Keynotes

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:

• Identify how rapid growth, complexity, and competing priorities can impact collaboration, decision-making, and team effectiveness

• Practice techniques that help teams pause, stay connected, and engage one another with greater clarity and intention

• 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

Crazy Times, Connected Teams

60-minute virtual keynote for corporate events and associations

Typically when people express fear about burnout, it comes with concerns about the mental health of the individual, perhaps worries about their ability to make good decisions, or stay alert while doing hazardous work. This is all very valid, but it is not the whole picture. We now know from brain scans that burnout dramatically reduces our ability to take in new information. Most people can see how this might impact our ability to innovate or solve complex problems. But usually they don’t realize that it also has a significant impact on our ability to build trust with people who may seem “different” from us. Trust is what allows clients to be honest with their concerns and direct with their needs. It is what gives team members the psychological safety needed to speak up about safety concerns on-site.

In this session, Emily weaves together storytelling, hard data and neuroscience to impart clarity and a sense of urgency as to why we can’t just leave trust up to chance in these stressful times. Participants are shown a key shift in thinking to apply when they manage stressful and almost continuous change.

Participants will walk away with:

• A new way of thinking about inclusion and belonging
• A shared understanding of psychological safety that challenges outdated ideas of DEI work 
• Inclusive habits and practice that are easy to apply but have a big impact