Embrace Change and grow beyond yourself.
Change begins with a pause—a moment to reclaim agency over how we think, engage, and act. While we often believe productivity is about managing time, it's actually about mastering attention and focusing on what truly matters. At its core, business centers on building relationships, beginning with our relationship to ourselves.
Three essential, interconnected relationships shape our lives: with self, others, and work. To thrive, we must nurture all three.
When we harness the power of pausing, we transform culture together. What we care about ripples through our thoughts, engagement, and actions, revolutionizing relationships —starting with our self-awareness.
The Self-Care Mindset® helps individuals and teams flourish, especially during times of disruption and change. This mindset forms the foundation of a resilient culture, not through mere endurance, but through awareness, adaptability, and agility.
A purpose-driven culture is a care-driven culture—one built on shared values. In this culture, work/life quality becomes our way of working better together. CARE emerges as the new currency, driving peak performance, engagement, and sustainable success.
A high-performing culture is built on healthy interpersonal relationships, starting with the one we have with ourselves.
“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
KEYNOTE TOPICS that Turn stress into strength
01 POWER-PAUSING
YOUR HUMAN ADVANTAGE IN AN ACCELERATED WORLDIn a busy world where constant change is the new normal, it's easy to feel stuck and overwhelmed, constantly fixing the urgent at the expense of the important. While we can't stop being busy, we can be busy better by learning to navigate uncertainty and harness change without the stress that wears us out. Power-Pausing is how we can harness the power of attention and focus on what matters.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
Stop the mental hamster wheel and transform stress into growth.
Develop clarity, curiosity, and confidence to focus on what matters most.
Master the three stages of Power-Pausing to think, engage, and act with intention, care, and purpose.
Why Power-Pausing Matters:
Taps into 95% of our untapped potential by addressing unconscious behaviors.
Builds adaptability and agility — key to a resilient and evolutionary growth mindset.
Helps make better decisions faster by improving focus and productivity.
Power-Pausing isn’t about taking time off; it’s about stepping back strategically and being more intentional about how we use the power of our attention, focus, and energy.
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®
UNLOCK YOUR HUMAN ADVANTAGE: FROM SELF-AWARENESS TO CHANGE MASTERY AND COLLECTIVE SUCCESSIn a world transformed by technology and AI, our competitive advantage isn't about working faster or pushing harder—it's about unlocking our human advantage to work wiser. Through self-awareness, we unlock our ability to connect meaningfully, communicate effectively, and collaborate with purpose. This new approach to self-care isn't about recovery—it's about building a mindset that enhances how we work, engage, and grow together.
In this session, you'll discover how to:
Transform stress into strength, turn anxiety into purposeful action, and reframe obstacles into growth opportunities
Navigate uncertainty with emotional intelligence and mental agility.
Build stronger relationships and a culture of belonging and engagement.
Use the four questions of The Self-Care Mindset framework to make better decisions and work more effectively.
Why It Matters:
Self-awareness is the foundation for meaningful connection, communication, and collaboration.
Caring is hardwired into us — harnessing it helps us grow and adapt.
A Culture of Care® leads to higher performance and deeper connection, creating sustainable success through shared growth.
When we cultivate a self-care mindset, we not only transform and grow beyond ourselves—we create a ripple effect of positive change, fostering an environment where authentic connection, clear communication, and purposeful collaboration naturally flourish.
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®
TRANSFORMING CHANGE INTO COLLECTIVE STRENGTHLeading through change challenges our sense of agency. To grow stronger through adversity together, we must unlock our shared human advantage by cultivating leadership agility and meaningful human connection. These elements are essential for overcoming stress and conflict as a team. Instead of trying to control or predict change, leaders need to pause, listen deeply, and create a culture of possibility where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
Lead with clarity and confidence through change, transforming uncertainty into opportunity.
Build emotional agency using the C.A.R.E. framework (Curiosity, Acknowledgment, Respect, Empathy) to foster psychological safety and innovation.
Master the power of strategic pausing - knowing when to step back, reflect, and make purposeful decisions that strengthen team cohesion.
Apply practical tools and strategies immediately for sustainable success and lasting impact.
Why It Matters:
Change is inevitable — leadership agility helps unlock growth and innovation.
Human connection reduces stress, resolves conflict, and builds collective resilience.
A Culture of Care® drives stronger, more adaptable teams and better decision-making in uncertain times.
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®
BUILDING TOMORROW'S SUCCESS THROUGH COLLECTIVE GROWTH AND PURPOSEIn today's AI-driven world, our competitive advantage lies in unlocking our uniquely human capabilities, with care as our most powerful currency. When we embrace a collective "we" perspective, high performance emerges naturally through shared purpose and mutual support. Leadership isn't about taking responsibility for others — it's about empowering people to reclaim agency over their work and lives. A Culture of Care® harnesses our hardwired capacity for connection, communication, and collaboration with intention, care, and purpose, creating a supportive and growth-focused workplace where teams don't just adapt to change - they thrive through it together.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
Transform workplace culture by implementing Power-Pausing to enhance real-time decision-making and foster innovation through intentional reflection.
Foster psychological safety and team engagement by creating an environment where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to excel.
Master the C.A.R.E. framework (Curiosity, Acknowledgment, Respect, Empathy) to develop deeper listening skills and build a foundation for Confidence, Agility, Resilience, and Empowerment.
Navigate change with curiosity, clarity, and confidence through meaningful collaboration and measurable outcomes.
Why It Matters:
In an AI-enhanced future, human connection and emotional intelligence are key differentiators.
A Culture of Care® drives innovation, adaptability, and sustainable performance.
When people feel valued and connected, they become active catalysts for innovation, driving collective growth and sustainable success.
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?
“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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