KEYNOTE TOPICS that harness the power of care
01 POWER-PAUSING
Unlocking our Human Advantage in the Digital AgeIn today's accelerated world, we're all racing to keep up. But what if success isn't measured by speed—but by wisdom? While we can't stop change, we can transform how we navigate it. Power-Pausing™ helps you tap into your uniquely human advantage to connect, communicate, and collaborate with curiosity and care—transforming chaos into clarity, stress into strength, and harnessing insight for better decision-making.
The three stages of Power-Pausing™ combine neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and behavioral science to unlock your full potential:
Think: Train your mind to master both focused attention and 360-degree perspective. Clear mental clutter to unlock optimal clarity, free yourself from uncertainty, and access your full cognitive capacity.
Engage: Transform reactive patterns into thoughtful responses. Build self-mastery through awareness and nurture curiosity through active listening and forward-thinking questions as you forge meaningful connections amid change.
Act: With an agile mindset, transform uncertainty into opportunities for innovation. Build the confidence to lead and collaborate effectively, driving positive outcomes.
Power-Pausing™ builds essential workplace skills: adaptability, emotional intelligence, and strategic decision-making. This straightforward yet powerful tool unlocks our human potential and elevates both personal and team performance through enhanced awareness, adaptability, and agility.
This isn't about slowing down—it's about moving forward with purpose. Through micro-pausing, we transform pressure into power and create an environment where innovation and human connection naturally thrive.
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 THE SELF-CARE MINDSET®
From Managing Change to Mastering Growth from with Confidence and PurposeIn a world transformed by AI and overwhelming information, we often lose touch with our inner wisdom—the understanding that change isn't our enemy but rather our greatest catalyst for growth.
The Self-Care Mindset® revolutionizes our approach to personal growth by cultivating an evolutionary mindset. This dynamic method transforms how we navigate change by harnessing the powerful C.A.R.E. framework to sharpen mental clarity and unlock our highest potential.
The C.A.R.E. framework consists of four key pillars that guide how we navigate change and growth:
Communication: From inner critic to inner coach, building a deeper dialogue with ourselves to enhance curiosity, clarity, and confidence.
Awareness: Understanding how to use emotions as information to enhance adaptability and agility, reading the cues to strengthen both inner and outer awareness.
Responsibility: Taking ownership of our choices to build resilience and optimize problem-solving.
Empowerment: Through self-expression, we grow our evolutionary mindset to navigate change with confidence and purpose, fostering powerful relationships of respect at work.
By asking powerful questions and drawing on insights from neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and human behavior, you'll cultivate an agile growth mindset that combines high performance with deep humanity. This creates a ripple effect that strengthens relationships—starting with the one we have with ourselves—and builds an organizational culture driven by purposeful, intentional action.
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 CARE-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP®
LEAD FORWARD: Cultivating High-Functioning Teams in an Age of ChangeWith technology accelerating every aspect of our lives, our competitive advantage lies not in how fast we move but in how wisely we pause, listen, and ask better questions. Today's leaders must create environments that foster trust and innovation to unlock a new workplace paradigm—one that leads with both vision and heart to harness the power of our shared human intelligence and collective wisdom.
This keynote demonstrates how human connections provide a genuine competitive advantage in today's world.
Through Power-Pausing™ and the CARE framework, leaders can unlock their teams' full potential by cultivating strong relationships and channeling uncertainty into creativity and collective strength.
The C.A.R.E. framework provides the structure for these essential leadership principles, creating a resilient, change-ready culture where teams thrive:
Curiosity: Foster open dialogue and innovative thinking
Acknowledgment: Validate diverse perspectives and contributions
Respect: Build trust through inclusive leadership
Empathy: Strengthen emotional intelligence and team cohesion.
The essential question becomes: How do we harness our collective wisdom to transform constant change into a catalyst for meaningful innovation? We must cultivate an innovative mindset for today, tomorrow, and beyond—one where change and growth become the fuel that keeps our culture thriving.
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 A CULTURE OF CARE®
Care as Strategy: The New Competitive Advantage In today's AI-driven world, true competitive advantage lies in harnessing our uniquely human capabilities to connect, communicate, and collaborate toward shared goals.
A Culture of Care® transforms how teams work together by placing intentional care at the heart of organizational success. This approach reshapes workplace dynamics into an environment where innovation, adaptability, and sustainable performance flourish.
Core Concept:Power-Pausing™ helps teams reclaim agency over how they think, engage, and act through intentional individual and team reflection. It transforms workplace dynamics and strengthens relationships, starting with the one we have with ourselves.
C.A.R.E. Framework Components for cultivating a collective growth mindset:
Curiosity
Acknowledgment
Respect
Empathy
This framework creates the foundation for mastering change through Confidence, Agility, Resilience, and Empowerment.
With heightened awareness and strategic thinking, teams can transform challenges into opportunities.
When care drives organizational culture, it creates a powerful ripple effect: teams innovate more effectively and perform at their collective best—revolutionizing how they achieve excellence together.
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.
05 MICRO SESSIONS
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.
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.
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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