SPEAKING
Interactive keynotes that help your people speak up, step up, and lead through change
Your people are capable. Too many are holding back: second-guessing their ideas, staying quiet in meetings, passing on opportunities. My keynotes help them speak up, step up, and lead through change.
Rachel Druckenmiller, CSP®, delivers interactive, customized keynotes, workshops, and leadership training for associations, HR, healthcare, education, finance, insurance, real estate and property management, and women’s leadership events. In person, virtual, or hybrid.
Unleash the Clarity and Confidence to Come Alive & Contribute at Work
With 13 years of corporate experience in HR and employee wellbeing, I know what it takes to unlock engagement and elevate performance from the inside out.
I work with leaders and organizations to ignite clarity, confidence and contribution so people show up fully, lead boldly, and come alive at work.
Keynote Topics
UNMUTED: Stop Holding Yourself Back and Step Into What You’re Capable Of
Overcoming imposter syndrome and self-doubt, speaking up, and showing up with confidence.
What if the biggest thing standing between people and what they're capable of isn't a lack of ability, but a lack of belief in themselves?
Every day, capable people hold back. They second-guess their ideas, downplay their strengths, stay quiet when they have something valuable to say, and pass up opportunities because they don't feel confident, qualified, or ready. The cost isn't just what they miss out on. It's what everyone else misses out on when they don't show up fully.
Blending humor, powerful storytelling, meaningful audience interaction, and unexpected moments of music, Rachel creates an unforgettable experience that moves people to see themselves differently and do something differently because of it. Audiences recognize the ways they're holding themselves back, see their capabilities and possibilities differently, and find the courage to take action before they feel ready.
Because the goal isn't to never doubt yourself again. It's to stop letting doubt decide what you do.
It's time to stop sitting in the audience of your own life. It's time to get UNMUTED.
EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:
✔︎ Recognize what's holding them back by identifying where self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and fear of judgment are keeping them from sharing ideas, taking initiative, or pursuing opportunities.
✔︎ See their capabilities more clearly by recognizing the strengths, evidence, and perspectives they tend to discount or overlook.
✔︎ Take action before confidence catches up by borrowing belief, building evidence through experience, and saying yes without waiting to feel completely ready.
✔︎ Show up more fully and help others do the same by contributing more of what they have to offer and creating the encouragement and conditions that help others speak up and step forward.
Beyond the Blindside: Leading Through Change without Burning Out
A keynote on resilience and leading through change and uncertainty
Change is relentless. Restructuring, growth, uncertainty, and moments nobody saw coming. Your leaders are navigating all of it in real time, often while trying to steady the people around them.
But leading through uncertainty isn’t about having all the answers. Gallup research points to four things people look for from leaders during times of change: trust, compassion, stability, and hope. Rachel brings those needs to life through a simple idea: how you lead others through uncertainty begins with how you lead yourself through it.
Born from Rachel’s own experience of being blindsided by burnout, a life-altering pickup truck accident, and the uncertainty that followed, Beyond the Blindside gives leaders practical questions for the moments when there is no roadmap.
Through Rachel’s Reflect, Reframe, Recalibrate approach, leaders learn to reconnect to purpose and identity, shift from problems to possibilities, and make intentional choices about who they want to become in the middle of change. The goal isn’t to control what happens next. It’s to become someone who can meet what happens next with greater clarity, confidence, and humanity.
EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:
✔︎ Understand what people need most from their leaders during change and uncertainty, and why having all the answers isn’t one of those requirements.
✔︎ Reconnect to purpose when work feels uncertain or overwhelming by getting clear on who they’re helping and why it matters. That question is explicitly one of your anchors in the keynote.
✔︎ Strengthen their sense of identity by recognizing the qualities and capabilities they bring to difficult situations, including what they may not readily see in themselves.
✔︎ Reframe challenges by shifting from problems to possibilities, using questions that open up new ways of thinking when the path forward isn’t clear.
✔︎ Recalibrate around who they want to become, identifying the actions and choices that reflect the kind of leader they want to be when circumstances are outside their control.
Your Anthem Moment: How to Perform Under Pressure When It Counts
Build the skills, confidence and readiness to show up fully when the stakes are high
We all have moments when the stakes are higher and what we do matters. A big presentation. A difficult conversation. A new opportunity. A chance to do something we've never done before. We can't always predict when those moments will come, but we can prepare ourselves for them.
When Rachel Druckenmiller stepped onto the field at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to sing the national anthem in front of more than 30,000 people, the performance lasted less than two minutes. What no one in the stands could see were the years of practice, coaching, encouragement, and preparation that made those two minutes possible.
In Your Anthem Moment, Rachel takes audiences behind that experience to explore what it takes to perform when the pressure is on. Blending powerful storytelling, meaningful audience interaction, and practical strategies, she shows how to build readiness through intentional practice, coaching, feedback, and mental rehearsal. Audiences discover how to prepare not just to get through a high-stakes moment, but to trust themselves, be fully present, and make the most of it.
Because you don't get to choose exactly when your Anthem Moment will come. You do get to choose how you prepare for it.
EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:
✔︎ Get clear on what they're preparing for by identifying an upcoming high-stakes moment and how they want to show up when it arrives
✔︎ Build readiness through intentional practice by identifying the right repetitions, coaching, and feedback to strengthen their skills and confidence
✔︎ Prepare for pressure and the unexpected by using visualization and practical strategies to anticipate challenges, manage nerves, and rehearse how they want to perform
✔︎ Trust their preparation and show up fully by applying what they've practiced, staying present, and committing to the moment rather than simply trying to get through it
The Power of Borrowed Belief: How Great Leaders Grow Themselves and Others
How great leaders build confidence in their people and develop the next generation of leaders
Think about the person who believed in you before you believed in yourself. The one who told you a hard truth when you needed to hear it. Who held up a mirror and showed you what they saw. Who said “keep going” when you wanted to quit. Who pointed you toward a path you couldn't yet see.
Now here's the question most leaders never stop to ask: Who is waiting for you to be that person for them?
We all have people who showed up at exactly the right moment and helped us see something in ourselves or what was possible for us before we could see it on our own.
Through powerful stories, audience reflection, practical application, and research on expectations, self-efficacy, and feedback, Rachel explores the different ways belief from others shapes how we see ourselves, what we attempt, and how we grow.
Attendees will reflect on the people who helped shape them, learn how to seek out the belief and challenge they need for their own growth, and become more intentional about offering that same belief to others. Because sometimes we have to borrow other people's belief in us before we fully believe in ourselves. And as leaders, we never know what becomes possible when someone else borrows ours.
EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WILL:
✔︎ Recognize how belief from others shapes their own growth and identify the kinds of support, perspective, and challenge they need to keep growing
✔︎ Learn three distinct ways to help others grow by expanding what they see as possible, challenging them to rise, and taking action on their potential
✔︎ Challenge people more effectively by combining high expectations with genuine belief and the right support
✔︎ Identify who needs their belief right now and choose a specific way to help that person grow
UNLEASH CLARITY, CONFIDENCE & CONTRIBUTION
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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 lives 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.
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