SPEAKING & EVENTS
Bree Johnson is a transformational speaker, entrepreneur, and former employment attorney reshaping how leaders navigate stress, power, and performance in modern workplaces. As the founder and CEO of Executive Unschool™ and creator of Work Recovery™, she helps ambitious leaders redefine success through nervous-system regulation, work wound healing, and sustainable human performance.
Bree’s research-driven frameworks and lived corporate experience make her a sought-after voice for organizations and executive audiences across the globe. She has delivered high-impact keynotes, partner retreats, and leadership workshops that equip teams to lead consciously, recover from chronic workplace stress, and thrive in environments undergoing rapid change.
Speaking & Workplace Training Topics
Work Recovery™: The Future of Leadership in a Burned-Out World
In this talk, Bree Johnson delivers a groundbreaking perspective on why traditional leadership models are collapsing under the weight of modern work and what today’s leaders must do to recover. Rooted in her research on Work Wounds™ and two decades inside boardrooms and crisis rooms, Bree reveals why burnout is no longer an individual failure but a systemic nervous-system crisis—and how Work Recovery™ offers a new path forward.
Through self-discovery work and science, Bree shows leaders how to regulate before they lead, rebuild trust after years of organizational strain, and create workplaces where people can actually recover, not just endure. This gives executives a new blueprint for conscious leadership, psychological sustainability, and navigating the turbulent future of work with clarity, courage, and humanity.
Work Recovery™ isn’t a wellness trend. It’s the leadership skill set the next decade will demand.
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The Power of Conscious Leadership
In a world defined by uncertainty, leadership isn’t about force, grit, or holding it all together. It’s about consciousness. Bree Johnson guides audiences into the heart of what modern leadership truly requires: emotional regulation, inner awareness, and the courage to lead from integrity rather than autopilot.
This offers a powerful reframe: conscious leadership isn’t soft. It’s strategic. It’s what allows leaders to create psychological safety, navigate complex human dynamics, make grounded decisions, and build cultures that can thrive through disruption. When leaders become more conscious, everything around them changes.
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Unbreakable: How to Lead When Everything Is Shifting
In this talk, Bree Johnson takes a hard look at the reality leaders are navigating today—layoffs, restructuring, instability, and constant reinvention—and shows why old resilience frameworks simply don’t work anymore. Instead of teaching people to “bounce back,” Bree introduces a sharper, more honest approach: learning to recognize the patterns beneath disruption, regulate through uncertainty, and lead with clarity even when nothing feels secure. This gives leaders the tools to stay grounded, adaptable, and effective in a world that keeps rewriting the rules of work.
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The Regulated Leader: How Nervous System Science Is Reshaping Work
Peak performance no longer comes from pushing harder—it comes from leading from a grounded, regulated state. Bree Johnson shows leaders how to shift out of overwhelm, pressure, and emotional labor and into a steadier, more intentional way of relating to their teams. This gives leaders the tools to navigate complexity, make better decisions, and build workplaces where calm isn’t a luxury but a strategic advantage.
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Awarded 2024 Most Influential Leadership Coach
Honored as a 2024 ‘Most Influential Leadership Coach’, Bree Johnson is featured in CXO Magazine’s December issue under ‘Unlocking Human Potential, One Leader at a Time.’
She is praised for redefining what leadership means in the modern workplace through consulting and coaching, steering teams to driving market results to guiding humans through nervous-system recovery and sustainable performance. Through her work with Executive Unschool and her proprietary Work Recovery™ model, Bree demonstrates how leaders can move beyond surface fixes and step into deeply restorative practices that align personal resilience with organizational agility.