Keynotes

Banish Burnout: Move from Stress to Success

It has been well-documented that burnout is plaguing the American workforce to the tune of $2 trillion annually, according to Business Insider. In a recent Gallup report Employee Burnout: Causes and Cures, “employee burnout is a symptom of modern workplaces that are increasingly fast-paced, complex and demanding.”

The World Health Organization has recognized burnout as an illness, “an occupational syndrome caused by chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

The impact of all this stress is reduced retention, lower productivity, disengaged workers, and increased absenteeism.

Banish Burnout™: Move from Stress to Success gives organizations a proven, behavior-based system to strengthen retention, elevate productivity, and build a resilient, high-performing workforce. Participants learn how to identify the real drivers of burnout, interrupt unproductive stress reactions, and adopt healthier, more effective behavior patterns that improve decision-making and team dynamics.

Rather than offering surface-level “feel-good” tips, this program delivers practical, research-backed tools leaders and teams can apply immediately. Attendees walk away with a stronger capacity to regulate stress, communicate effectively, set healthier boundaries, and sustain performance during high-pressure moments.

Key business outcomes:

• Higher retention and engagement
• Improved productivity and focus
• Emotionally intelligent managers who prevent burnout before it starts
• Healthier, more resilient teams that drive long-term performance

Banish Burnout Toolkit™ workbooks can be made available for all participants.

To extend the learning, check out the new Banish Burnout™ Academy Coaching Programs

Recruit to Retain in the Age of AI: The Power of Human Connection 

Organizations are investing heavily in AI to recruit faster, yet many leaders are still asking the same question:

Why are our best employees leaving?

Technology can streamline recruiting and improve efficiency, but it cannot replace trust, empathy, purpose, or meaningful human connection. Those are still the reasons people choose to stay.

Drawing on more than 20 years as a technology recruiter, along with her backgrounds in corporate IT, management consulting, and leadership development, Janice Litvin offers a fresh perspective on one of today’s biggest business challenges: retaining the people organizations worked so hard to hire.

Through her signature Human Path to Retention™ Framework, Janice demonstrates that retention is not an HR metric. It is the accumulated result of every interaction employees have with an organization, from the first recruiting conversation through culture, leadership, and everyday experiences at work.

This engaging, research-based keynote equips audiences with practical strategies to strengthen retention by focusing on the three human elements that matter most.

The Human Path to Retention™ Framework

Build Relationships

Recruiting

Retention begins long before an employee’s first day. Learn how authentic communication, meaningful candidate experiences, and purpose-driven recruiting attract people who are more likely to stay.

Walk Your Talk

Culture

Culture is not what an organization says it values. It’s what employees experience every day. Discover how leaders can align behaviors with values to build trust, engagement, and a workplace where people feel they belong.

Develop People

Leadership

Employees don’t just leave organizations. They leave managers. Explore how emotionally intelligent leadership, coaching, recognition, and professional development create committed, high-performing teams.

These three pillars make up Janice’s Human Path to Retention™ Framework, a practical roadmap that helps organizations recruit exceptional talent, create cultures where people thrive, and develop leaders employees choose to follow.

Rather than asking, “How can AI help us hire faster?” this keynote challenges organizations to ask a more important question:

“How can we use AI to create more time for meaningful human connection?”

Audiences leave with practical strategies they can implement immediately to strengthen recruiting, cultivate healthy workplace cultures, develop people-focused leaders, and improve long-term retention.

Learning Outcomes

After this keynote, participants will be able to:

• Apply the Human Path to Retention™ Framework to strengthen recruiting, culture, and leadership across the entire employee experience.
• Leverage AI without sacrificing the human connection by creating meaningful candidate and employee experiences that build trust, engagement, and belonging.
• Develop people-focused leaders who foster purpose, emotional intelligence, and workplace cultures that increase engagement and improve long-term retention.

The Bottom Line

AI may help you hire faster, but human connection leads to retention.

To download Janice’s Top Tips to Recruit to Retain in the Age of AI, click here