Leading from Within: Mastering Your Energy
As the main stage session.
For HR and people leadersYou are holding everyone.
You are holding everyone.
Who is holding you?
Alison Canavan works with the people responsible for everyone else's wellbeing, and with the organizations that need more than another wellbeing initiative.
The pressure
HR carries the organization'semotional weight.
The restructure, the grievance, the person who is not coping, the leader who will not hear it. You hold all of it, usually without anywhere to put it down.
And you are expected to fix burnout in others while running on the same empty tank. You book the speakers. You run the programs. You are rarely the one they are for.
What changes, for your peopleMost wellbeing initiatives fail
Most wellbeing initiatives fail
for the same reason.
They treat the symptom, arrive without credibility, and ask already-exhausted people to add something to their day.
The Energy Bank Method starts somewhere different. Energy, not time, is the resource everything runs on. It can be spent, saved and invested. That framing survives contact with a skeptical room, because it is about performance as much as wellbeing, and it gives people a shared language they keep using after the event.
What organizations get
- A keynote that lands with people who dismiss wellbeing content
- A framework teams can use the same week, not a theory they forget by lunch
- Language leaders can use about capacity without it becoming an HR issue
- Something that continues after the room empties, through the EBM Coin and the journal
What changes, for you
Alison speaks to this directly, because she has been the person holding everyone. The session makes space for the people who usually hold it, without singling anyone out.
What organizers say
She connected immediately with our contractor audience, engaging them in a way that felt authentic, approachable and energizing. Attendees left inspired, recharged and motivated to lead with greater purpose.
Travis PrattExecutive Director, Mechanical Contractors Association of America
I've hosted hundreds of events over my 17 year career with YPO. I think Aly is one of the best resources we've ever had. Her rating was a perfect 10.
Melanie MeyerExecutive Director, YPO St. Louis
Thank you for choosing such an amazing speaker today. She was incredible. I got stopped by almost every person that left with the same sentiments. Many said that this was one of the best events they have ever been to.
EO St. LouisEntrepreneurs' Organization
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She has stood in rooms like yours.
The keynote
Any of the 3, shaped to the audience. For HR and People and Culture conferences, this pairing works best.
The Energy Bank Method: Building Habits for Sustainable High Performance
As a workshop for leadership teams.
Meet Alison
She has done the work she speaks about.
From the world's runways to the world's stages, it was Alison's own journey through burnout and recovery that shaped the method she now brings to organizations.
That is why it lands with an audience. It was lived before it was taught.
Read Alison's story
Author
Speaker
The Currency of Connection
What's your EBM?
Energy Being Moved. Each coin travels from hand to hand, carrying one idea: every interaction is an energetic exchange. The first coins are going out into the world now. Watch the ripple begin.
37Cities reached
44Ripples of kindness
Give your people an experience they carry home.
Tell us about your event and audience. Alison and her team will be in touch to talk dates, fit and how to make the message land.
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