Caroline Dowd-Higgins: Executive Coach
Caroline Dowd-Higgins is a leading expert on banishing burnout, boosting productivity, and helping organizations reignite human energy in the workplace.
- Highlights:
- Renowned thought leader on burnout prevention and workplace well-being.
- Expert in resilience, engagement, and leadership development.
- Dynamic, high-energy keynote speaker and executive coach.
- Helps organizations reduce turnover and healthcare costs through employee vitality programs.
- Formats:
Keynote speaker (45–60 minutes), interactive workshops, executive coaching sessions.
- Audiences:
Corporate leaders, HR professionals, managers, and teams seeking to improve engagement, well-being, and productivity.
- Outcomes:
- Recognize the root causes and warning signs of burnout before they spread.
- Learn actionable strategies to build resilience and boost energy across teams.
- Create a culture that supports employee well-being, purpose, and peak performance.
- Travels from: Bloomington, IN
- **Fee range: On Request
Keynote Topics
Burnout to Brilliance:
Unleash Peak Performance, Profitability, and Wellbeing
Caroline will demystify how to banish burnout to create a healthy and profitable workplace to honor peak performance and wellbeing, so your business prospers, and your people can thrive. With actionable insight and resources, you will discover how to create workplace that is highly sought-after by employees and customers, so people can do their best work, and you can reach your industry goals. Everyone deserves to enjoy their career and love their life.
- Learn how to live a well-integrated life that boosts peak performance and wellbeing.
- Discover why burnout is not good for business and how to reverse the human energy crisis and boost profitability.
- Discern how the power of white space increases your energy and creative problem solving.
- Embrace experimentation to test drive practical solutions for banishing burnout.
- Rediscover the power of play as a path to connection and creativity.
- Reclaim your power and your energy to do your best work and live your best life.
Human-Centered Leadership:
Ditch Command and Control for Collaboration and Care
In an environment rife with constant change, stress, and overwhelm, leaders face the dual challenge of engaging their teams while ensuring strategic alignment and profitability, in thriving and challenging times.
Transpersonal leadership empowers leaders to look beyond basic productivity metrics and to account for the emotional, psychological, and human dimensions of their teams. This approach recognizes that the health and well-being of employees directly influence organizational success.
Drawing from interviews with hundreds of leaders worldwide for her best-selling books and award-winning podcast, Caroline Dowd-Higgins illuminates the attributes that define exceptional leaders. Discover how to cultivate emotional intelligence, connection, purpose, and resilience to create a thriving culture that empowers individuals from entry-level to C-Suite.
Learn how to lead with humanity and foster a culture of wellbeing, enabling your people to do their best work, and live their best lives.
- Leadership at Every Level: Understand what it takes to lead effectively, from entry-level positions to the C-Suite, and learn how to exemplify impactful leadership for your peers and teams.
- Empowering Workplaces: Develop an understanding of transpersonal leadership and how to cultivate environments that prioritize wellbeing without compromising productivity.
- Fostering Innovation: Unlock the potential for creativity and innovative thinking within your teams by embracing a coaching mindset, regardless of your official title.
- Navigating Change with Confidence: Equip yourself with strategies to embrace change, advocate for radical candor, and establish a framework that sets your organization up for sustainable success as a transpersonal leader.
This keynote will equip attendees with the practical tools and insights needed to transform their approach to leadership, ensuring that both their people and their organizations thrive.
Recharge and Reignite Your Career to Thrive Where You Are Now
Gallup reports 70% of workers are not engaged or playing to their strengths, causing a revolving door of talent that destroys productivity, morale, and the bottom line. Take action to optimize and own your career now. Discovering the sweet spot where your strengths and your organization’s demands overlap requires a willingness to commit to growth and professional development.
Thrive Where You Are focuses on actionable tactics to empower you to own your career and prosper. Discover how to recharge, reignite, and reinvent your career in your current organization, so you can enjoy your career and love your life.
Audience Takeaways:
- Overcome your self-generated obstacles and move forward now.
- Recognize the unique challenges that come with each career stage and how to manage them.
- To thine own self be true…honor your values, interests, personality, and strengths.
- Find the sweet spot — where your passion and your organization’s needs converge.
- Refresh and reintroduce yourself to your colleagues to dust off your professional story and showcase your value-add.
- Leverage your influence—master strategies that will enable you to effect change and be seen and heard as you optimize your emotional intelligence.
- Polish your professional presence—to be considered a promotable player in your organization.
Talent Short Bio
Caroline Dowd-Higgins is an award-winning speaker, executive coach, and thought leader who inspires professionals and organizations to thrive in today’s volatile and fast-changing workplace. Known for her contagious energy and uplifting presence, she tackles one of the most pressing challenges of modern business a growing human energy crisis. Burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement are depleting organizations of their most valuable resource: people.
Caroline empowers audiences with science-based strategies to combat burnout, strengthen resilience, and cultivate sustainable success. Her keynotes blend research, relatable storytelling, and actionable tools to help leaders and employees perform at their best without sacrificing well-being. Through her dynamic delivery and practical insights, she equips teams to boost productivity, retention, and overall happiness at work.
Read Full Bio
Caroline Dowd-Higgins is a sought after public speaker, a best-selling author, an executive coach, and international media personality. Her books, podcasts, videos and blogs are read by millions of working women and men.
Caroline has inspired a wide range of organizations and their employees to create highly desirable workplaces where they can optimize their strengths, tap their innovative spirit, do their best work, and reach business goals.
Leveraging her work as an executive leader in large organizations for 20+ years, Caroline shares her experiences and insights using storytelling, data, and research in a witty and relatable style.
In her transformation keynotes and workshops, Caroline Dowd-Higgins demystifies how to banish burnout and boost productivity so your employees have the energy to do meaningful work and live a joyful life.
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Talent Videos
Caroline Dowd-Higgins Speaker Reel
In this 4-minute, 48-second highlight reel, Caroline Dowd-Higgins showcases her dynamic keynote style and science-based strategies for tackling burnout, boosting resilience, and energizing today’s workplace.
Read Summary & Key Moments
Summary
The 2024 speaker reel captures Caroline Dowd-Higgins’ vibrant presence on stage and her mission to help organizations overcome burnout and reclaim workplace energy. Opening with moments from her live keynotes and workshops, Caroline immediately connects with audiences through humor, authenticity, and actionable science. She sets the stage by describing the global “human energy crisis” affecting companies everywhere—where burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement are draining productivity, retention, and morale.
Drawing on data and leadership research, Caroline explains how stress and overwhelm have become barriers to creativity and collaboration. Her approach focuses on proactive solutions: cultivating self-awareness, building emotional stamina, and redefining success through well-being. She illustrates that when leaders model balance and purpose, teams perform with renewed motivation and focus.
The reel intersperses powerful sound bites, audience engagement moments, and testimonials that highlight Caroline’s effectiveness as both a thought leader and motivator. She offers clear, actionable takeaways on energy management, resilience, and meaningful work—always emphasizing that productivity is not about working harder but about working smarter and with intention.
As the reel progresses, Caroline’s contagious enthusiasm reinforces her reputation as an expert in professional reinvention and workplace well-being. Whether speaking to executives or frontline employees, she helps people rediscover fulfillment and joy in their work. The video closes with Caroline’s signature call to action: that sustainable success begins with caring for human energy first.
Key Moments
00:31–01:15 – Identifying the “human energy crisis” impacting modern work.
01:16–02:00 – Caroline on the cost of burnout and disengagement.
02:01–03:00 – Strategies for resilience, energy renewal, and balance.
03:01–03:45 – Audience reactions and key takeaways from live sessions.
03:46–04:30 – Caroline’s message on redefining productivity through well-being.
04:31–04:48 – Closing montage: impact moments and contact visuals.
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