KEYNOTE TOPICS that harness the power of care
01 THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE
Power-Pausing™ — The Key to Modern Leadership that Unlocks Clarity, Capacity, and Conscious Connection
In an always-on world, the most valuable resource isn’t time — it’s attention. This flagship keynote introduces Power-Pausing™ as the missing ingredient in modern leadership: the gateway to clarity in complexity, presence in pressure, and purpose in performance.
Grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, and systems thinking, Jeanette Bronée reveals how intentional pauses rewire how we lead — not by doing more, but by becoming more conscious in how we think, decide, and connect.
Because in an AI world, the most powerful tool is still a human one. And to access it, we must shift from always-on to wisely aware — one pause at a time.
Participants will learn how to:
Clarify decisions by cutting through noise with mental agility
Expand capacity by creating space instead of stretching limits
Foster connection by leading with presence, trust, and care
This keynote doesn’t just inspire — it activates. It offers immediate, practical tools to shift from urgency to intentionality and lays the foundation for deeper cultural transformation.
This session is the ideal entry point into Jeanette’s suite of programs on resilience, relational intelligence, self-leadership, and care-based culture.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Implement easy-to-use tools to cut through overwhelm and reclaim your attention and focus.
Ask better questions to tap into your greatest human drive: what you care about, and unlock your innate growth mindset.
Employ a simple framework for the connection, communication, and collaboration that drives engagement.
02 Resilience Without the Hustle
The Self-Care Mindset® as a Catalyst for Growth, Not Just Recovery
We’ve been taught that resilience means pushing through. That success requires sacrifice. That burnout is just part of the job. But what if we’ve misunderstood resilience entirely?
In this keynote, Jeanette Bronée introduces The Self-Care Mindset® as a paradigm shift — where care becomes a daily practice of awareness, alignment, and human sustainability. Rooted in behavioral science, emotional intelligence, and real-world leadership experience, this session offers a new definition of resilience: not bouncing back, but growing forward with rhythm and intention.
Because when we stop treating self-care as a reward for exhaustion, and start integrating it as a leadership mindset, we don’t just survive change — we transform through it.
Participants will learn how to:
Reframe resilience as a practice of clarity and personal agency
Use everyday micro-pausing to recalibrate emotional and mental capacity
Build team culture around shared care, not isolated recovery
Shift from burnout cycles to regenerative performance rhythms
This session is ideal for leaders and teams who are ready to build a workplace where growth is sustainable — and where care is a catalyst, not a compromise.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Understand how our three main relationships (self, others, work) are interconnected and what their significance is in the workplace.
Identify what you need to perform at your best, thereby increasing productivity, creativity, and success.
Discover how to use the CARE framework’s four questions to help you harness change and grow stronger together through adversity.
Learn easy-to-use tools and strategies that can immediately be applied to unlock and harness the most essential resource we possess: our humanity.
03 Lead Like a Human
Care-Driven Leadership® for a New Era of Trust and Transformation
The future of leadership isn’t about charisma or control. It’s about connection. In today’s complex, hybrid, and high-pressure work environments, leaders must do more than manage — they must model what it means to lead with care, clarity, and courage.
This keynote introduces the Care-Driven Leadership® framework — a transformative approach that equips leaders to navigate uncertainty by grounding themselves and their teams in presence, empathy, and shared purpose. Drawing from neuroscience, systems thinking, and decades of leadership development work, this session turns “soft skills” into strategic assets.
Because when leaders learn to care — for themselves, their people, and their impact — they don’t just build better teams. They build trust, loyalty, and a culture where everyone thrives.
Participants will learn how to:
Lead from empathy without losing accountability
Cultivate trust through emotional agency and relational intelligence
Shift from reactive leadership to rhythm-based decision-making
Foster clarity and courage in moments of tension or ambiguity
This session is designed for leaders at every level who are ready to move beyond performance management — and into people-first leadership that drives long-term transformation.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Cultivate a work environment where people engage, innovate, and grow through adversity together.
Engage in meaningful conversations that foster a team environment where we can harness our shared human advantage.
Learn how to implement strategies that support people growing stronger through adversity together with awareness, adaptability, agility, and fun.
04 Workplaces Worth Belonging To
Culture of Care® as the Foundation for Performance, Trust, and Meaning
We don’t just want to be included. We want to belong — to feel valued, supported, and part of something that matters. Yet too often, workplace culture is built around output, rather than connection.
This keynote introduces the Culture of Care® framework as a practical and transformative approach to building environments where people — and performance — can thrive. Grounded in systems thinking and human-centered leadership, this session helps organizations move beyond fragmented engagement efforts and toward cultural coherence rooted in trust and shared purpose.
Because when care becomes the operating system — not just a program — we unlock collective resilience, psychological safety, and the full human potential of our teams.
Participants will learn how to:
Identify the disconnects that erode trust and belonging
Foster psychological safety as a performance strategy
Embed care into rituals, rhythms, and relationships at work
Build team cultures that prioritize contribution over compliance
This session is ideal for organizations ready to align performance with people — and make care the cultural infrastructure that holds everything together.
05 Multi-Part Learning Series
or Leadership Retreat Integration
These sessions can be woven into a transformative learning arc that builds capacity over time. Whether delivered across a leadership development program, integrated into an offsite retreat, or adapted into a series of executive workshops, Jeanette’s keynotes and frameworks work together to create deep, lasting change.
Each session builds on the previous by addressing different dimensions of leadership:
Begin with clarity and capacity through The Human Advantage and Power-Pausing™
Deepen with relational trust and resilience in Lead Like a Human and The Self-Care Mindset®
Expand collective intelligence and belonging through Culture of Care® and The Strategy of Listening
Apply through change and complexity in Leading Change from the Inside Out and The Wisdom Reset
This approach moves beyond inspiration into implementation — creating leaders and cultures that can meet the moment with humanity, wisdom, and care.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Engage in meaningful conversations that cultivate connection and build stronger relationships.
Foster an agile and accountable team environment.
Harness simple strategies to align your company values with outcomes and impact.
Keynote Format:
30-45–60 minutes (90-minute option available)
Slides and presentations are customized to your company values and conference theme, and address your people's daily challenges and opportunities. They are delivered in an engaging, empowering "Yes-I-can" style that gives audiences practical tools for immediate implementation.
06 MICRO SESSIONS
UNSTRESS
From Pressure to Power - Creating an Agile, Resilient WorkplaceIn this open, conversational session, we'll tackle the real challenges of a post-pandemic work culture — from navigating the stress of change and cultivating work-life quality to supporting mental health and resilience. No slides, just real talk.
In this session, we'll explore:
How to thrive in a world where work and life boundaries blur.
Strategies for strengthening emotional well-being and mental health.
Developing a culture that values and supports every team member.
Building personal and organizational resilience for lasting growth.
Goal:
To equip leaders and teams with practical tools to balance work and life, cultivate emotional and mental well-being, and build a resilient, connected work culture.
HUMANITY AT WORK
Redefining Success and Building a Thriving Organizational CultureThis conversational keynote is an open session designed to address your team's real challenges in today's work culture. It's not a presentation — it's a sit-down where you and your team can ask the questions that matter most.
In this session, we'll explore:
How can we navigate the increasing demands of work and life when the day has no clear beginning or end?
Strategies to support emotional well-being and mental health.
Building a Culture of Care® where people feel valued and supported.
Tools to foster resilience and sustainable growth through collective well-being.
Goal:
To create a healthier, more connected, agile, and resilient work culture — together.
Micro-session Format:
Micro-sessions and conversational keynotes are open sessions in which we will address any of these questions and as many as we can.
45–90 minutes
Open mic, facilitated chat, or panel discussion — your choice
No slides — just real conversations and actionable insights
Redefining success and an inclusive culture by rethinking self-care and cultivating better communication.
KEYNOTE IDEAL AUDIENCE:
Executives
Leaders and Team Leaders
Teams
Creatives and creative teams.
Small companies and entrepreneurs that rely heavily on every team-member being at their best.
Entrepreneurs who are running themselves into the ground, to get their company off the ground.
Employees working in high performance companies, that need the tools to give work their best instead of their all.
PROGRAMS ARE PERFECT FOR:
Teams that struggle with performance burn-out, poor productivity and engagement, who want to grow resilient in a healthy way.
Leaders and managers who want to support a culture that is high performing, while still being mindful of keeping a healthy and happy work-force.
Leaders who want to foster a culture that is connected, curious and engaged and therefore fuels courage, creativity and innovation.
YOU WILL LEAVE WITH:
An understanding of how to avoid burnout and increase performance, productivity, attention and focus, while nourishing an environment that fosters engagement, innovation, and creativity.
Awareness of why changing the mindset that keeps us stuck in poor performance, stress and burnout is the foundation for growth.
Tools to implement and create immediate change to the structure of how they work.
Specific action-steps for team leaders to create a culture change that will help prevent burnout, engage employees, increase productivity and lower talent-loss and absenteeism.
Keynotes and training programs help leaders and teams learn the self-skills to prevent burnout so they can reach a higher level of personal and professional performance, innovation, growth. Companies get the framework for creating a culture that’s more inclusive, engaging, and care-driven to cultivate better connection, communication, and collaboration. The focus is to leave with tools to harness the human advantage by rethinking the process of achieving results, creating impact and sustainable success, without sacrificing our health and personal lives.
Employees have found they are more productive because they know how to manage their energy, focus, and attention and also gain more work-satisfaction because they have agency over their own employee experience.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Leaders have found they are better able to support their teams in growth and innovation through better communication and collaboration.
It is my focus to provide an experience that’s packed with accessible and inspirational tools that spark motivation, feed our hunger for success, and fuel performance, without stress and burnout. The goal is to nourish your work-culture so that everyone can work healthy and finish the day happy, with energy to spare.
Let's create a culture where everyone is thriving. Of course you want that. The question is not if, the question is when?
Transform Work Through the Power of Care
In our fast-paced world, transformation begins with a pause. Power-Pausing™ is more than just taking a break—it's a revolutionary practice that helps us reclaim agency over how we think, engage, and act. While conventional wisdom suggests productivity is about managing time, true performance emerges from mastering our attention and aligning with what truly matters. By stepping off the mental hamster wheel, we access tools that transform our thoughts, engagement, and actions into purposeful intention, meaningful connections, and impactful results.
The future of work demands a profound shift in how we view business success. At its heart, business thrives on relationships—starting with our relationship to ourselves. By nurturing the three vital relationships that shape our lives—with self, others, and work—we unlock unprecedented potential for growth and innovation.
When we embrace the transformative power of pausing, we create ripples of positive change throughout our culture. Our conscious care influences every thought, interaction, and decision, revolutionizing workplace relationships from the foundation of enhanced self-awareness.
The Self-Care Mindset® empowers individuals and teams to excel, particularly during times of disruption and change. This approach builds resilient cultures not through mere persistence, but through heightened awareness, dynamic adaptability, and strategic agility.
In this new paradigm, purpose and care become inseparable drivers of success. When we prioritize work/life quality as our way of working, CARE becomes the catalyst for peak performance, deep engagement, and sustainable excellence—creating a Culture of Care® where people belong and work better together.
When we build a high-performing culture on the foundation of healthy relationships—starting with self-care—we create an unstoppable force for positive transformation.
“We worked together with Jeanette to develop a session that was tailored to the needs of our organization, and she customized her speech to hit the mark. The session started a conversation that we are still having, and the power of pausing is doing the rounds…
It was a real pleasure to work with Jeanette - smooth, engaging, and inspiring!.”
Petra Wander
Senior Manager Employee Engagement, Siemens
“I have received so far have indicated much gratitude for the opportunity to attend, the ability to put what they learned during your presentation into their daily practice right away, the desire to use the information to take care of themselves and their teams and that they are reading (and some almost finished ) your book.”
Alyce Sherwood MACCC/SLP
Chief of Adult Program
The Center for Discovery
“Jeanette Bronée has a generous spirit. She did the pre-work to ensure that the rigorous and wise content of her book The Self Care Mindset was customized and nuanced to the audience.
She has wisdom, experience, and pragmatic tools, and she ensured the audience understood the neuroscience that everyone could use throughout their day.
The audience was stimulated, grateful, and inspired by her presentation.”
Evelyn Rodstein, Organizational Consultant
“Jeanette’s message is so important and timely. Our staff, everyone from creatives to finance and young to old across genders, all felt inspired to take better care of themselves which will help them to be more effective and productive both personally and professionally. It’s a win win. Jeanette was also a joy to work while preparing for the keynote and I highly recommend her to other groups.”
Ali Pulver
Chairwomen of Omniwomen NY
(a 5000+ member corporate organization)
“If you are looking to bring a fresh perspective to fueling your team and leaders, then you’ve found the right person in Jeanette.”
Mike Ganino
Culture + Employee Engagement Keynote Speaker
Author of Company Culture for Dummies
“Jeanette has chaired our Wellbeing @ Work Conferences in London & New York and I can honestly say she was an excellent facilitator who brought a great warmth & knowledge to our event. Her preparation prior to the event and delivery on the day was impeccable and Jeanette was a joy to work with throughout the whole process. I would highly recommend Jeanette if you are looking for a knowledgeable, warm and professional person.”
Chris Cummings
CEO, Sonas Events
“She was amazing - best so far. I was crying within 5 minutes in a good way. Thank you for doing this. I shared her name with my daughter. She is getting her masters in mental health and wellness. I'm sure everyone got a lot out of it.”
Tedi Granke
Christmas Tree Shops
“For any organization or individual looking to enhance and explore their relationship with self-care and be empowered to reduce burnout and stress, Jeanette is an inspiring, motivating, and credible person to go to! She knows her stuff and exudes passion, opening the door of possibilities to those she touches. Her keynote delivered to over 900 associates at various levels was cited as being one of the best ever, inspiring, and just the motivation that was needed! I was proud to have her speak with our organization and happy to see the insights, conversations, and impact she sparked to create lasting change.”
Adrienne Peseller
Director, Leadership Development & Engagement
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