Leadership today is heavy. Leaders are expected to
manage performance, people, change, and emotions, often while silently running on empty themselves.

In this talk, Calissa speaks to the reality leaders are
living in, not the leadership theory they’ve already
heard. She explores how a leader’s relationship with
stress, boundaries, and self-care directly shapes team culture, engagement, psychological safety, and performance.

Calissa challenges the outdated belief that strong
leaders must always be “on,” showing how exhaustion at the top quietly cascades into disengagement, burnout, and turnover across teams. She reframes leadership resilience as a learnable skill — one that can be modeled, practiced, and embedded into organizational culture.

Key Take-Aways: 

• How leadership energy impacts morale, trust, and motivation
• Why burned-out leaders unintentionally create burned-out teams
• Boundary-setting as a modern leadership competency
• Practical ways to model resilience without losing authority

Outcome:

Leaders walk away with clear, actionable strategies to protect their own energy while strengthening trust, morale, and engagement across their
teams. They leave with a modern leadership lens that supports psychological safety, reduces burnout-driven turnover, and creates sustainable high
performance without sacrificing humanity.

For Entrepreneurs and Founders

Entrepreneurship is often sold as freedom but lived as constant pressure, blurred boundaries, and the fear that if you stop, everything will fall apart.

In this talk, Calissa dismantles hustle culture and
replaces it with a more honest, sustainable model for success. She speaks directly to entrepreneurs who are tired of being told to “push through” when they’re already running on fumes.

Drawing from lived experience and mental health
expertise, Calissa explores how burnout shows up in
decision-making, creativity, leadership, and growth. She addresses the guilt many entrepreneurs feel around rest and why that guilt often keeps businesses stuck or stagnant.

Key Take-Aways: 

• • How burnout quietly undermines growth and innovation
  • Why energy management is a business strategy, not a luxury
  • Boundaries as brand protection and leadership clarity
  • Sustainable scaling without sacrificing health or vision

Outcome:

Entrepreneurs leave with renewed clarity, focus, and permission to build success without self-destruction. They gain a practical framework for making better decisions, setting healthier boundaries, and scaling their businesses in
a way that supports both growth and long-term well-being.

For Sales and Service Professionals

Sales and service professionals live in constant performance mode – networking, relationship-building, client management, and emotional labour with little space to recover.

In this talk, Calissa names what many professionals feel but rarely say out loud: being “always on” is exhausting. She explores how chronic depletion impacts confidence, connection, credibility, and results.

Rather than offering productivity hacks, Calissa introduces a different approach, one rooted in energy, boundaries, and authenticity. She shows how sustainable self-care improves performance, not hinders it.

Key Take-Aways: 

• • • How emotional labour contributes to burnout in sales and service roles
    • Why exhausted professionals struggle with consistency and connection
    • Micro-recovery strategies for networking-heavy environments
    • Boundaries that strengthen relationships rather than damage them

Outcome:

Participants leave with practical tools to protect their energy, regulate emotional labour, and show up more confidently and consistently. They gain strategies to build stronger relationships, sustain performance, and maintain credibility without burning the candle at both ends.

For Community Sector and Helping Professionals

Helping professionals give deeply and are often expected to do so without limits. Many have been taught that caring for themselves means caring less about others.

In this grounded and validating talk, Calissa addresses compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and burnout with honesty and care. She creates space for professionals to acknowledge the weight they carry without shame or judgment.

Using the Oxygen Mask Mindset™, Calissa reframes self-care and boundaries as
essential tools for sustainability, not signs of weakness. She challenges the guilt that keeps many helpers stuck in survival mode.

Key Take-Aways: 

• • How compassion fatigue and burnout develop over time
  • Early warning signs professionals often ignore
  • Releasing guilt around rest and boundaries
  • Sustainable practices for staying in the work long-term

Outcome:

Attendees leave feeling seen, supported, and deeply validated in the weight they carry. They gain sustainable tools to manage compassion fatigue, set boundaries without guilt, and continue doing meaningful work without sacrificing their mental, emotional, or physical well-being.

For Neurodiversity and Invisible Disabilities

Invisible disabilities don’t disappear at work and for many professionals, they’re working twice as hard just to appear “fine.”

In this powerful and honest talk, Calissa shares what it’s like to navigate leadership, entrepreneurship, and high-performance environments while living with ADHD, anxiety, and an invisible disability. She explores
masking, emotional regulation, burnout, and the pressure to conform to systems that weren’t built for neurodivergent brains.

Rather than focusing on deficits, this talk reframes neurodiversity as an advantage when the right supports, boundaries, and expectations are in
place.

Key Take-Aways: 

• • Why traditional productivity models fail neurodivergent professionals
  • The hidden burnout of masking and emotional labour
  • Redefining focus, success, and boundaries
  • How inclusive environments unlock neurodivergent strengths

Outcome:

Neurodivergent professionals leave feeling recognized, affirmed, and
empowered to work in ways that honour how their brains function. Leaders
gain insight into invisible barriers and strengths, while organizations walk
away with practical, stigma-free strategies to support talent, reduce burnout,
and unlock true potential.