High energy, Thought Leader Jessica Rector is The only speaker on burnout who uses her own research in her dynamic presentations.
Burnout Expert. Dynamic Speaker.
In addition to the topics listed below, Jessica also speaks on preventing burnout in leaders, enhancing communication and resolving conflict. All of her sessions are customized to each specific audience and the event needs.
Twelve-year-old Blaise Rector is an optional co-presenter on any of the sessions.
For long lasting results and to keep the momentum going, in addition to Jessica’s keynote, most events book the first and only comprehensive solution to burnout, Jessica’s SaaS platform, Burnoutable.
High-energy, research-driven sessions that inspire action and lasting change.
Keynote Experiences That Transform
The Say Yes Experience
Discover how curiosity, courage, and connection ignite personal and professional growth. A high-energy session that transforms fear into fuel for success.
Embrace the Yes
Step into a mindset that welcomes risk, curiosity, and new possibilities—break free from fear and seize what’s ahead.
Blaze Your Brain
Rewire thought patterns, silence the inner critic, and spark positive habits that elevate performance and resilience.
The Courage Culture
Build a workplace where courage isn’t optional—it’s the foundation. Empower teams to lead openly, take risks, and thrive.
Keynote Option 1
THE Say Yes EXPERIENCE ™
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Into Possibilities
Can be a keynote, workshop or fire side chat, and 12-year-old Blaise Rector is an optional co-presenter
Burnout is stealing energy, creativity, and motivation. Teams are disengaged, individuals are overwhelmed, and companies are losing top talent. What if the solution to burnout and mental health challenges isn’t just about more breaks, but about embracing the power of “yes”—to challenge yourself, to take risks, and to connect with your true potential? This dynamic keynote experience is a call to action to break free from the patterns that keep you stuck, to embrace the possibilities that lie beyond fear, and to create a culture where individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in the face of change.
Inspired by Blaise, a remarkable nine-year-old who created this life-changing process to help his mom prevent burnout, the Say Yes Experience introduces a system rooted around three core pillars. By saying “yes” to new possibilities, you can reignite your energy, transform your mental state, and create deep, lasting connections that fuel personal and professional growth.
In this high-energy, interactive session, your audience will be guided through real-time exercises that will shift their mindset, reinvigorate their passion, and reignite their mental and emotional health. Attendees will walk away with powerful tools to embrace discomfort, leverage uncertainty, and transform stress into momentum.
In this powerful session, participants will learn how to push past fear, embrace challenges, and reconnect with their true potential. Curiosity will push them to break out of their comfort zone and explore what they’ve always thought was impossible. Courage will empower them to tackle risk, change, and uncertainty without hesitation. And connection will help them build stronger, more supportive relationships—both with themselves and others.
By the end, they’ll walk away with practical tools and an action plan to create their own Say Yes Experiences, driving both personal fulfillment and collective success in the workplace.
Learning Objectives
Break Through Performance Plateaus
Experience the groundbreaking Three Core Pillars Framework that’s helping Fortune 500 teams break through performance plateaus
Rethink Change Management
Explore why traditional change management fails – and how the neuroscience of “yes” creates sustainable transformation
Build a ‘Yes’ Culture
Create a “yes” culture of innovation and resilience, where challenges are embraced as opportunities to grow
Turn Stress Into Motivation
Transform mental exhaustion into motivation—learn how to turn stress into forward momentum
Rewire Your Response to Risk
Unlock the secret to adapting to change by rewiring risk-response patterns
Create Your Own Say Yes Experiences
Leave with a customized action plan that enables participants to create their own Say Yes Experiences and start implementing them immediately.
Session Video
Get ready to be inspired and motivated to reach new levels in your career, relationships, and your personal life. Watch as your doubts and excuses fade away and you start living the life you desire. You’ll explore Jessica Rector’s Say Yes framework to eradicate your limiting beliefs and walk through fear that currently holds you back.
You’ll leave with more confidence, an action plan for what’s next in your life, and the courage to pursue your desires and dreams without hesitation. Get ready to move to your next level of greatness, because the world is waiting for you.
Keynote Option 2
Embrace the Say Yes
The Unconventional Way to Prevent and Blaze Burnout
Can be a keynote, workshop or fire side chat
Burnout isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the #1 threat to today’s workforce. In the last year alone, 90% of employees have battled burnout, leading to skyrocketing turnover, plummeting productivity, and billions lost by organizations. And here’s the hard truth: it’s not going away on its own. Traditional wellness programs? They don’t work. Self-care Sundays? Not enough. The real solution requires a proactive, systemic approach—one that transforms both how individuals manage stress and how organizations create burnout-resistant cultures.
Jessica delivers the most advanced, research-backed strategies to prevent and eliminate burnout—before it takes down your best people. Through a three-part process built on over a decade of research, we’ll uncover 20 hidden drivers of burnout, why both individual habits and workplace culture must align, and how to implement game-changing check-ins that detect burnout early. Participants will discover the biggest myths about burnout, why traditional wellness programs fail, and what actually works to create energized, high-performing teams.
This interactive experience changes the way people think about burnout. Attendees will take part in dynamic exercises designed to rewire how they recognize and appreciate themselves and their teams. They’ll leave with real-world tools they can implement immediately to reduce burnout, increase engagement, and create a workplace where people don’t want to leave.
Learning Objectives
Stop Burnout from Draining Your Organization
Learn how burnout is silently draining organizations’ revenue, increasing turnover, and killing productivity—and what you can do to stop it
Keep Your Best People Thriving
Understand why burnout is the #1 reason employees leave, and implement strategies that make people want to stay and thrive
Turn Stress Into Growth
Demonstrate techniques to transform stress into a catalyst for growth
Discover What Really Drives Burnout
Understand the REAL drivers of burnout (hint: it’s not what you think)
Build Psychological Safety
Uncover advanced communication frameworks to build psychological safety in your organization and with leaders
Break Free from Traditional Burnout Solutions
Find out why traditional approaches to burnout don’t work—and what actually creates a burnout-proof workplace
Session Video
You’ll be able to identify your exact contributing factors to burnout and stress and how they are affecting your work and lives. Jessica shares her Burnout Success Formula, the misconceptions with burnout, and easy-to-implement actionable steps to improve motivation, productivity, and mind wellness. She is not just talk; she demonstrates some of the strategies on the spot and gets your audience to participate, whether live or virtually, so they know exactly how to do them (and why they are important for their lives) when they leave.
The result: Using Jessica’s blueprint, attendees leave more energized, empowered, and resourceful to stifle stress, overcome overwhelm, and break through burnout, which improves performance, engagement, and focus greatly increasing health and wellness, resulting in people who are more productive, able to perform at a higher level, and stay at their organization longer.
Keynote Option 3
Blaze Your Brain
Turn Negative Thoughts into Positive Action, Bigger Results and Better Outcomes
Can be a keynote, workshop or fire side chat
What if the biggest thing holding you (and your team) back wasn’t external stress, deadlines, or change—but the invisible battle happening inside your own mind? The truth is, every person has 60,000 thoughts per day—and a shocking 80% of them are negative. These subconscious thought patterns create self-doubt, overwhelm, and burnout—all while draining productivity, killing creativity, and spreading toxicity through entire teams and organizations. The good news? Negative thinking is just a habit—and habits can be rewired.
This electrifying keynote delivers a powerful, science-backed system to break free from the negative thought loops that sabotage success. Attendees will discover Jessica’s 5-Step Process to identify their most destructive thoughts, rewrite the false stories they’ve been telling themselves, and replace them with truthful, empowering beliefs that fuel action. They’ll also uncover the triggers that spark negativity, learn how toxic individuals infect entire teams, and gain the exact strategies to build a culture of resilience—even in times of uncertainty.
But this isn’t just about mindset shifts—it’s about real-time transformation. Through dynamic, interactive exercises, attendees will catch negative thoughts in the moment, rewire them into positive, forward-moving actions, and walk away with a tangible game plan to improve their leadership, performance, and personal well-being. This is more than motivation—it’s a breakthrough experience that rewires thinking, stops burnout in its tracks, and creates unstoppable momentum.
Learning Objectives
Turn Self-Doubt Into Unstoppable Confidence
Turn self-doubt into unstoppable confidence and learn how to silence the inner critic and replace hesitation with bold, decisive action.
Master Your Thought Patterns
Turn self-doubt into unstoppable confidence and learn how to silence the inner critic and replace hesitation with bold, decisive action.
Break Free from Limiting Beliefs
Analyze the exact thoughts that are holding you back, keeping you stagnant and the action plan to create different outcomes in the future
Replace Triggers with Empowering Beliefs
Recognize negative thought triggers in real time and replace them with empowering beliefs that drive action
Rewire Your Brain for Change
Explore how to rewire your brain to embrace change and the unknown
Shift to a Proactive Success Mindset
Shift from reactionary thinking to a proactive, success-driven mentality that fuels achievement
Session Video
You’ll be able to identify your exact contributing factors to burnout and stress and how they are affecting your work and lives. Jessica shares her Burnout Success Formula, the misconceptions with burnout, and easy-to-implement actionable steps to improve motivation, productivity, and mind wellness. She is not just talk; she demonstrates some of the strategies on the spot and gets your audience to participate, whether live or virtually, so they know exactly how to do them (and why they are important for their lives) when they leave.
The result: Using Jessica’s blueprint, attendees leave more energized, empowered, and resourceful to stifle stress, overcome overwhelm, and break through burnout, which improves performance, engagement, and focus greatly increasing health and wellness, resulting in people who are more productive, able to perform at a higher level, and stay at their organization longer.
Keynote Option 4
The Courage Culture™
The Hidden Advantage Driving Innovation, Retention, and Resilience
Can be a keynote, workshop or fire side chat
Fear is running your workplace.
It’s in every meeting where someone stays silent.
Every idea left unsaid.
Every risk avoided.
Every leader waiting for more certainty before making the call.
Fear dictates how we show up—with clients, in conflict, and with each other. And it’s silently costing your organization innovation, retention, and growth.
In this high-impact keynote, Jessica Rector dismantles the invisible grip fear has inside your company—and shows how building a culture of courage changes everything.
Rooted in her transformative Say Yes Experience, Jessica shares how one wild “yes” with her 9-year-old son—chasing the best ice cream in the world—unleashed a global journey of purposeful discomfort, and how those same principles are now reshaping how top teams lead and operate.
Because when individuals develop courage, they break cycles of hesitation, perfectionism, and fear of failure—and unlock their next level of leadership.
And when entire teams lead with courage?
The organization accelerates. Decisions get faster. Conversations get real. Innovation gets unleashed.
This isn’t about being fearless.
It’s about choosing courage over comfort—over and over—until it becomes your culture’s default setting…igniting unlimited possibilities.
Learning Objectives
Build a Courage Culture™
Create a clear, actionable plan to build a Courage Culture™ that empowers teams to act boldly, communicate openly, and lead with resilience
Lead with Boldness and Openness
Equip leaders to model and reward courageous conversations, risk-taking, and failure as fuel for learning and speed
Turn Setbacks into Bounce-Forwards
Strengthen team resilience by embracing purposeful discomfort as a core value—so teams bounce forward, not just back, after setbacks
Confidently Navigate Uncertainty
Develop the skills to lead through uncertainty with confidence—when there’s no roadmap, no guarantee, and no perfect timing
Respond with Courage, Not Reactivity
Practice how to respond versus react in difficult conversations, using courage as a tool to build trust, transparency, and forward motion
Embed Daily Micro-Courage Practices
Establish daily micro-practices that increase courageous behaviors, resulting in higher engagement, productivity, and team alignment
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The former #1 sales producer, top-tier motivational speaker, and #1 best selling author of 10 books, through her inspiring keynote speeches, unlocks powerful insights to help you and your people get rid of burnout, turn those negative thoughts into bigger, better outcomes, and have a lot of fun while at it!
Whether you want to book to keynote speak at your event or want to continue the message through workshops, trainings, multi-session format.
