Speaking & Presentations
Speaking and Presentations
Most presentations on trauma, burnout, and mental health leave audiences with the same generic advice they’ve already heard: practice self-care, set boundaries, take breaks. Your people nod politely, grab a coffee, and nothing changes.
My presentations do something different. I make the invisible visible — naming the specific patterns that driven, ambitious professionals live inside every day but have never had language for.
I bring over 15,000 clinical hours specializing in relational trauma in driven and ambitious populations, lived experience building and selling a multimillion-dollar therapy practice, and the kind of kitchen-table delivery that makes complex neuroscience land in the body, not just the brain.
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Formats & Audiences
How I work with your organization
45–90 minutes
Keynote Presentations
High-impact, story-driven talks designed for professional conferences, corporate leadership events, and organizational retreats. I blend clinical depth with lived experience to deliver something your audience hasn’t heard before.
60–90 minutes
Grand Rounds & Hospital Presentations
Evidence-based presentations tailored for physicians, nurses, and healthcare teams on vicarious trauma, burnout, and the hidden costs of empathy-intensive work in clinical settings.
Half-day / Full-day
Workshops & Interactive Sessions
Deeper dives with space for reflection, discussion, and practical application. Ideal for clinical teams, leadership cohorts, and professional development programs that want lasting behavior change.
Varies
Podcasts, Panels & Media
Available as a featured guest, panelist, or expert commentator on relational trauma, perfectionism, workaholism, burnout, and the psychology of high achievement.
Signature Topics
What I speak about
Every presentation is tailored to your audience. These are the themes I return to most — the ones that make rooms go quiet, then stay long after the session ends.
- 01The Hidden Architecture of High Achievement: How Relational Trauma Fuels — and Fractures — SuccessTech companies, finance, law firms, leadership summits
- 02When Your Best People Are Running on Survival Fuel: Recognizing Burnout Before You Lose ThemCorporate HR, executive retreats, organizational wellness
- 03Vicarious Trauma and Provider Burnout: What Your Clinicians Won’t Tell YouGrand rounds, hospital systems, medical conferences
- 04Why Brilliant Women Burn Out: The Neuroscience of Perfectionism, Workaholism, and Nervous System AdaptationWomen’s leadership summits, health conferences, universities
- 05From Performing Competence to Embodying It: Leadership After Relational TraumaExecutive coaching programs, C-suite retreats, professional development
- 06The Founder’s Nervous System: Why Entrepreneurs Recreate Their Trauma in Their BusinessFounder retreats, venture capital summits, entrepreneurship programs
- 07Repairing the Foundation: What Relational Trauma Recovery Actually Looks LikeClinical conferences, counseling associations, CE workshops
- 08The Psychological Cost of Caregiving: Trauma, Ambition, and Impossible Standards in Healthcare and LawLaw firm wellness, hospital leadership, professional associations
- 09Teaching the Relational Trauma Recovery Framework: A Clinician’s Guide to Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment PlanningCE workshops, clinical training programs, counseling associations, graduate programs
Book Annie to Speak
Interested in having me present at your organization?
I tailor every presentation to your audience — their professional context, their specific challenges, and the outcomes that matter most to your event. Whether you’re planning a hospital grand rounds, a corporate leadership event, a professional conference, or a community workshop, I’d love to discuss how we can create something that resonates long after the room empties.
Speaking fees vary by event type, audience size, and format.
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