Keynotes & Workshops
Stacey's sessions are available as keynotes, workshops, and half-day facilitated experiences — built for leadership summits, executive offsites, industry conferences, and association events serving C-suite and senior leaders.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
"You're Not Burned Out. You're Misaligned."
Why leaders keep succeeding at the wrong game — and what it costs before they finally admit it.
WHY STACEY BUILT THIS TALK:
She has sat across the table from some of the most accomplished leaders she has ever met — and watched them describe their lives with the same word: empty. Not burned out. Not broken. Just quietly succeeding at something they stopped believing in. This talk exists because that conversation happens behind closed doors far more than anyone admits — and because naming it out loud is the first thing that actually changes it.
High performers are trained to push through. To optimize. To keep moving. But there’s a difference between being tired and being misaligned — and most leaders don’t realize which one they’re dealing with until the cost is already high. In this session, Stacey reframes the burnout conversation entirely. This isn’t about doing less. It’s about finally doing the right things — in the right direction, for the right reasons.
She introduces a diagnostic framework for identifying where high achievement and personal alignment have quietly disconnected, and gives leaders the language and tools to close that gap — without blowing up everything they’ve built.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
- A new distinction between burnout and misalignment — and why the difference changes everything
- A diagnostic tool for identifying where their energy is leaking and why
- Language to have the honest conversation they’ve been avoiding — with themselves and their teams
- A clear, personal commitment to one aligned shift they’re ready to make immediately
Available as: Keynote (45–60 min) | Workshop (90 min) | Half-Day Facilitated Session Ideal for: Leadership summits, executive offsites, women’s leadership conferences, association events
KEYNOTE 2
"The Disruption Design Triangle"
The three things every high-performing organization needs to create clarity, capacity, and alignment — and why most leaders are solving for the wrong one.
WHY STACEY BUILT THIS TALK
After two decades inside one of the most persistently disrupted industries in America, Stacey stopped believing disruption was the problem. She’d watched organizations throw money at resilience training, leadership development, and culture initiatives — and still watch their best people burn out and their results plateau. The pattern was always the same: leaders were solving for the wrong thing. This framework is what she wish she’d had in year one.
Most organizations responding to disruption are treating it like a weather event — something to survive until conditions improve. They’re not. Disruption is the operating condition now, and the organizations that thrive aren’t the ones with the most resilient people. They’re the ones that were deliberately designed for it.
In this session, Stacey introduces the Disruption Design Triangle — a practical framework built around three elements every high-performing organization needs: Clarity, Capacity, and Alignment. When one is off, the whole system strains. When all three are aligned, teams don’t just survive disruption — they build for it. Attendees leave with a concrete diagnostic, three questions to apply immediately, and a new way of thinking about what organizational health actually looks like.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH
- The Disruption Design Triangle framework — Clarity, Capacity, and Alignment defined and applied
- A diagnostic for identifying which of the three is creating drag in their organization right now
- Practical tools for redesigning how their teams make decisions under pressure
- A shift from reactive leadership to intentional organizational design
Available as: Keynote (45–60 min) | Workshop (90 min) | Half-Day Facilitated Session Ideal for: Leadership summits, industry conferences, executive offsites, C-suite and senior leadership events
KEYNOTE 3
"Motion Is Not Momentum"
What's really happening when talented teams stall — and why the fix is almost never what leaders think it is.
WHY STACEY BUILT THIS TALK:
She has managed high-performing teams through periods where everyone was working hard and nothing was moving. The instinct — always — was to add more: more meetings, more accountability, more process, more pressure. It took years of leading through disruption to understand that busy and productive are not the same thing. And that the real bottleneck is almost never what it looks like on the surface. This session is for every leader who has ever watched a talented team spin its wheels and wondered what they were missing.
There is a version of organizational dysfunction that looks like hard work from the outside. Teams are moving. Leaders are meeting. Output is happening. And yet — nothing is really advancing. This is motion without momentum, and it is one of the most expensive and least diagnosed problems in high-performing organizations today.
In this session, Stacey breaks down the difference between activity and progress, identifies the three most common hidden bottlenecks that cause talented teams to stall, and gives leaders a practical framework for diagnosing what’s actually happening — so they can fix the right thing instead of adding more to an already overloaded system.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
- A clear distinction between motion and momentum — and how to tell which one their team is in
- The three hidden bottlenecks that cause high-performing teams to stall
- A diagnostic framework for identifying the real constraint — not just the visible symptom
- Immediate actions to recover true momentum without adding headcount, hours, or pressure
Available as: Keynote (45–60 min) | Workshop (90 min) | Executive retreat session Ideal for: Leadership summits, executive offsites, high-growth organizations, operations and people leaders
KEYNOTE 4
"On Frequency: What Alignment Actually Feels Like"
For leaders who've built everything they were supposed to want and can't figure out why it doesn't feel like enough.
WHY STACEY BUILT THIS TALK:
There was a season in Stacey’s career where she had everything the leadership books said she should want — the title, the team, the results, the recognition. And she felt completely off. Not ungrateful. Not broken. Just… out of tune. Like she was playing the right notes in the wrong key. Learning to identify what alignment actually felt like — and how to get back to it intentionally — changed everything about how she led. This session is that conversation.
Most leaders know what burnout feels like. Few know what alignment feels like — because they’ve never been taught to recognize it, name it, or return to it deliberately. On Frequency is a session about the internal signal every leader has access to and almost no one is taught to listen to: the felt sense of being in sync with your values, your work, and the people you’re leading.
Drawing on her own experience and the frameworks she’s built working with leaders across industries, Stacey guides attendees through a process of identifying what alignment looks and feels like for them specifically — and what it costs when they stay out of tune too long. Attendees leave not with a to-do list but with a renewed sense of direction and one committed shift toward leading from a place of genuine alignment.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
- A working definition of alignment that goes beyond job satisfaction or work-life balance
- Tools to identify when they’re operating out of alignment — and what’s causing it
- A personal framework for returning to alignment intentionally, not accidentally
- One clear, committed shift they’re ready to make before they leave the room
Available as: Keynote (45–60 min) | Workshop (90 min) | Half-Day Facilitated Session Ideal for: Executive retreats, women’s leadership conferences, association events, leadership summits
Not sure which session is right for your audience?
Let's talk. Stacey works directly with event planners and meeting executives to find the right fit — format, length, and topic — for your specific audience and goals.
Or email directly: stacey@staceykauffman.com