In 2026, burnout remains a silent epidemic with 83% of workers reporting symptoms. 

Q2 is the perfect time to refocus, recharge, and give your team the tools to thrive. As new year motivation fades and pressure to beat last quarter rises, employees need fresh tools for resilience, work-life balance, and avoiding burnout now more than ever. A speaker who specializes in these areas can help your team stay engaged, energized, and ready to exceed expectations.

Wema Hoover: From Burnout to Breakthrough: Reimagining Performance in the Modern Workplace: As leaders push for results, they must also create space for well-being, renewal, and human-centered performance. In this energizing keynote, Wema Hoover redefines what high performance looks like in the age of constant connectivity and change. Blending neuroscience, leadership practice, and enterprise culture insights, she shares how to build sustainable performance systems that avoid burnout while accelerating innovation and impact. A must-hear message for executive teams managing scale and speed.

Erin Stafford: Burn Bright Not Out: The Blueprint for Leaders and Teams to be Unstoppable: In this transformative keynote, Erin delivers a powerful framework in her signature entertaining and high-energy style, designed to help leaders and teams unlock next-level performance while maintaining balance and resilience. Packed with actionable insights and inspiring stories drawn from her hyper-growth leadership background and decades of research with CEOs, Fortune 100 leaders, Olympians and celebrities, Erin empowers audiences to move beyond hustle culture and embrace strategies that drive exceptional results without burning out.

Jesse Israel: Finding Calm in Chaos: How to Strengthen Resilience, Mitigate Burnout and Thrive in the Face of Uncertainty
In a world of increasing technological change and constant crisis, finding clarity, calm, and presence in our daily lives is becoming more difficult than ever before. To maintain our well-being, focus, and performance amidst the chaos, we need the essential skill of filtering noise. Jesse Israel teaches exactly how to do that with his Amplified Quiet Framework. In this interactive and transformative keynote, Jesse creates an immersive experience,
empowering the audience to access an unexpected state of calm and connection that’s rarely felt at group events. Attendees will learn how to activate that same energy in their own lives and workplaces, tap into resiliency and feel ready to take on the unknown.

Sahar Yousef: The Science of Burnout Prevention and Maintaining Mental Wellbeing
Dr. Sahar Yousef highlights why burnout became officially classified as an occupational syndrome by the World Health Organization. She explores leading indicators and what distinguishes burnout clinically from excess stress and exhaustion, and explains how to reverse the slow damage burnout does to the brain and body. She also provides an opportunity to take a 3-minute assessment (The Burnout Risk Index, BRI®) to determine your individual or team’s burnout risk, along with practical frameworks for psychologically detaching from work and life stressors, including the 3M Framework for preventing burnout.

Rachel Sheerin: Burning at Both Ends: How to love your work and life (again)
We all have big goals. But the reality is we’re tired and could use a total reset. Your event can reunite them for happiness and success with this humorous and motivational keynote from Rachel Sheerin. Filled with stories, studies and strategies for success, Rachel delivers a rollercoaster of smiles, laughs and ah-ha moments to audiences that are craving energy, engagement and a fresh start.

Support your organization with real tools from top experts to mitigate burnout. Reach out for to info@bigspeak.com for more information.