SPEAKING

Keynote experiences that reignite the human spirit at work

Too many smart, capable people are burned out, stressed out, and checked out. They silence themselves, shrink back, or second-guess instead of speaking up and stepping up. It’s time to change that.

Empower Your People to Lead and Contribute at a Higher Level

With 13 years of corporate experience, I know what it takes to unlock engagement and elevate performance from the inside out.

I work with leaders, teams, and organizations to activate and amplify their voice, value, and vitality - elevating engagement and accelerating personal and professional growth.

Keynote Topics:

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UNMUTE Yourself: Activate Your V.O.I.C.E., Value & Vitality at Work

  • Too many people hold themselves back at work, not because they don’t care, but because they’ve been conditioned to play it safe. We second-guess our ideas, shrink our presence, and stay silent instead of speaking up. But silence has a cost: it limits our impact, stifles our potential, and prevents us from leading as fully as we’re capable of.

    In this eye-opening keynote, Rachel Druckenmiller empowers audiences to break free from self-silencing and self-doubt and activate a deeper sense of possibility, capability, and courage. Blending her evidence-backed V.O.I.C.E. Method with real-world corporate experience and an interactive delivery style, she equips people to take meaningful risks, step up with courage, and contribute with greater influence and impact.

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

  • Identify how self-doubt and self-silencing limit confidence, contribution, and team effectiveness

  • Learn how to model and encourage self-advocacy in your team or organization to strengthen trust, unlock talent, and build a culture of courageous contribution.

  • Apply strategies to elevate visibility, influence, and self-leadership across your team, organization, or association

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The Resilience Reset: Reflect, Reframe, Recalibrate

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

  • Implement a three-part framework to respond to change and disruption with intention, curiosity, and clarity

  • Reconnect with purpose and possibility to restore energy and direction

  • Engage in reflective, interactive practices that foster insight, connection, and forward movement

  • Change is constant, and with it comes uncertainty, disruption, and moments that can leave us feeling stuck, depleted, or disconnected. But resilience isn’t about pushing through; it’s about pausing, gaining perspective, and choosing how we move forward.

    In this energizing and reflective keynote, Rachel Druckenmiller shares a practical, three-part framework: Reflect. Reframe. Recalibrate. that empowers people to navigate change with curiosity, self-awareness, and clarity. Through story, science, and shared experience, Rachel equips audiences to shift from survival mode to forward momentum, reconnecting to what matters and reigniting purpose in the process.

    Whether you’re facing personal or organizational transition, this session offers a timely reset and a powerful path forward.

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Be the Difference: Amplify Purpose, Passion and Potential in Your People

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

  • Understand the core drivers of employee engagement and how leaders can amplify them in daily interactions

  • Learn how to foster psychological safety and elevate team performance through more intentional conversations

  • Facilitate meaningful, upward-spiral conversations at the organization to generate greater creativity, purpose, trust, and connection

  • In a time when people are stretched thin, burned out, and wondering if their work really matters, leaders have a powerful opportunity to be the difference in how their people feel, perform, and show up.

    In this energizing and actionable keynote, Rachel Druckenmiller invites leaders to rethink their influence. It’s not just about results; it’s about making people feel seen, heard, valued, and celebrated along the way. Through stories, science, and purposeful interaction, Rachel equips leaders to create moments of connection, recognition, and inspiration that unlock trust, engagement, and a renewed sense of purpose.

    Leaders will walk away with practical tools and renewed perspective to lead with more intention, heart, and humanity and to activate the potential of the people they serve.

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Ignite Your Impact: The 3 Cs of Transformational Leadership

EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:

  • Discover the three leadership qualities that work together to build trust, inspire engagement, and drive high performance.

  • Learn practical strategies to equip and motivate your team to lead with their strengths, take initiative, and contribute at their highest level.

  • Develop a leadership mindset that balances confidence with humility and action with reflection.

  • What sets the most effective leaders apart from the rest? It’s not their ability to command and control. It’s a distinct combination of traits proven to elevate trust, engagement, and performance. Leadership isn’t just about what you do. It’s about who you are while you’re doing it. Especially in moments of change and challenge, the leaders who make the greatest impact lead with presence, purpose, and integrity.

    This session introduces a research-backed framework to help leaders reflect on how they show up and how that presence shapes the trust, motivation, and performance of those around them. Through story, science, and actionable insights, we’ll explore what distinguishes high-trust, high-impact leaders and how to lead in a way that inspires loyalty, action, and lasting performance.

    It’s a timely reset for anyone ready to shift from transactional leadership to transformational impact, to spark a ripple effect that extends far beyond the moment.

UNLEASH PURPOSE, PASSION & POTENTIAL IN YOUR PEOPLE

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TESTIMONIALS

  • "Rachel was our opening keynote speaker for our annual conference and she was absolutely everything we wanted and more. I have never had a keynote speaker so engaged with an audience – people were with her one hundred percent. She brought such joy, positivity, and optimism at a time when we are all looking for beacons of hope. If you are planning an event and need someone to lift your group up, look no further than Rachel Druckenmiller – you will thank yourself for it!! (I know, I did!!)."

    —Ross Gibson, Director of Client Services at The Richards Group

  • "Rachel received rave reviews from our attendees. She easily connected with the audience because she is engaging, energetic, and you could see that she did her research and really tailored her workshop. I have already booked Rachel for future events because she is so good."

    —Julie Ferry, Portfolio Director, Event Services at Smithbucklin

  • "I pick a lot of speakers for my work, and Rachel is one of the absolute best. The entire audience was so engaged and listening to every word. Her presentation was the spark I needed to make a significant change in my life. If you are looking for motivation, inspiration, or a catalyst to bring about change, Rachel is your go-to speaker."

    —Stephanie Bidle, Maryland SHRM State Council

  • "I can’t speak highly enough of Rachel and how amazing it’s been to work with her. She brings an abundance of energy and a fresh perspective to team building, team education about self-care, resilience, managing change, etc. She is received extremely well by others because of her authentic and open nature and creates an environment that fosters meaningful connection in a way that isn’t cheesy or forced but comfortable and inviting."

    —Janelle Ullrich, Leading Marketing at Adventist Health

COMPANIES I’VE WORKED WITH

I’m Rachel Druckenmiller, your guide and advocate for living an UNMUTED life.

If you’d told my shy, 9-year-old self that I’d one day not just find my voice, but use it to uplift and inspire thousands of people around the world, I might not have believed you. Not only that, but a decade into my career working in Corporate HR, a lifetime of striving, proving, and achieving caught up with me, and I burned out at the age of 32 (when I was the Director of Wellbeing at my job!).

Motivated to make a change, I took time to pause, reflect, recalibrate, and tap into curiosity, agency, and possibility. I learned that we don't get to choose what happens to us, but we do get to control what we do with it and how we respond. Ultimately, we control our own attitudes and actions, and I was committed to doing that. I chose to take the challenges I'd been through to bring others hope, connect them to new possibilities, purpose, and perspectives. I wanted to help them feel a bit less alone and more motivated to take action in their own lives. Even though I didn’t choose my challenges, I was determined to find a way to use them. That’s when I started to unmute myself.

Now, my keynote speeches help audiences catalyze clarity, activate agency and unleash engagement and hidden potential. Everyone leaves feeling empowered, equipped, and energized to take action and ownership of their live and work, to be a contribution, and to live like they are somebody who matters and worth advocating for.

When you invite your leaders and teams to get UNMUTED, they become a more engaged, confident, and higher-performing version of themselves.

99%

OF ATTENDEES FIND SESSIONS VALUABLE

98%

OF ATTENDEES WANT TO HEAR RACHEL SPEAK AGAIN

*based on feedback from over 2,500 attendees

UNLEASH PURPOSE, PASSION & POTENTIAL IN YOUR PEOPLE

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