GIVE YOUR AUDIENCE MORE THAN INSPIRATION.
Our keynotes and on-site presentations are lively and spirited, with lots of easy-to-use tips to get everyone "in motion" — and on the road to enhanced wellbeing. Laura's unique style of speaking combines relevant science with meaningful stories and a good dose of humor.
laura is a global wellbeing speaker, bestselling author, and workplace activator,
From a book that pioneers a whole new system for workplace wellness to keynotes that are jam-packed with energy, insights, and humor to leadership development programs that infuse well-being and vitality into the workplace to help employees, teams, and organizations thrive.
Laura Putnam is turning the wellness world upside down.
keynote topics
Laura offers unexpected solutions to leverage every workplace, activate key influencers, and empower every individual.
If you're looking for inspiration and insights on topics related to well-being, motivation, innovation or improved performance, we can help.
signature talks
Adaptable up to 60-Minutes.
Wellness Rethink: What If It’s the Water, Not the Fish?
In America, we’ve been conditioned to believe that health and happiness is something we get for ourselves, by ourselves. “Better health is easy!”, we’ve been told, and is attainable to any of us through a positive mindset, better habits, and heightened awareness. But what if that’s not true? With a goal to help people get real about why we’re so unwell and what we should be doing instead, Laura offers a disruptive - but important - rethink on wellness. This begins with the question: What if it’s the water, not the fish?
Laura shows how our modern way of life, not personal choices, is what’s driving us to our chairs, overfeeding us with ultra-processed foods, hijacking our attention, and isolating us from others. In other words, it is the cultural shifts, the everyday pressures - the water itself - that is fueling the epidemics of loneliness, burnout, anxiety, and overall poor health we face today. The good news is we can change that - by focusing more on the water, and less on the fish.
Audiences will learn how to:
Intended Audience: All audiences
In America, we’ve been conditioned to believe that health and happiness is something we get for ourselves, by ourselves. “Better health is easy!”, we’ve been told, and is attainable to any of us through a positive mindset, better habits, and heightened awareness. But what if that’s not true? With a goal to help people get real about why we’re so unwell and what we should be doing instead, Laura offers a disruptive - but important - rethink on wellness. This begins with the question: What if it’s the water, not the fish?
Laura shows how our modern way of life, not personal choices, is what’s driving us to our chairs, overfeeding us with ultra-processed foods, hijacking our attention, and isolating us from others. In other words, it is the cultural shifts, the everyday pressures - the water itself - that is fueling the epidemics of loneliness, burnout, anxiety, and overall poor health we face today. The good news is we can change that - by focusing more on the water, and less on the fish.
Audiences will learn how to:
- Be curious, rethinking the prevailing narrative on health and wellness that focuses so much on the individual.
- Study the currents, to assess the “water” we each are swimming in.
- Engage the right people, in the right way to optimize the water, creating a culture and environment that naturally supports wellbeing.
Intended Audience: All audiences
All In: Wellbeing for everyone, by everyone.
Wellness is thriving. But we, as people, are not. We are stressed out, burned out, lonely, anxious, overweight, and more likely to be suffering from diabetes or heart disease than ever before. To make matters worse, we’re led to believe that it’s our fault we’re not well. We tell ourselves: I just need to download another app or meditate more or journal more or exercise more or fast more.
The truth is that our plummeting health and wellbeing is so much bigger than each of us. And arguably, the more each of us digs into our own personal practices, the less we can collectively see and address what’s happening all around us. The disconnect between the promise of wellness versus its manifestation in us is both disorienting and discouraging.
But there is hope. Hope lies in being ALL IN. Hope lies in ALL-IN wellness, not solo wellness. Hope lies in team care, not self-care. Hope lies in collective responsibility, not personal responsibility. We need to be ALL IN, making sure that wellbeing is by everyone, for everyone.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Wellness is thriving. But we, as people, are not. We are stressed out, burned out, lonely, anxious, overweight, and more likely to be suffering from diabetes or heart disease than ever before. To make matters worse, we’re led to believe that it’s our fault we’re not well. We tell ourselves: I just need to download another app or meditate more or journal more or exercise more or fast more.
The truth is that our plummeting health and wellbeing is so much bigger than each of us. And arguably, the more each of us digs into our own personal practices, the less we can collectively see and address what’s happening all around us. The disconnect between the promise of wellness versus its manifestation in us is both disorienting and discouraging.
But there is hope. Hope lies in being ALL IN. Hope lies in ALL-IN wellness, not solo wellness. Hope lies in team care, not self-care. Hope lies in collective responsibility, not personal responsibility. We need to be ALL IN, making sure that wellbeing is by everyone, for everyone.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Don’t believe the hype. The big lie in wellness is that better health and wellbeing is all about personal choices. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Culture shapes our health.
See what hiding in plain view. Our surrounding environment is literally conspiring against us being healthy. It’s time to wake up to all the ways that it is.
When we change all of us, we change each of us. The surprising path to better wellbeing is collective, not individual. Hope lies in creating movements of wellbeing.
We all have a role to play. Each of us can lead the way, but this looks different for each of us. It’s about engaging the right people, in the right way.
Interactive keynotes
Keynote-Meets-Workshop. Adaptable to 60-90 Minutes
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Managers as
Multipliers of Wellbeing Why Team Leaders Are Our Greatest Hope While senior leaders set the tone, managers are the key drivers of well-being at work. In fact, the best way to promote well-being at work is team by team, led by managers. Every manager needs to be awakened to the critical role they play and be given the tools they need to lead their team forward. Key Points:
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Workplace Wellness
that Works Infusing Wellbeing into Every Company Culture A healthier, happier workforce is good for people and good for the bottom line. But, are your workplace wellness programs actually working? Probably not. Most don’t. Learn how you can apply a smarter framework that infuses well-being into the workflow, tackles the taboo topic of mental health at work, and makes well-being a way of life. Key Points:
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Me At
My Best® How to create the life you want What can every individual do to fight back against a society that accelerates poor health? Each can learn about what it takes to thrive - and at the same time, take a clear-eyed view at what they're up against. Each can identify those forces that are working against them and more strategically maneuver around them to become their version of Me At My Best®. Key Points:
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HERE'S WHAT OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED:
“Laura is an empathic storyteller, which allows her to really connect with people. Her energy and insights create space for people to shift their thinking, remove barriers, and actually envision a Vermont where we could be the healthiest state in the nation.”
– Don George,
President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont
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"So grateful to Laura for being our incredibly interactive, energetic and brilliant keynote speaker at the American Heart Association's 2020 Workplace Health Symposium. She spoke the truth about what we need to do to Rewrite the Script about wellbeing in our workplaces and our communities to improve health across the board." "A dynamic and professional on-stage presence, Laura communicates by showing more than telling; her use of images, powerful data points, examples and stories enhances impact, as evidenced by numerous references to her content throughout the Workforce Strategy Conference." |
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"The time is now for all of us to rise up,
seize the moment, and make workplace
well-being work for all."
— LAURA PUTNAM