9:15 - 9:45 EST
The Confident Leader: How to Build REAL Confidence to Gain a Competitive Edge
• In a world that glorifies hustle, most professionals are delivering results on the outside while quietly battling self-doubt, burnout, and disconnection on the inside. That gap between how people show up and how they actually feel is a wellbeing crisis in disguise. Real confidence isn't about being louder or more polished. It's an inside job, and when professionals build it, everything changes. They stop overthinking, set boundaries without guilt, and lead with clarity instead of anxiety. Simone Knego, USA Today bestselling author, CPA turned entrepreneur, and mother of six, has spent years helping professionals break free from the self-doubt that quietly holds them back. Her REAL Method™ is a practical, proven framework that connects confidence directly to wellbeing, because you can't sustainably perform at your best when you don't believe in yourself. Attendees will leave with real tools to quiet the inner critic, build self-trust, and show up with more clarity, presence, and resilience at work and in life. resilience without burnout.
10:00 - 10:30 EST
Why Leadership Accountability is a Wellbeing Imperative
In this session, Dr. Vince Molinaro shows how leadership accountability drives employee wellbeing and business results. It highlights how leaders shape workplace stress, trust, and performance, and what they can do to create healthier, more effective teams. Five key learning outcomes: Understand how leadership accountability impacts wellbeing and performance. See how leader behavior affects team stress, trust, and results. Learn the three levels of accountability: individual, team, and organization. Identify key leadership behaviors that build trust and clarity. Apply simple actions to strengthen accountability and team health.
10:45 - 11:45 EST
The Missing Mental Health Support: How to keep Staff and Teams Engaged, Focused and Resilient
In this session find meaningful programming that provides long-term results like better retention, more engaged employees and resilient teams that can withstand change management and rapid growth within your organization. Learn first-hand what a virtual guided meditation session can do as a mental health support for individuals and teams, and experience an effective group practice that gives participants real, applicable skills and tools they can use to support personal wellbeing. In this session, you’ll also learn simple and straightforward techniques to incorporate mindfulness into the culture of your organization and will leave with a clear strategy to incorporate meditative practices into your organization’s wellness plan and available services.
12:00 - 1:00 EST
We Can Work It Out: Innovating Conflict Communication in the Workplace
Workplace conflict is a leading cause of stress for employes, significantly contributing to overall job stress, precipitating decreased productivity and team tensions. Additionally, business leaders can spend an average of 30% of their time on conflict resolution, often resulting in considerable financial loss. As the Beatles song suggests though, there's hope amid our differences if we can keep talking constructively. This session equips leaders with the conflict intelligence and practical tools to skillfully facilitate restorative face-to-face conversations in the workplace and provides an effective foundation for gaining mastery in this arena. The workshop will focus on: A relational, forward-looking framework that facilitates increased competencies to regenerate adverse communication and build a healthier communication system. Assessment of autonomy and connection needs and skill-building strategies for engendering growth in both personal power and openness to others. Three go-to action strategies that that engender positive self-management and productive communication the midst of problematic conversations.
1:15pm - 1:45pm EST
The New Golden Rule: Transform Yourself, Transform Your Leadership
A powerful keynote that redefines leadership from the inside out. Grounded in self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional intelligence, it helps leaders: Break free from burnout,Quiet the inner critic, Lead with greater clarity and connection . Through a compelling real-world narrative and practical tools, participants gain a clear, actionable path to more energized, resilient, and effective leadership.
2:00pm - 2:30pm EST
The Role of Fear in Decision Making
We all make decisions. What is your process? Does fear have a role? Come hear this talk about your fears and how they affect the decisions you make in life. Are they a healthy part of your decision-making process, do they paralyze you, or do they make you miss opportunities in life? Imagine the possibilities, if, instead of avoiding fear, you approached it with courage. With fear as your ally, a wide variety of choices becomes possible.
2:45pm - 3:15pm EST
Measuring Wellbeing in an AI-Augmented Organization
Traditional engagement metrics fall short in Work 4.0, and organizations must evolve toward measuring decision autonomy, cognitive load, and capability growth. As AI reshapes how work gets done, it is also quietly reshaping how work feels. Traditional wellbeing and engagement metrics—designed for stable roles and predictable workloads—are no longer sufficient in an environment where tasks shift rapidly, decisions are distributed, and cognitive demands are constantly evolving. In this session, Chris Daden introduces a new lens for workplace wellbeing in the age of AI: one that moves beyond satisfaction scores and toward measurable indicators of how humans operate within dynamic systems. Drawing on his experience building and scaling global teams in AI-driven environments, he explores how organizations can better understand and support their workforce by focusing on decision autonomy, cognitive load, and the development of durable human capabilities. This talk offers leaders a practical framework for redefining wellbeing—not as a static state, but as the ability to sustain performance, clarity, and resilience as work continuously changes. Key Takeaways: Why traditional engagement and wellbeing metrics fall short in AI-driven environments, How to measure decision autonomy and its impact on employee performance and satisfaction, Understanding and managing cognitive load in increasingly complex, AI-augmented workflows, The role of capability growth and adaptability in long-term wellbeing, How to design systems that support both human performance and human sustainability.
3:30pm - 4:00pm EST
Slowing Down to Go Faster: Why Stillness Is a Performance Strategy
In today’s workplace, speed is rewarded — yet burnout, poor decisions, and communication breakdowns are becoming the norm. Leaders acknowledge the importance of wellbeing and reflection, but often say, “There’s always another deadline.” Until, suddenly, the system stops working. In this talk, Michael OBrien, former corporate executive and longtime advocate for growth and inclusion, shares a practical framework that helps teams gain clarity, communicate more effectively, and make better decisions under pressure. Key takeaways include: Why constant reaction undermines performance and culture, How intentional pauses reduce burnout and rework, The role leaders plays in creating space for better thinking, Simple practices leaders can use immediately, without slowing progress.
4:15pm - 4:45pm EST
When the System Is One Person's Gut: How Invisible Decision-Making Architecture Burns Out Your Best People
Description: Every scaling company has a version of the same hidden problem: critical decisions still run through one person's intuition long after the organization has outgrown that model. The downstream cost is a specific kind of organizational stress that breaks your best people: chronic ambiguity, learned helplessness, the quiet exhaustion of trying to guess what leaders want instead of building on information you can actually see. I've spent a decade as an operator at Reddit, Tinder, Twitter/X, Snowflake, and Strava. The teams with the worst engagement scores aren't always the ones working the hardest. They're often the ones with the least visibility into how and why decisions get made above them. This session walks through what that pattern looks like from the inside, how building decision-making infrastructure at one company improved pulse scores by 60%, and diagnostic questions HR leaders can take back to figure out where invisible decision-making architecture is quietly breaking their people. If burnout in your organization tracks with decision ambiguity more than workload, the fix isn't a better wellness program. It's making decision quality a wellbeing metric the C-suite actually owns.
