Dr. Chloe Carmichael Speaking Topics

• Navigating Sensitive Topics In The Workplace

  Today’s workplace requires employees to navigate sensitive topics with precision, emotional intelligence, and professionalism. In this timely keynote, Dr. Chloe equips leaders and teams with psychologically grounded tools and techniques to communicate clearly, reduce unnecessary conflict, and preserve trust—without walking on eggshells. Based on her new book, Can I Say That? Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly, this talk helps teams and organizations foster thoughtful dialogue while maintaining strong culture, morale, and performance.

  WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:

  Attendees learn over a dozen practical tools for both speaking up and exercising self-restraint in high-stakes workplace conversations, including:

  • Reflective Listening

    • Learn how to reduce defensiveness and escalation in real time by helping others feel accurately heard —leading to clearer communication, faster alignment, and fewer misunderstandings.

  • Owning Past Self-Censorship

    • Gain a way to acknowledge prior silence without losing credibility, allowing you to speak up with greater clarity, confidence, and professional authority going forward.

  • Thought Replacement

    • Develop the ability to interrupt emotionally charged thinking in real time, helping you respond calmly, reduce escalation, and model emotionally regulated communication for others.

• 5 Strategies for 1st Year Success - and Happiness!

  Providing first-year attorneys with the steps to succeed is a win-win for both the law firm and the first years. This 45-minute workshop helps first years to compassionately recognize areas for support; and provides them with practical tools to create empowerment through proactive ownership of the growth process.

  Topics include:

  • Normalizing a first-year learning curve, while emphasizing the importance of persistence
  • Maximizing benefits from time with partners and mentors
  • Managing perfectionism
  • Intrafirm networking
  • Self-care for resiliency

  This workshop is 45 minutes, plus an optional 15-minute question/answer period. A complimentary one-hour book club discussion is included with an optional book purchase.

• Stress Management for Lawyers

  Dr. Chloe Carmichael is a clinical psychologist, USA Today bestselling author, and an expert in anxiety, stress management, and communication.

  Dr. Chloe helps lawyers and their teams to manage stress to increase fulfillment as well as productivity.

• How to Talk About Anxiety So Youth Will Listen

  Educators have long understood what the Surgeon General's report recently confirmed: Our nation's youth are struggling with record levels of anxiety. While educators are not supposed to function as mental health providers, they are often on the frontlines with students having important conversations about anxiety. Educators frequently benefit from having tools to manage their own anxiety, as well as increasing their toolbox of practical, solution-focused techniques to share with students.

  Dr. Chloe is a relatable, knowledgeable source offering practical and engaging techniques to help educators prepare for important teachable moments about anxiety. This talk tackles topics including:

  • Learning about the healthy function of anxiety, which is to stimulate preparation behaviors
  • Managing social anxiety over a sudden return to group settings
  • Applying practical tools to convert anxiety into constructive energy for working towards academic or personal goals

  This talk is an upbeat way to acknowledge the challenges students and educators are facing, while simultaneously reinforcing strengths and self-efficacy through hands-on activities and memorable takeaways that are geared to build useful skills for students and educators alike!

• Goal Getter

  Most driven, intelligent people are at least reasonably good at achieving goals. However, sometimes they can get so busy that they lose touch with the emotions around their goals. This can lead to procrastination, burnout, or a lack of fulfillment. This workshop guides attendees to choose a goal and break it down into actionable steps and timelines. Next, attendees will be guided to go beyond traditional goal attainment approaches through exercises to increase emotional awareness and then plan targeted, customized self-care behaviors along their goal path. Layering in the key component of emotional awareness and then planning helpful self-care behaviors not only increases productivity and longevity, it also boosts fulfillment and facilitates deeper connections with others.

  Takeaways:

  • Attendees will have an action plan for a personal or professional goal with specific objectives to advance them towards their goal

  • Attendees will have a healthy awareness of both the positive and negative emotions related to the individual objectives and the goal overall

  • Attendees will have personalized, healthy self-care plans around their individual objectives and goals in order to A) reduce their odds of procrastinating or burnout; and B) increase their sense of personal fulfillment as they pursue their goal

• Stress Management for Leaders

  Leaders are typically willing and able to continuously take on new responsibilities, and they are often ready to embrace situations that take them out of their comfort zone. This can be a strength, but it can also become a vulnerability in terms of stress. This workshop helps to reframe stress as a potentially healthy opportunity for growth, while also offering practical ways to reduce or manage stress in the moment. This talk also provides strategies to put boundaries around stress and become intentional about which stressors we're willing to take on as challenges, and which ones we're better off delegating or eliminating altogether. This workshop encompasses both personal and professional stressors, and of course can be customized to be specific to the unique life situations of individual audiences.

  Takeaways:

  • Attendees will learn techniques to relax the body and mind to combat the unhealthy effects of stress

  • Attendees will learn strategies to proactively manage sources of stress and prioritize stressors that are growth opportunities while decreasing investment in stressors that don't actually offer a good ROI

  • Attendees will explore their relationship with stress and learn to reframe it as part of a healthy growth pattern, thereby reducing "stress about stress"

  This talk can also be tweaked for audiences who don’t specifically identify as leaders, with the title, Stress Management to Live Your Best Life.

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