THE CRISIS YOUR AUDIENCE IS FACING

Burnout is no longer an individual issue — it is a leadership and organizational crisis.

Across healthcare, business, and entrepreneurial environments, leaders are being asked to produce more with fewer resources, tighter margins, and constant change. At the same time, employee exhaustion, disengagement, and turnover continue to rise — despite increased investment in wellness initiatives.

The data tells the story:

• 77% of employees report experiencing burnout at their current job
• Over 60% of healthcare professionals report chronic exhaustion or emotional fatigue
• Burnout-related turnover costs organizations 30–50% of an employee’s annual salary
• In healthcare, replacing one clinician can exceed $250,000 in lost productivity and replacement costs

The problem isn’t a lack of policies, goals, or programs.
It’s that most systems are strong on demand and weak on restoration.

THE REAL RISK

When leaders and organizations operate without addressing internal regulation and emotional recovery, performance eventually degrades — even among top talent.

Unchecked burnout leads to:

• Decision fatigue and poor judgment
• Disengagement and quiet quitting
• Cultural erosion and loss of trust
• Increased turnover among high performers

This is not because people don’t care.
It’s because care has been treated as optional instead of operational.

The real risk isn’t slowing down.
The real risk is building growth on people who are already depleted.

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE

In this transformative keynote, Elizabeth Meigs, Transformational Coach and resilience strategist, delivers a grounded, evidence-informed message for leaders navigating growth, pressure, and responsibility.

Drawing from over 13 years of experience working in high-pressure environments, personal burnout recovery, and faith-informed resilience practices, Elizabeth introduces two complementary frameworks:

• The Pathway to PEACE™ Method, which supports emotional regulation, mental clarity, and internal stability
• The Roadmap to Resilience™ Framework, which strengthens identity, purpose, and inner capacity under pressure

Rather than offering surface-level wellness tactics, this keynote equips leaders with a care-centered leadership model that improves how people respond to stress, change, and demand — without sacrificing performance.

Care is reframed not as compassion alone, but as infrastructure for sustainable results.

AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS

Participants will walk away with:

• A clear understanding of why burnout persists despite traditional wellness efforts
• Practical insight into how emotional regulation and internal stability impact performance and decision-making
• A leadership framework that strengthens engagement, trust, and retention
• Language and perspective to integrate care into culture without lowering standards
• A renewed view of leadership that protects people while sustaining results

THIS TALK IS IDEAL FOR

Organizations and audiences seeking:

• A leadership-forward approach to burnout, engagement, and retention
• Practical strategies for sustaining performance during growth, transition, or uncertainty
• A keynote that balances accountability, results, and human well-being
• A speaker who blends professional credibility, lived experience, and faith-informed insight
• A message that positions care as a strategic advantage, not a soft add-on

Closing Truth

You can set goals, policies, and expectations — but without care, they collapse under pressure.
When leaders build resilience into the culture, organizations don’t just perform better — they last longer.

Helping Students Shift from Limitation to Leadership

Format: Interactive workshop
Ideal Audience: College & High School students, student organizations, leadership programs, disability services, DEI initiatives

Workshop Overview

The Breaking Labels, Building Leaders: An Empowerment Workshop is a transformational experience designed to help students break free from limiting labels and step fully into their strength, confidence, and potential.

This session challenges the narrative that impairments, setbacks, or differences define a person’s future. Instead, students learn how mindset, self-awareness, and resilience turn challenges into catalysts for growth.

Through real-world stories, interactive reflection, and practical tools, participants are guided to move from focusing on what they lack to recognizing what they carry—capability, purpose, and power.

This is not a motivational talk that fades by the next class period. It’s a mindset shift students take with them.

Key Outcomes for Participants

Students leave this workshop with:

• A renewed sense of confidence and self-worth
• Practical tools to reframe challenges and manage adversity
• Greater self-awareness around strengths, passions, and values
• Improved communication and empathy skills
• A stronger commitment to inclusion—of themselves and others

Core Topics Covered

1. Mindset Mastery: From Limitation to Possibility

Students learn how to:

• Identify and challenge limiting beliefs and negative self-talk
• Understand the difference between fixed mindset and growth mindset
• Recognize personal strengths as assets—not exceptions
• Shift internal narratives from “what’s wrong with me” to “what’s possible for me”

Tools include:
Strengths exploration, values clarification, guided reflection, and goal-setting exercises.

2. Self-Discovery & Identity Development

Participants are guided through exercises that help them:

• Identify strengths, passions, and core values
• Connect who they are with where they’re going
• Build clarity around purpose, direction, and decision-making
• Stop measuring themselves against others and start owning their path

This segment helps students anchor their confidence internally—not in grades, performance, or comparison.

3. Building Inclusive & Empowering Communities

Students explore how empowerment extends beyond the individual by learning to:

• Cultivate empathy and understanding for diverse experiences
• Appreciate the strengths and perspectives of others
• Collaborate effectively by leveraging differences, not avoiding them
• Contribute to a campus culture where everyone belongs and thrives

4. Cultivating Resilience Through Adversity

This section equips students with real-life coping strategies, including:

• Simple mindfulness and grounding techniques for stress and overwhelm
• Reflective journaling to process challenges and track growth
• Positive affirmation practices that reinforce identity and confidence
• Group discussion that normalizes struggle while highlighting resilience

Students leave knowing adversity is not a dead end—it’s a training ground.

Interactive Elements

Depending on time and group size, the workshop may include:

• Guided reflection exercises
• Small-group discussion
• Strengths and values mapping
• Vision or goal-setting prompts
• Optional journaling or affirmation practices

Each activity is designed to be practical, inclusive, and immediately applicable to student life.

Why This Workshop Matters

Many students—both in high school and college—carry unseen pressure: academic stress, identity questions, disability-related challenges, trauma, and the weight of expectations placed on them by others and themselves.

What they often lack isn’t ability.
It’s perspective.

The Breaking Labels, Building Leaders: An Empowerment Workshop gives students a framework to:

• Reclaim confidence
• Reframe challenges
• Strengthen resilience
• And step forward empowered—not defined by what they’ve faced

Booking & Customization

This workshop can be customized for:

• Orientation programs
• Leadership development
• Disability services
• Mental health or wellness initiatives
• DEI and student success programming