Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD

In this keynote geared toward audiences facing uncertainty and change, Dr. Andrea shares stories, science, and practical tools for practicing compassionate agility – defined as “the ability to prioritize empathic connection and support, while deftly and boldly navigating challenge and change.” Your audience will walk away enriched with practical wisdom, inspiring examples, and actionable strategies for doing and saying hard things in connected, genuine, and human ways.

How can leaders maintain a high level of caring connection while dexterously guiding people through difficult, new, complex, unpopular, or otherwise stress-inducing circumstances? In this keynote geared toward audiences facing uncertainty and change, Dr. Andrea shares stories, science, and practical tools for practicing compassionate agility – defined as “the ability to prioritize empathic connection and support, while deftly and boldly navigating challenge and change.” Your audience will walk away enriched with practical wisdom, inspiring examples, and actionable strategies for doing and saying hard things in connected, genuine, and human ways.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Facing significant change and/or challenge
• Desiring boosted emotional resilience, boundaries, and self-compassion
• Looking for ways to navigate decisions, changes, and initiatives with boldness, efficiency, confidence, and timeliness while at the same time making people feel seen, safe, included, and supported

Your audience will leave with:

• An expanded capacity to self-support and maintain inward boundaries while supporting and empowering others through difficulty
• Tools to manage stress, and stay grounded yet nimble amid uncertainty
• Fresh insights into the crucial roles of candor, clarity, and consistency in leadership – with tips for how to practice these
• Excellent strategies for maintaining inward equanimity in the face of emotional struggle – whether one’s own, another’s, or both
• Strategies for decision-making that’s both strategically inclusive and boldly decisive

In today’s dynamic world of work, supportive cultures of care have become integral to success. Without the right balance of compassion and accountability, leaders risk losing their best people.

In this impactful keynote, Dr. Andrea shares a powerful framework for navigating challenge and change with the highest levels of emotional intelligence, so we can help those we lead do the same.

The result? More effective leaders, happier employees, and more cohesive, connected, and collaborative teams.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Struggling to navigate challenge and change
• Feeling disconnected from their work or team
• Seeking stronger relationships with people at work
• Achieving goals at the expense of themselves
• Working to supercharge how they collaborate

Your audience will leave with:

• An expanded capacity to self-advocate while empowering others
• Tools to manage stress, combat overwhelm, and lead effectively
• Recommendations for how to say hard things with heart
• Practical strategies to lead in effective, emotionally intelligent ways

Failure, whether real or perceived, can feel like a monumental setback. But what if our insecurities and flaws held the key to unlocking our true potential? In this empowering talk, Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth explores the transformative power of radical self-compassion in the workplace and beyond. By reframing our worst fears and foibles into opportunities to shine, she explores how we can find resilience and renewal in the face of life’s inevitable mishaps.

This keynote is ideal for audiences who are:

• Seeking to excel while maintaining their wellbeing
• Experiencing challenges, setbacks, or insecurities
• Aiming to boost their emotional resilience
• Intent on unlocking their full potential
• Looking to support and uplift others

Your audience will leave with:

• A deep understanding of self-compassion in work, life, and leadership
• Practical strategies for finding grit, grace, and resilience in the face of setbacks
• The ability to transform failures into opportunities for growth

Compassionate leadership is usually understood interpersonally, as the care we extend to the individuals and the teams right in front of us. This new keynote widens the frame to ask what a larger, more expansive compassionate corporate consciousness might look like–one savvy enough to respond not only to the pain of individuals and individual teams, but to the stucknesses, misunderstandings, and inefficiencies that live in the seams between the teams. Because the talk is being built right now, it can be closely tailored to Arevon’s growth areas, with particular attention to interdepartmental communication (especially feedback-sharing, both positive and constructive), execution and efficiency, and stress and wellbeing. The session is designed to be highly interactive: rather than working from hypotheticals, Dr. Hollingsworth will open a live general topic and invite participants to raise the systemic challenges they are wrestling with right now. People will gain real traction while they are still in the room and walk away having identified at least one seam in need of mending, along with practical strategies for mending it. Even those not directly affected will learn and grow as they witness “anti-silo leadership” skills in action.