Thriving Leaders, Thriving Business
The keynote that tackles burnout and rewrites culture—so your leaders and your bottom line both win. Thrive in the 9-5 and beyond.
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Trusted by leading organizations, conferences, and media outlets to inspire audiences with fresh leadership insights.
Daphne is the leadership speaker organizations bring in when burnout is costing them time, energy, and eventually profits—because she turns laughs into lasting clarity, humor into momentum, and overstressed into inspired.
With decades of executive coaching, a masters in positive psychology, certification as a mindfulness meditation teacher, real-world leadership as an executive, and proven frameworks, Daphne blends science, storytelling, and wit to help leaders thrive—and take their companies with them.
Burnout isn’t just a wellness issue—it’s an ROI crisis.
- Gallup estimates burnout costs companies $322 billion every year in turnover and lost productivity.
- Disengaged employees are 18% less productive and just as disruptive.
- Replacing a burned-out leader costs up to 2x their annual salary.
The truth: when your leaders redline their lives, your people—and your profits—pay the price.
The good news? Thriving leaders don’t just feel better, they perform better too. They retain talent, increase engagement, and create cultures people don’t want to leave. This is the real bottom-line of sustainable long-term results.
Keynote Menu
What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Sane
(Signature Keynote)
Most leaders achieve success at the expense of their sanity. They climb the ladder, hit the numbers, and win the titles—only to find themselves burned out and stuck in unsustainable patterns.
In this keynote, Daphne introduces her Three C’s Framework (Clarity, Choice, Consequence) and her DELEGATE Framework to help leaders:
- Get crystal clear on what they want (and align with company goals).
- Recognize the choices that keep them stuck and floundering—or set them free to succeed.
- Build delegation systems that protect energy and develop their people.
Organizational ROI: Reduce turnover, protect leadership pipelines, and increase productivity by building leaders who can sustain performance.
Feedback That Fuels: Turning Dreaded Conversations into Growth Opportunities
Feedback shouldn’t be feared—it should fuel growth. Yet most leaders avoid it, sugarcoat it, or deliver it so poorly that it backfires. This is a leadership skill that is a lurking cause of burnout.
In this keynote, Daphne shares a refreshing, practical approach that builds trust and accelerates performance. Leaders will learn how to:
- Decode the neuroscience of why feedback often fails.
- Apply a simple, proven framework that makes feedback stick.
- Normalize feedback so it becomes part of everyday culture.
Organizational ROI: When feedback works, engagement rises, retention strengthens, costly miscommunications decline and leaders can move through their day without the fire fighting that accompanies poor team performance.
Get Clear, Get Real, Get Thriving: The Future of Leadership
The old leadership playbook—work harder, stay later, sacrifice more—is broken. Today’s organizations need a new model.
Through her Full Circle Leadership Practice, Daphne helps leaders:
- See the hidden costs of hustle culture.
- Reconnect with their true wants and values.
- Redefine leadership as clarity, energy equity, and sustainable growth.
Organizational ROI: Companies that adopt this model boost retention, attract top talent, and build cultures that last.
“One talk can change everything? Really?”
No keynote fixes culture overnight—but the right one can spark transformation.
Daphne’s keynotes are the catalytic moment—the spark that gets leaders laughing, thinking differently, and ready to lead change. And because she brings frameworks and coaching options along with real-world success, that spark becomes sustained momentum.
“Daphne transformed how our leaders approach work. Productivity is up, burnout is down, and people are actually enjoying their jobs again.”
— K. Venderman, VP of Client Services
“She gave our executives the tools to create clarity, manage energy, and lead with humanity. It’s already saving us turnover costs.”
— R. Rubin,
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