Speaker. Storyteller. Rebalance Guide.

Lead Without
Losing Yourself

Today’s most driven professionals are achieving more than ever, yet many feel exhausted, misaligned, or quietly burned out by success itself.

I speak to leaders, teams, and organizations navigating growth, complexity, and change. My goal is to help them rethink how they lead, perform, and define success.

This is not about balance as a finish line. It is about rebalancing as a leadership capability.

What Audiences Experience

My keynotes and workshops combine:

  • Candid storytelling and real-world leadership lessons
  • Research-backed insight grounded in executive experience
  • Practical frameworks audiences can apply immediately
  • Humor and humanity that make hard truths easier to hear

Audiences do not just feel inspired. They leave with clarity, language, and permission to lead differently.

Signature Message

The Rebalancing Act: Leading Without Losing Yourself
Redefine balance. Reclaim your energy. Lead with purpose.
In this keynote, I draw on lived executive experience, research, and candid storytelling to show leaders how rebalancing works in practice. Rather than asking leaders to do less, I help them lead differently, especially in high-pressure seasons.

Don’t Burn Out Your Best People: A New Leadership Playbook

A leadership-focused session examining how everyday habits, cultural norms, and unspoken expectations drive burnout, and what leaders can change to protect engagement and retention.

Success That Matters: Rebalancing Ambition in High-Pressure Lives

A keynote for high achievers navigating the tension between external success and internal fulfillment, offering a grounded approach to redefining success without starting over.

Real Presence: Influence from the Inside Out

A practical reframing of executive presence that helps leaders influence with clarity, confidence, and alignment, without performance or ego.

Formats & Audiences

I deliver:

  • Keynotes, in-person and virtual
  • Leadership workshops
  • Executive retreats
  • Conference breakout sessions
  • Fireside chats

For Individuals:
The Rebalancing Act:
Juggling Life Without Dropping Your Sanity

Redefine balance. Reclaim your energy. Lead with purpose.

This flagship keynote delivers a powerful mindset shift for ambitious professionals who feel the pressure to do it all—and hide the cracks while doing it. With warmth, candor, and real-world strategies, Carol Enneking shows top performers how to rebalance without sacrificing excellence.

In a world where high achievement often leads to hidden burnout, this keynote offers permission—and a plan—to lead differently. Carol shares her own journey through the highs and costs of leadership, along with insights from 70+ professionals featured in her book, The Rebalancing Act.

Through relatable storytelling and research-backed tools, audiences will learn how to:

  • Identify and interrupt default leadership behaviors that drive over-functioning and exhaustion
  • Reclaim time and energy during high-pressure seasons—without losing ground
  • Build a personalized Rebalancing Blueprint™ to stay aligned, focused, and grounded in what matters most

Ideal for leadership teams, high-potential groups, women’s networks, and burnout-prone industries, this keynote is a reset button for the modern workplace.

Attendees walk away not only re-energized—but equipped with practical steps to lead with greater clarity, resilience, and fulfillment.

Format: 60 minute keynote, and/or 120-180 minute workshop; may be delivered live or virtually

For Organizations:
The Rebalancing Act For Leadership Teams:
A Reset for Culture, Clarity, and Team Performance.

Lead with purpose. Communicate with intention. Strengthen what matters most.

When leaders are stretched thin, teams feel it. Culture drifts. Communication breaks down. Performance suffers.

In a world where high-achieving cultures often lead to unexpected attrition and hidden burnout, this keynote offers a reset for leaders to chart a new course. Carol’s insights through her work with 150+ companies in these high-stakes environments provide perspectives on the unintended consequences that can derail a company’s best laid plans. Through these experiences, along with insights from over 70 leaders she interviewed for her book, The Rebalancing Act, Carol also shares success stories abou what works and unlocks effective strategies to help leaders chart a more effective, sustainable path.

This practical, interactive keynote helps leaders rebalance how they lead—moving toward culture-building leadership rooted in clarity, connection, and intention.

Participants will:

  • Reframe their leadership to focus on people, not just output
  • Learn actionable ways to model healthy communication and team clarity
  • Build their own plan to lead with greater agility, trust, and alignment

Ideal for people leaders and mid-level managers, senior leadership teams at strategy offsites or retreats, HR, OD, and cross-functional teams needing realignment, this keynote reconnects audiences with what fuels culture, trust, and team performance.

Format: 60 minute keynote, and/or 120-180 minute workshop; may be delivered live or virtually

AGILE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION:
Rebalancing leadership and management to build cultures that thrive.
Shifting leadership from task execution to people-first impact.

Move from reactive management to values-based leadership. Strengthen communication and culture through practical strategies. Create a personalized action plan for agile, sustainable leadership.

In today’s evolving workplace, leadership isn’t about control—it’s about clarity, communication, and people.

This session helps leaders rebalance their approach—moving from task-checking to culture-shaping. Carol brings tools and insights that help leaders better engage, influence, and inspire.

 Participants will:

  • Distinguish between managing work and leading people
  • Learn tools to improve communication and trust
  • Walk away with a practical, people-first leadership plan

Ideal Audiences:

  • Directors, managers, and team leads
  • High-potential or emerging leaders
  • Companies navigating change or culture initiatives
  • Leadership development program participants

Format: 60 minute keynote, and/or 120-180 minute workshop; may be delivered live or virtually 

REAL PRESENCE:
Influence from the Inside Out
Executive presence isn’t about ego—it’s about alignment.

Lead with clarity. Communicate with conviction.

In high-stakes environments, presence is often mistaken for charisma or control. But true executive presence comes from something deeper: self-awareness, clarity, and the ability to lead from your values—not your volume.

In this keynote, Carol Enneking redefines presence for modern leaders. Drawing from decades in corporate leadership and talent development, she offers a grounded, practical framework for showing up with confidence, without posturing or performance.

This session helps rising and senior leaders:

  • Develop a clear, compelling leadership narrative that connects across all levels
  • Command a room with calm, grounded authority—not dominance or ego
  • Refine communication for moments that matter: boardrooms, presentations, critical conversations

Whether you’re mentoring others or stepping into greater visibility yourself, this keynote equips you to influence with authenticity—and lead with presence that lasts.

Ideal Audiences:

  • Senior and emerging leaders stepping into more visibility
  • Women in leadership development cohorts
  • Conference breakout or keynote audiences
  • Anyone navigating high-stakes leadership moments

THE POWER SHIFT:
From Overlooked to Influential

Rebalancing voice, value, and visibility to lead with intention.

Step into visibility. Own your value. Amplify your impact.

Power doesn’t have to mean ego, authority, or control. It can mean presence. Choice. Influence. And the courage to lead from your values—even in rooms that weren’t built for you.

In this keynote, Carol Enneking helps leaders at all levels break through the invisible dynamics that keep them quiet, second-guessing, or stuck in the background. Drawing on decades of executive experience, Carol offers both practical tools and empowering mindset shifts to help professionals step fully into their leadership—without needing to be loud, perfect, or performative.

This keynote equips audiences to:

  • Identify the patterns—internal and external—that can hold them back
  • Learn how to advocate for themselves with clarity and confidence
  • Cultivate relationships that open doors and elevate impact

Ideal for those who are navigating a new leadership role, feeling overlooked in their current role, or are ready to stop playing small, this talk offers a clear and empowering path forward—one rooted in intention, not ego.

Format: 60 minute keynote, and/or 120-180 minute workshop; may be delivered live or virtually 

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Testimonials

Carol is a powerful and impactful speaker. Her ability to share personal stories while also giving an audience tangible takeaways to
improve their lives at work and home comes from decades of
personal experience, challenges, and victories.
Tricia Brouk, Award winning director, author, producer and Founder of The Big Talk Academy

Carol Enneking was an outstanding speaker at our recent leadership conference. She engaged our leaders through meaningful reflection, discovery, discussion, and application of ideas around culture and leadership. Carol reinforced our two central themes, talent reviews and engagement survey results, with clarity and impact, leaving our leaders inspired and better prepared to take action.

Steve Hernandez, Vice President, Organizational Development, PetroLedger
Carol stands out among speakers because she relates with audiences through her vulnerability, real world examples, and personal anecdotes.
Laurie Kosek, VP-HR and entrepreneur through her successful Rebalancing Act™️️️
Great event! Just what I needed to hear right now. Thanks for sharing your critical insights!
Shawn Yates, Engineering & Technology Manager, Baker Hughes
Carol’s speaking engagement on unlocking career growth and fulfillment was nothing short of exceptional. Her personable and down-to-earth approach, combined with her clear and understandable delivery, provided our employees with extremely practical guidance, solutions, and tools. With over 300 employees attending her session, Carol’s impact was truly remarkable.

Beyond her outstanding performance on the day of the event, Carol proved to be a true and trusted partner in the preparation process. She was patient and took the time to meet with HR Business Partners and members of the Exployee Experience team to ensure her messages resonated with our employees and met the session’s objectives. The session handout and post-session handouts she provided have been invaluable for continued learning.

I highly recommend Carol as a speaker. She is a wonderful, knowledgeable partner and a pleasure to work with.

Pooja Patankar, HR Talent Management at Phillips 66