Caroline Dowd-Higgins
Caroline Dowd-Higgins is a certified executive coach, bestselling author, and globally recognized speaker helping organizations banish burnout and reignite human energy at work.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins Booking & Availability
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Corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events and virtual programs may be available depending on the engagement.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins Keynote Topics & Programs
Caroline Dowd-Higgins speaks on burnout, business, corporate culture, employee engagement, leadership and mental health through keynote presentations and related programs. Additional themes are also available.
Burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm have created a human energy crisis at work, and your highest achievers are often the ones running closest to empty. The World Health Organization calls burnout a workplace issue, not a self-care issue. You can’t yoga your way out of a culture that’s burning you down. The fix has to be built into how we work.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins knows burnout from the inside. It didn’t happen on the opera stage, where rest was built into every production. It happened in a 90-hour-a-week executive role. Drawing on that lived experience and her work with organizations including Lilly, Salesforce, and Sanofi, Caroline shares a practical triage model to banish burnout: urgent steps to recover, strategic questions that cut the work that doesn’t matter, and experiments that help teams discover what really works. Because you shouldn’t have to choose between doing your best work and living your best life.
Audience Takeaways from The Wellness Advantage
- Trade the overachiever identity for a high-achiever mindset that gets results without burning out.
- Use a simple triage model – urgent, important, long term – to recover from burnout and prevent it.
- Create white space to think, strategize, and do your most creative work.
- Ask three strategic questions that separate impactful work from busywork.
- Test-drive human-centered solutions through short experiments before writing new policy.
- Reclaim rest and play as fuel for peak performance, so you can do your best work and live your best life.
Ideal for: The Wellness Advantage
Rapidly evolving organizations, fatigued teams and cultures, companies that have gone through a merger or acquisition, teams looking to reset and establish a new tone and do their best work.
Your highest performers are the ones running closest to empty, and they’re the last ones to say so. In healthcare, financial services, law, and beyond, staffing pressure and regulatory complexity aren’t going back to normal, and AI is raising the bar faster than most cultures can absorb. Engagement scores tell leaders something is off. They don’t tell you what to do about it on Monday morning.
In The Capacity Advantage, Caroline Dowd-Higgins shows leaders how to trade temporary relief for real restoration – designed into the way work runs, before their best people break. Caroline introduces her See It, Design It, Protect It framework and Achievement Intelligence, the human guardrail every organization needs as AI raises what’s possible.
Leaders leave with a practical, structural plan to protect their stars and the high-potential talent watching them – because your best people shouldn’t have to run on empty to prove they belong.
Audience Takeaways from The Capacity Advantage
- Spot Silent Burnout: Recognize the hidden signals in your highest performers before they show up as an exit interview.
- Restoration Over Relief: Use a simple test to tell the perks that fade from the systems that last.
- Achievement Intelligence: Build the human guardrail every AI rollout needs, so “more” doesn’t break your best people.
- See It, Design It, Protect It: Apply a Monday-morning framework and the Capacity Check to build restorative culture instead of relying on perks.
- Protect Your Pipeline: Show high-potential talent that success doesn’t require self-destruction, so they don’t quietly opt out.
Ideal for: The Capacity Advantage
High performers, C-Suite leaders, managers, emerging leaders, legacy leaders, sales leaders, associations, and franchises. This program can also be customized for all-hands events or company-wide meetings… because you don’t need a title to be a leader.
Gallup reports that only 20% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity. Most of us didn’t lose our spark in one dramatic moment. We lost it one “I’ll have fun when…” at a time, until we were living life in black and white.
In The Joy Advantage, Caroline Dowd-Higgins makes the business case for joy as a performance and profitability strategy. Drawing on research into the three ingredients of true fun – playfulness, connection, and flow – and her own journey from opera stages to corporate burnout and back to joy, Caroline delivers a highly interactive experience with practical tools to reclaim focus, spark creativity, and bring more energy to work. Because fun isn’t the opposite of serious work. It’s what makes serious work sustainable.
Audience Takeaways from The Joy Advantage
- Redefine fun as a feeling, not an activity, built from playfulness, connection, and flow.
- Make the business case for joy: engaged teams are more productive, more profitable, and more likely to stay.
- Reclaim your flow by trading multitasking for singletasking and taming digital distraction.
- Bring small joy moves to your team that spark creativity, connection, and innovation.
- Break the unwritten rules that say fun has to be earned.
- Commit to one joyful action this week and bring that energy to your best work and your best life.
Ideal for: The Joy Advantage
Rapidly evolving organizations and industries, fatigued teams and cultures, organizations that have recently gone through a merger or acquisition, and multi-generational teams looking to reset the tone and come together to do their best work and live their best lives.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins Biography & Credentials
Caroline Dowd-Higgins brings the room to life with contagious energy and a mission to help organizations end burnout, reclaim vitality, and build thriving workplaces. A dynamic speaker, certified executive coach, and bestselling author, Caroline’s high-impact keynotes are rooted in two decades of leadership experience inside large organizations—and her own lived experience as a burnout survivor.
Whether addressing top-tier executives or frontline teams, Caroline delivers a wake-up call to today’s human energy crisis with practical solutions that inspire sustainable productivity, wellbeing, and a renewed sense of purpose. Caroline Dowd-Higgins is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Caroline Dowd-Higgins’ fees.
Want to book Caroline Dowd-Higgins for an event?
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-995-0905 to book Caroline Dowd-Higgins for a keynote speech, corporate event, leadership program, workshop, fireside chat, virtual appearance, or other private or professional event.
Our team will help confirm Caroline Dowd-Higgins’s availability, speaking fee, travel requirements, and fit for your audience. To start the booking process, please share your event date, location, audience size, event format, and the type of presentation you are looking for.
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From Burnout to Brilliance
Caroline Dowd-Higgins has spent over 20 years in the business trenches as an executive leader in large organizations; and she knows firsthand the toll burnout takes on individuals and companies. After hitting her own breaking point, she transformed her experience into a mission: to help people reignite their energy, rediscover their purpose, and create workplaces where humans can thrive.
She’s now a globally sought-after keynote speaker, talent development consultant, and certified executive coach helping teams navigate constant change, overcome workplace overwhelming, and achieve sustainable success.
A Trusted Voice in Organizational Wellbeing
Caroline’s insights have been trusted by companies around the globe including Meta, Salesforce, Sanofi, Rolls-Royce, and Eli Lilly. She delivers engaging, actionable experiences that elevate human performance and workplace culture.
Her books, This Is Not The Career I Ordered™ and Your Career Advantage, have empowered thousands of careerists worldwide to take control of their professional lives and live with more joy and vitality.
Podcaster, Author, & Leading Content Creator
Caroline is the host of the award-winning podcast Your Working Life, where she’s interviewed luminaries like Whitney Johnson, Chip Conley, and Marcus Buckingham. Her blog, “This is Not the Career I Ordered™,” has become a go-to resource for professionals seeking real-life tools for career growth, wellbeing, and leadership. A Top Leadership Development Voice on LinkedIn, Caroline’s content reaches a global audience hungry for authentic, practical strategies to thrive at work.
Coach to Leaders and Rising Talent
Through her human-centered coaching practice, Caroline helps individuals tap into their strengths, overcome burnout, and set actionable goals to reignite both life and career. Her coaching spaces are grounded in psychological safety, empowering clients to reflect, refocus, and reignite their purpose.
