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Sarah D. Carlson

Speaker on Self-Advocacy and Human Potential; Author of "The Five Principles of Effective Self-Advocacy"; Harvard Law JD; Former Wall Street Attorney & Professor

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Hillsborough, NC, USA

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Live Event: $5,000 - $10,000 Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000 More Fee Info

Categories:

Author, Belonging, Business Coaching, Diversity & Inclusion, Empowerment, Female Leadership, Future of Work, Futurism, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Leadership, Neurodiversity, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Professors, Women, Women's Empowerment

Sarah D. Carlson Biography

The biggest threat to organizational performance isn’t AI. It’s underutilized people. The system that produced their best people was designed to make them reliable. In the age of AI, reliable is exactly what’s being replaced.

After Harvard Law and an early career on Wall Street, Sarah Carlson walked away to live in a tent in Haiti — not because she failed, but because she needed to know what it looks like to fully use your gifts. She spent the next decade leading professional development and teaching at Duke and Emory, watching the same formation failure she’d escaped play out in thousands of talented people in real time.

Nobody was teaching the skills to fix it. So she built the framework herself. In her book, "The Five Principles of Effective Self-Advocacy," she provides a systemic diagnosis of what high achievement culture costs us and a practical path to reclaiming it.

Carlson speaks to leaders and organizations ready to stop leaving their best people half-deployed — and her audiences leave with the language, clarity, and tools to do something about it immediately.

“I walked out knowing exactly how to make my mark in my organization — and finally feeling empowered to do it.” — Paula Feldmeier, Macon, Georgia

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Sarah D. Carlson Speaking Topics

The Half-Deployed Organization: Your Most Underutilized Assets Are Already on Payroll

Organizations that fail to fully deploy their most valuable people don't just leave money on the table. In the age of AI, they risk becoming irrelevant. As AI absorbs the predictable work organizations were built to produce, the only competitive advantage left is fully unleashed human contribution, and most organizations have no idea how to access it. Drawing from The Five Principles of Effective Self-Advocacy, Carlson opens with a live Self-Advocacy Assessment that shows leaders and teams exactly where their own contribution is being lost, then gives them the tools to close that gap and fully deploy the human potential their organization already has.

ATTENDEE RESULTS
- Identify who is underutilized, where the gaps are, and what it's actually costing the organization
- Apply the Five Principles to unlock contribution at every level
- Build a culture where people make the contribution only they can make — instead of quietly disengaging
- Lead in the age of AI by developing the one thing algorithms cannot replace: fully claimed human beings
You Can't Automate a Fully Claimed Human: The Power of Self-Advocacy in the Age of AI

The institutions that produce our most talented people aren't broken. They're working exactly as designed, optimizing for compliance and employability instead of helping someone discover who they actually are or what they're capable of contributing. The result is a generation of high achievers living lives of quiet, successful desperation, inside organizations full of people who were never taught to fully claim and deploy their greatest gifts. As AI takes over the work that training was built to produce, that gap stops being a personal tragedy and becomes a strategic one. Sarah D. Carlson opens with a live Self-Advocacy Assessment, so every high achiever in the room starts with a clear picture of their own gap before the framework gives them the tools to close it.

ATTENDEE RESULTS
- Their Self-Advocacy Score, including their strongest and weakest of the Five Principles
- Clarity on what high achievement training polished away, and what remains underneath it that makes them genuinely valuable
- How to show up with integrity, without overcorrecting into aggression or disappearing into compliance
- Specific strategies and next steps to make the impact that only they can in their organization

We Don't Have a Burnout Problem. We Have a Self-Erasure Problem.

Burnout doesn't mean you worked too hard. It means you've been working with your non-dominant hand for too long. Every woman in the room has tried the solutions, the wellness apps, the resilience training, the boundaries workshop, and she's still exhausted, because overwork was never the real diagnosis. The deepest fatigue comes from misalignment, from disappearing yourself and your truest values to survive in systems that reward it. You cannot rest your way back from that. This talk names what's actually happening and delivers the framework to reverse it. Women leave with the tools to claim more of who they are, where they are, and their organizations are better for it.

ATTENDEE RESULTS
- Understand how systemic incentives reward self-erasure, and what it's costing her and her organization
- Apply the Five Principles to reclaim voice, capacity, and direction
- Lead from who they actually are, not the muted version they were trained to be
- Fully claim their voice and gifts, and bring their full contribution to the organizations they serve
What School Never Taught You: Why You Can Argue Any Case But Your Own

Quiet desperation is epidemic among high achievers — and it has a root cause nobody talks about. The institutions that train our most talented professionals teach them to research, argue, and comply. Nobody teaches them to advocate for themselves.

The result: talented, credentialed professionals who can argue any case but their own — silencing the very voice the profession and the world needs most. By the time it shows up as burnout, quiet disengagement, or departure from work they once loved, it's already been building for years. This keynote names the problem, delivers the framework, and sends people out of the room knowing exactly how to claim their voice and make the contribution only they can make. This isn't inspiration. It's the skill they should have been taught.

ATTENDEE RESULTS
- Understand how systemic incentives reward self-erasure — and what it's costing them and their organization
- Apply the Five Principles to speak up with clarity and integrity
- Communicate their value to any audience and stop letting fear run their career
- Fully claim their voice and gifts — and make the contribution only they can make

Sarah D. Carlson Videos

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How do I book Sarah D. Carlson to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Sarah D. Carlson for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Sarah D. Carlson, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Sarah D. Carlson or any other speaker of your choice.
What are the speaker fees for Sarah D. Carlson

Speaking fees for Sarah D. Carlson, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Sarah D. Carlson are under $10,000 for live events and under $10,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Sarah D. Carlson, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
What topics does Sarah D. Carlson speak about?

Sarah D. Carlson is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Author, Belonging, Business Coaching, Diversity & Inclusion, Empowerment, Female Leadership, Future of Work, Futurism, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Leadership, Neurodiversity, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Professors, Women, Women's Empowerment
Where does Sarah D. Carlson travel from?

Sarah D. Carlson generally travels from Hillsborough, NC, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
Who is Sarah D. Carlson’s agent?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Sarah D. Carlson for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Sarah D. Carlson for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Sarah D. Carlson or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Sarah D. Carlson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Half-Deployed Organization: Your Most Underutilized Assets Are Already on Payroll, You Can't Automate a Fully Claimed Human: The Power of Self-Advocacy in the Age of AI, We Don't Have a Burnout Problem. We Have a Self-Erasure Problem. and What School Never Taught You: Why You Can Argue Any Case But Your Own. The estimated speaking fee range to book Sarah D. Carlson for your event is available upon request. Sarah D. Carlson generally travels from Hillsborough, NC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Devika Brij Maurice, Kris Boesch, Cheryl Cran, Corrie LoGiudice and Lindsay MacMillan. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sarah D. Carlson for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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The Half-Deployed Organization: Your Most Underutilized Assets Are Already on Payroll

You Can't Automate a Fully Claimed Human: The Power of Self-Advocacy in the Age of AI

We Don't Have a Burnout Problem. We Have a Self-Erasure Problem.

What School Never Taught You: Why You Can Argue Any Case But Your Own

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