this one.”
—Conference AttendeeBurnout isn’t a self-care problem. It’s a strategic liability.
At this point, we all could probably stand up and give a keynote about how our hyper-productive workplace culture is bad for us. Yet burnout rates are rising (while workplace engagement is plummeting).
Ellen will challenge your audience to think beyond the way we think we “have” to work and focus on keeping boundaries that protect our health. Using her Honest Capacity Audit, she teaches attendees how to exit the productivity validation loop and start taking small (but impactful) steps towards keeping yourself—and your team—healthy.
Because burnout isn’t just hard for the employee.
It’s also hard on your bottom line.
With Ellen as your keynote speaker, attendees will walk away feeling positive about how to create a healthier workplace where employees are engaged, productive, and working in a sustainable way.
“Ellen delivered one of the most compelling keynote talks on burnout I’ve experienced. While many presentations on work/life balance offer familiar advice, she provided a practical framework I was able to apply immediately. I was personally nearing burnout at the time, and her insights gave me both clarity and the confidence to take control of it.”
—Lana M. Fontenot, MBA, CFRE, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement & External Relations, Executive Director, Foundation for SoLAcc
Learn to Unlearn Toxic Productivity and Improve Your Workplace Culture
Ellen helps high-performing teams unlearn the toxic habits of “Always On” culture to build excellence that actually lasts.
Why this isn’t “another burnout talk:”
Systemic, Not Individual. Ellen talks about how high-achievers are rewarded for working at a pace that burns them out, and how to break that cycle.
Experience and Evidence-Based: As a seasoned leader, accredited executive coach, and podcast host who’s interviewed dozens of thought leaders, Ellen draws on her own personal experience with burnout as well as data and a solution grounded in neuroscience and practical framework, not just anecdotes.
Tactical: Attendees leave with tools like The Honest Capacity Audit, a five-step process to reclaim their bandwidth.
“Ellen was a fantastic speaker who delivered actionable steps that I will bring to my personal and professional practice.”
“I almost skipped this session because I was so exhausted from staying up late to catch up on emails. I’m so grateful that I didn’t - I’m a very new VP and feel overwhelmed, unprepared, fearful. I have done everything I’m “supposed” to do but it’s impossible to keep up. I try to shield my staff from that as best I can, but I ignore my own advice. It was a great session, and I’m very grateful you included this. I needed to hear it!”
What to Expect When You Hire Me
I burned out in a pretty spectacular way a few years ago, and I only realized it when I couldn’t stop sobbing during a performance of Beetlejuice the Musical.
Turns out when we suppress our stress, it comes out at the most unexpected times.
I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I did, yet I know from my coaching work and years in a high-stress field that a lot of us are leaning on really unhealthy work habits because it’s what we think we have to do.
We’re not burning out because we’re lazy. We’re not burning out because we’re “too sensitive.” We’re burning out because the way we learned to work is unsustainable, and yet when we try to change, our workplaces (and life in general) tell us we can’t slow down.
My goal is to help audiences understand why we need to change the way we think about how we work, how our individual beliefs and lived experience influence our need to achieve at any cost, and give you a practical and actionable framework to put into place right away.
Hire me to speak if you want to be entertained, want to laugh, and want to be challenged to think about things in a new (and maybe not yet comfortable way).
Turns out that theatre degree was useful after all.