Keynotes and Workshops That Integrate Well-Being Into Leadership
Lauren combines real-world experience and powerful storytelling to spark the mindset shifts and strategies leaders need to lead with clarity, energy, and impact.
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Signature Keynotes & Workshops
Lauren’s keynotes and workshops aren’t just inspiring. They’re transformational. With high-impact storytelling, practical strategies, and emotional depth, her talks challenge leaders to rethink success and recharge from the inside out. Book Lauren for your conference, event, management retreat, team offsite or leadership development programming.
Slow Down Skills: The Non-Negotiables of Strong, Sustainable Leadership
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In today’s fast-paced world, leaders and their teams are burning out and it’s negatively impacting their mental health. Solving this crisis doesn't start with doing more. It starts with redefining which skills actually sustain great leadership. In this bold, inspiring keynote, Lauren St. Germain introduces the Slow Down Skills: rest, reflection, and celebration. These aren’t soft skills. They’re non-negotiables for sustainable success and human well-being. Through personal stories, powerful insights, and actionable strategies, Lauren gives professionals permission to lead at more than one speed and proves that slowing your pace isn’t weakness, it’s strategic.
Key Takeaways:
Reframe rest, reflection, and celebration as power skills in leadership
Build slow down rituals into your day that protect and restore your energy
Understand what well-being looks like in real time to prevent burnout
The Whole Human Achiever: Build a Career that Doesn’t Break You
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High-performers don’t need another pep talk. They need a new playbook. This inspiring keynote introduces Lauren’s Whole Human Achiever framework: a practical, mindset-shifting model for redefining success, reclaiming energy, and building a career that supports a full, rich life. With heart-led stories and simple strategies rooted in identity-based habit change, she shows leaders how to stop chasing success at the cost of themselves and instead, model a way of living and leading that is both ambitious and human.
Key Takeaways:
Discover a framework for sustaining success and well-being
Align personal priorities with professional impact
Reconnect with what energizes you and lead with intention
The Power of Rest in Leadership: Develop the Skill That Fuels Us
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Many leaders are highly skilled at solving complex problems, communicating effectively, and thinking strategically. But what they may struggle with is this: getting real, regular and nourishing rest in their daily lives. During this workshop, attendees will learn Lauren’s Rest Ready framework, a 4-step process to learn how to get better quality rest and create an intentional action plan to harness the power of this practice so they can live and lead well.
An Hour Inward: Create Space for Meaningful Reflection
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Before we lead others well, we have to reconnect with the human at the center of it all: ourselves. This session gives attendees the space they need to slow down, turn inward, engage in self-discovery and have meaningful conversations with one another. Choose a “turning inward” topic and Lauren will facilitate a powerful event that provides space for both reflection and connection and leaves participants feeling inspired, energized and grounded.
Perfect If You’re Wanting to:
Create space for meaningful reflection and real conversation
Support both personal and professional growth for attendees
Deepen connection and trust within your team
Can’t choose just one? Lauren partners with organizations to design custom sessions that speak directly to your team’s needs and challenges leaving them energized, connected and equipped to lead well.
About Lauren
After 10+ years growing in corporate leadership roles, Lauren St. Germain experienced burnout in her early 30s. As a result, she began rethinking everything she knew about success and set out to approach ambition differently. Now, as a keynote speaker and facilitator, she brings both heart and business sense to stages and conference rooms, empowering teams to live well and lead well. She’s on a mission to spark culture change and lead a movement of achievers who lead with excellence and live with intention. Outside of work, Lauren is a wife, mother and the friend who’s always baking sourdough bread.
As a trusted facilitator for an executive coaching and training firm, Lauren has also led sessions for:
RTX
Pratt & Whitney
Collins Aerospace
Google
FedEx
Travelers
Cigna
The Hartford
…and more!
“Lauren is the rare coach and facilitator who pairs sharp business sense with a genuine gift for people. She understands how organizations work because of her lived experience. In the room, she earns trust quickly and uses storytelling to carry messages in a way people can hear and act on. I have seen her do this with large audiences and with small cohorts, from community nonprofits to Fortune 500 executive teams. Client feedback is consistently outstanding, and leaders ask for her by name. People do not just leave inspired. They leave with practical strategies, more confidence, and a mindset shift that shows up in their behavior and in the culture of their teams.”
-Jay Prewitt-Cruz, Director of Coaching and Facilitation, The Latimer Group
What Makes Her Different
Real-world Expertise:
15+ years combined experience in public accounting, Fortune 500 finance, nonprofit board leadership, coaching, and leadership development
Trusted facilitator and coach:
Leads events for an executive coaching and training firm working with leaders across industries from mission-driven organizations to Fortune 500 companies
Relevant and relatable:
Deeply understands the high-pressure environments her audiences navigate daily
Memorable delivery:
Blends stories and science with practical strategies and always brings the energy to match the moment
More than motivation:
Sparks mindset shifts that lead to lasting behavior change and real culture transformation
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“Working with Lauren was a pleasure from start to finish. She was incredibly professional, attentive, and responsive during the planning process. She took the time to understand our firm’s unique culture and tailored the content to meet our specific needs. Her professionalism and bright personality made the entire process smooth and enjoyable. For organizations that are serious about investing in their team’s well-being and addressing issues like burnout, Lauren is a fantastic choice. She has a unique ability to connect with people and deliver content that is both practical and impactful.”
-Rachel F., The Flood Law Firm