Give your audience more than inspiration. Book Emily for a keynote that sparks meaningful conversations, builds lasting trust, and gives your team practical tools they’ll use long after the event ends.
Interactive, research-backed keynotes for corporate events, associations, and nonprofits.
Working Better Together: Reaching Our Goals by Leaning on Each Other
75-minute keynote for corporate events and associations
As you take on your ambitious 2026 goals, how you collaborate, support one another, and embody shared company values will be central to your success. This session is designed to deepen a sense of connection and strengthen the relationships that allow every employee to contribute fully and meaningfully to your shared mission.
In this interactive, motivational and valuable keynote, Emily Braucher will guide participants through practical tools that improve communication, build trust, and navigate periods of rapid growth, change, and complexity with greater awareness and empathy. As teams scale and work moves quickly, it is common for even well-intentioned colleagues to rely on assumptions, lose perspective, or default to familiar habits. This session focuses on building the awareness and skills that help teams slow down when it matters, respond more intentionally, and create conditions where trust and collaboration remain strong, even as demands increase.
Participants will leave with practical strategies they can apply throughout the year to support inclusive, resilient, and high-performing teamwork.
Learning Outcomes:
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Identify how rapid growth, complexity, and competing priorities can impact collaboration, decision-making, and team effectiveness
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Practice techniques that help teams pause, stay connected, and engage one another with greater clarity and intention
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Apply insights from the session to strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration in support of your 2026 goals
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“Emily was a hit! She grabbed our attention and inspired us
to remove distraction and connect with each offer.”
Techstars
Our Brains and the Challenge of Engaging New Communities
60- to 90-minute program for non-profit and associations
In today’s complex work environment, trust isn’t a “soft skill”—it’s a business imperative. Whether your teams are onboarding new clients, navigating cross-functional collaborations, or engaging diverse stakeholders, trust is the foundation of high performance. Yet even the most well-intentioned leaders and professionals can unknowingly undermine trust when under pressure or outside their comfort zone.
In this energizing keynote, Emily Braucher unpacks the brain’s instinctive responses to discomfort and how they can sabotage connection and inclusion. Through powerful storytelling and practical insight, she equips audiences to recognize those patterns and override them. Participants leave with neuroscience-backed tools to strengthen relationships, enhance collaboration, and lead more inclusively.
Program Take-Aways:
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How the brain’s stress responses impact connection, trust, and decision-making
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Greater awareness of cultural dynamics in building authentic relationships
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New insights into inclusive communication and psychological safety
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Two practical tools to build trust and stay engaged during moments of tension or uncertainty
“Emily’s nuanced understanding of cultures was
very impressive, as well as truly helpful!”
Ying Zhao
